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Civil War and Reconstruction Review

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the 13th amendment accomplish?

a)

Abolished slavery

b)

Grants citizenship & equal protection

c)

Guarantees voting rights

2.

What did the 14th amendment accomplish?

a)

Freedom of religion

b)

Grants citizenship and equal protection

c)

Made slavery illegal

d)

Guarantees voting rights

3.

What did the 15th amendment accomplish?

a)

Grants citizenship & equal protection

b)

Right to bear arms

c)

Bans slavery

d)

Voting rights for African American men

4.

He would have said, "It is more important to preserve the Union and reconcile rather than punish the South"

a)

Frederick Douglas

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Robert E. Lee

5.

These were used to take away the rights of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.

a)

Amendments

b)

White Codes

c)

Black Codes

d)

Civil Rights

6.

The following group provided aid (help) to former slaves during Reconstruction.

a)

Black Codes

b)

KKK

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

7.

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

a)

Black Codes

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Carpetbaggers

8.

Agricultural & economic practice where a land owner allows a tenant farmer to work his land for a share of his crop

a)

subsistence farming

b)

sharecropping

c)

carpetbagger

d)

slavery

9.

Many African American men were elected to the U.S. Congress for the first time in the South once the 15th amendment was passed.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What was the order given on Jan. 1, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves in rebellious states?

a)

Ft. Sumter

b)

Battle of Bull Run

c)

Gettysburg Address

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

11.
The first battle of the American Civil War and signaled the start of the war. 
a)
Ft. Sumter
b)
Gettysburg
c)
Antietam
d)
Bull Run
12.

A 3-day battle that was the turning point battle in the North. The Union Army won.

a)

Battle of Gettysburg

b)

Antietam

c)

Bull Run

d)

Ft. Sumter

13.
The place where Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
a)
Appomattox Courthouse
b)
Ft. Sumter
c)
Bull Run
d)
Missouri Compromise of 1850
14.
The agreement where Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state to keep balance in the Union. 
a)
Compromise of 1850
b)
Missouri Compromise of 1820
c)
Fugitive Slave Act
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
15.
Agreement where California becomes a free state and the territories of Utah & New Mexico get popular sovereignty, (state gets to choose to be slave or free)
a)
Missouri Compromise of 1820
b)
Dred Scott Decision
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Fugitive Slave Act
16.
A law passed, which gave southern slaveholders legal means to capture slaves even in "free" territories. 
a)
Fugitive Slave Act
b)
Dred Scott Decision
c)
Gettysburg Address
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
17.

A landmark court decision which said that African Americans were not considered U.S. citizens.

a)

Dred Scott Case

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Marbury v. Madison

d)

14th amendment

18.

This allowed citizens in Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty.

a)

Freedom to chose Act

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Dred Scott Decision

d)

Ft. Sumter