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Civil War & Reconstruction Unit Test Review

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the North in the Civil War?

a)

Well Trained Army

b)

Railroads

c)

Industrialization

d)

Population

2.

Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the south:

a)

Commitment to the Cause

b)

Defensive War

c)

Population

d)

Better Trained Army

3.

What were the major causes of the Civil War? (Select all that apply)

a)

Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws

b)

Westward Expansion

c)

Slavery

d)

Lincoln winning the election of 1860

e)

All of the above

4.

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually freed?

a)

Only slaves in the border states

b)

Only slaves in Western Territories

c)

All of the slaves in the North and South

d)

Only the slaves in the Confederacy, so none of them

5.

What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.

a)

The 16th Amendment

b)

The 13th Amendment

c)

The 14th Amendment

d)

The 15th Amendment

6.

What practice was established in America by the landmark Supreme Court Case Plessy Versus Ferguson?

a)

Slaves were property and not citizens

b)

Separate but equal is equality

c)

Voting rights for Freedpeople

d)

Literacy tests and poll taxes were legal

7.

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is

a)

A policy that gave Freed Slaves who helped the North during the war 40 acres and a mule

b)

Allowing Freed Slaves the ability to work land without having to buy it or pay for their supplies to help them get ahead after Slavery ended

c)

A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy landowners and tied to the land

d)

A system from the Freedmen's Bureau to allow economically disadvantaged people in the south the opportunity to own land

8.

What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Separate but Equal Doctrine

b)

Black Codes

c)

Sharecropping

d)

The Grandfather laws

9.

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment

a)

The 13th Amendment

b)

The 14th Amendment

c)

The 15th Amendment

d)

The 16th Amendment

10.

Who were the Redeemers?

a)

Radical Republicans who wanted to reunite the Union after the Civil War.

b)

Southern Democrats who used coupons.

c)

Southern Democrats who wanted to bring the progress of Reconstruction to an end.

d)

Radical Republicans who wanted to profit off the South's loss in the Civil War and punish the former members of the Confederacy.

11.

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

a)

He was elected for three terms as President, which is unconstitutional.

b)

He fired a cabinet member without Congress's permission.

c)

He allowed the ex-Confederates back into elected office.

d)

He beat a member of Congress over the issue of slavery.

12.

How did landowners keep sharecroppers in debt?

a)

Landowners did not pay the sharecroppers.

b)

Overpaid the sharecroppers.

c)

Created contracts that were impossible for the sharecroppers to fulfill.

d)

Used the 13th Amendment as a form of punishment to keep Freedpeople in line.

13.

What was the biggest benefit the Freedmen's Bureau provided to the Freedpeople?

a)

Jobs

b)

Education

c)

40 Acres and a mule

d)

Help interpreting contracts

14.

Literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses

a)

ended with Andrew Johnson's presidency.

b)

were an effect of Jim Crow Laws.

c)

were practiced throughout the United States.

d)

were designed to keep Southern Democrats out of power.