WorksheetsCivil War & Reconstruction Unit Test Review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the North in the Civil War?
Well Trained Army
Railroads
Industrialization
Population
Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the south:
Commitment to the Cause
Defensive War
Population
Better Trained Army
What were the major causes of the Civil War? (Select all that apply)
Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws
Westward Expansion
Slavery
Lincoln winning the election of 1860
All of the above
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually freed?
Only slaves in the border states
Only slaves in Western Territories
All of the slaves in the North and South
Only the slaves in the Confederacy, so none of them
What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.
The 16th Amendment
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
What practice was established in America by the landmark Supreme Court Case Plessy Versus Ferguson?
Slaves were property and not citizens
Separate but equal is equality
Voting rights for Freedpeople
Literacy tests and poll taxes were legal
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is
A policy that gave Freed Slaves who helped the North during the war 40 acres and a mule
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
A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy landowners and tied to the land
A system from the Freedmen's Bureau to allow economically disadvantaged people in the south the opportunity to own land
What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?
Separate but Equal Doctrine
Black Codes
Sharecropping
The Grandfather laws
Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The 16th Amendment
Who were the Redeemers?
Radical Republicans who wanted to reunite the Union after the Civil War.
Southern Democrats who used coupons.
Southern Democrats who wanted to bring the progress of Reconstruction to an end.
Radical Republicans who wanted to profit off the South's loss in the Civil War and punish the former members of the Confederacy.
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He was elected for three terms as President, which is unconstitutional.
He fired a cabinet member without Congress's permission.
He allowed the ex-Confederates back into elected office.
He beat a member of Congress over the issue of slavery.
How did landowners keep sharecroppers in debt?
Landowners did not pay the sharecroppers.
Overpaid the sharecroppers.
Created contracts that were impossible for the sharecroppers to fulfill.
Used the 13th Amendment as a form of punishment to keep Freedpeople in line.
What was the biggest benefit the Freedmen's Bureau provided to the Freedpeople?
Jobs
Education
40 Acres and a mule
Help interpreting contracts
Literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses
ended with Andrew Johnson's presidency.
were an effect of Jim Crow Laws.
were practiced throughout the United States.
were designed to keep Southern Democrats out of power.
