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WorksheetsCivil War & Reconstruction
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?
Secessionist
Lincolnist
Abolitionist
Whig
This means that the people get to decide on an issue, including whether or not to allow slavery in their territory
Reconstruction
Popular Sovereignty
Secede
Congress
The US Supreme Court decided that this man was still just a slave, even though he had lived in a free territory, setting the stage for slavery to be legal everywhere
Uncle Tom
Tony Stark
Dred Scott
Brown v Board
What was the capital of the Confederate States?
Richmond, VA
Poormond, PA
Gettysburg, PA
Tallahassee, FL
Who was president of the Confederate States during the war?
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Alexander Hamilton
Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the North?
More factories
Larger population
Better railroads
Most of the nation's best generals
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort on April 12, 1861
Fort Benning
Fort Sumter
Fort Belvoire
Fort Pierce
What were the major causes of the Civil War? (List all that apply)
Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws
Slavery
Lincoln winning the election of 1860
Westward Expansion
All of the above
What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.
12th Amendment
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is:
A policy that gave Freed Slaves who helped the North during the war 40 acres and a mule
A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy land owners 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
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
What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?
Cheat Codes
Morse Codes
Black Codes
Nuclear Codes
Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
12th Amendment
Why did General Lee join the Confederate military?
He felt loyalty to his native Virginia.
He was in favor of slavery.
He had been defeated in the presidential election.
He believed in the rights of states to secede.
Who was the Union general in the West that gained the only victories for the Union?
William Tecumseh Sherman
"Stonewall" Jackson
Ullysses S. Grant
James Longstreet
Who won the Civil War?
Florida
The Confederacy
Mexico
The Union
Which is the best description of Reconstruction?
rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War
What's the best title for this list?
Reconstruction Laws & Policies
Jim Crow Laws
Civil War Codes
Black Codes
Lincoln's Lenient Reconstruction Plan.
30% OFF
10% Plan
The Dab
20% Plan
The 15th Amendment states that a person cannot be denied the right to vote based on ____________________.
race
previous condition of servitude
both
___________________ wanted African Americans to have full citizenship.
Carpet Baggers
Jefferson Davis
Andrew Johnson
Radical Republicans
