WorksheetsCivil War and Reconstruction Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who did Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually free?
Only the slaves in the Confederacy (So none of them)
Only slaves in Western Territories
Only slaves in the border states
All of the slaves in the North and South
Democrats negotiated the removal of troops from the southern states and the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877. What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?
Radical Republicans retained control of Congress.
Federal aid to the South was controlled by Republicans.
Republicans received powerful Cabinet positions.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes became President.
Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the Confederate Army during the Civil War?
Commitment to the Cause
Population
Defensive War
Better Trained Army
As a result of his eloquent ______, Lincoln rebranded the cause of the Civil War away from preserving the union to ending slavery - a turning point in the conflict.
State of the Union speech
Sherman's March to the Sea
The Battle of Antietam
Gettysburg Address
What practice was established in America by the landmark U. S. Supreme Court Case Plessy versus Ferguson?
Integration of the races
Separate but equal segregation
Slaves were property and not citizens
Freedom of the Press
"Although important strides were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen.” Which evidence best supports this statement?
passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century
ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
refusal of Southern States to allow sharecropping
passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866
Poll taxes and literacy tests were devices used to deny African Americans the right to vote that were put in place by
President Ulysses S. Grant
U. S. Congress
U. S. Supreme Court
Southern state governments
What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?
Forbade slavery
Granted citizenship to black Americans
Gave all men the right to vote
Forbade racial discrimination in public places
What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?
Forbade slavery
Granted citizenship rights to black Americans
Gave black men the right to vote
Forbade racial discrimination in public places
What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
Forbade slavery
Granted citizenship to black Americans
Gave black men the right to vote
Forbade racial discrimination in public places
