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Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who did Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually free?

a)

Only the slaves in the Confederacy (So none of them)

b)

Only slaves in Western Territories

c)

Only slaves in the border states

d)

All of the slaves in the North and South

2.

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?

a)

Radical Republicans retained control of Congress.

b)

Federal aid to the South was controlled by Republicans.

c)

Republicans received powerful Cabinet positions.

d)

Republican Rutherford B. Hayes became President.

3.

Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the Confederate Army during the Civil War?

a)

Commitment to the Cause

b)

Population

c)

Defensive War

d)

Better Trained Army

4.

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.

a)

State of the Union speech

b)

Sherman's March to the Sea

c)

The Battle of Antietam

d)

Gettysburg Address

5.

What practice was established in America by the landmark U. S. Supreme Court Case Plessy versus Ferguson?

a)

Integration of the races

b)

Separate but equal segregation

c)

Slaves were property and not citizens

d)

Freedom of the Press

6.

"Although important strides were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen.” Which evidence best supports this statement?

a)

passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century

b)

ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

c)

refusal of Southern States to allow sharecropping

d)

passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866

7.

Poll taxes and literacy tests were devices used to deny African Americans the right to vote that were put in place by

a)

President Ulysses S. Grant

b)

U. S. Congress

c)

U. S. Supreme Court

d)

Southern state governments

8.

What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

a)

Forbade slavery

b)

Granted citizenship to black Americans

c)

Gave all men the right to vote

d)

Forbade racial discrimination in public places

9.

What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?

a)

Forbade slavery

b)

Granted citizenship rights to black Americans

c)

Gave black men the right to vote

d)

Forbade racial discrimination in public places

10.

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

a)

Forbade slavery

b)

Granted citizenship to black Americans

c)

Gave black men the right to vote

d)

Forbade racial discrimination in public places