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WorksheetsCivil War and Reconstruction
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 24mins
What were the major causes of the Civil War? (List all that apply)
Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws
Slavery
Westward Expansion
Lincoln winning the election of 1860
All of these
General Sherman defeated the south using this tactic:
Total War
Guerilla Warfare
The Anaconda Plan
Emancipation of Slaves
What compromise settled the intensely debated Election of 1876: Hayes vs Tilden and formally ended Reconstruction in the south with Hayes becoming president?
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1877
Compromise of 1820
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
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 from the Freedmen's Bureau to allow economically disadvantaged people in the south the opportunity to own land
Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The 16th Amendment
Who was president of the Confederate States during the war?
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Alexander Hamilton
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort on April 12, 1861
Fort Benning
Fort Sumter
Fort Belvoire
Fort Pierce
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
Lincoln's Reconstruction needed southern states to have at least ________ % of the voting population take a loyalty oath.
10
30
50
99
Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________
Union Army
Special Field Order 15
Freedmen's Bureau
President Johnson was impeached for _________________.
lying to the country
violating the Tenure of Office Act
holding elections in an off year
A freedmen was required to have a labor contract in Mississippi after 1865. This is an example of ______________.
Jim Crow Laws
sharecropping
the black codes
Reconstruction
Literacy tests were created as a way to suppress African American voters after the passage of the _______________.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
The period of rebuilding of The South after The Civil War was known as
The Renaissance
Reconstruction
The Guilded Age
The Industrial Revolution
Which is the BEST description of the southern economy during Reconstruction?
The southern economy was stabilized because of trade relationships with Great Britain and France.
The southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor
The southern economy was transformed from being based on agriculture to being completely dependent on industry and manufacturing.
The southern economy was completely restored by 1866 and was actually more productive and profitable than the pre- Civil War economy.
President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction included punishing those who had fought against the U.S. during the war.
True
False
Who became president after Andrew Johnson?
U.S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Robert Smalls
Hiram Revels
Who worked to end lynchings in America?
Clara Barton
James Byrd
Isaiah Montgomery
Ida B. Wells
Which of the following is NOT true about the Emancipation Proclamation?
It was signed by President Lincoln as a way to change the reason for the war to about ending slavery
It made slavery illegal in all of the rebelling(Southern) states, and union forces could free slaves
It was added to the constitution as the official abolishing of slavery in all of America including union states
Congress would NOT let Lincoln free slaves in the border states because those states hadn't rebelled or seceded.
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered to be the turning point of the war?
It was the point in which the North no longer had control of the war
It was the South's last hope to bring the war to the Northern states
It was Lincoln's favorite general in the war winning his first battle
General Lee finally had successfully won a battle in the Northern states
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the cemetery focused on
The war strategy moving forward for the North to win the war
To honor the dead in this war by being a better nation of equality and democracy
To honor General Grant for winning the Battle of Shiloh
As a campaign rally for his upcoming reelection against Jefferson Davis
General Sherman in his March to the Sea used this tactic in order to defeat the South
Limited War
Guerilla Warfare
Total War(Scorched Earth)
Peace Treaties
General Grant accepted Lee's unconditional surrender to end the Civil War at this place
Manassas Courthouse
Appomattox Courthouse
Philadelphia Courthouse
Gettysburg Courthouse
Who helped the North win the war following the Emancipation Proclamation
Native Tribes
Great Britain
Mexican-Americans
African-Americans
Abraham Lincoln created the __________ party
Democratic
Free Soil
Liberty
Republican
Who was elected President in 1860?
Jefferson Davis
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
This was the bloodiest day in American history
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Shiloh
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
