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Unit 8: Civil War Review

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as these Amendments.

a)

Kansas- Nebraska Act

b)

Reconstruction Amendments

c)

Convict Lease Laws

d)

Black Codes

2.

What is the definition to Abolish?

a)

Someone who opposed slavery and actively fought to eliminate it

b)

To put an end to something, is to do this to it

c)

To leave the Union, is to do this from it

d)

A temporary government agency that helped newly freed people

3.

Passed in 1820, it admitted the states of Maine & Missouri into the Union

a)

Bleeding Kansas

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Freedmen’s Bureau

d)

Missouri Compromise

4.

Laws that discriminated against African-Americans throughout the South after the Civil War were nicknamed these

a)

Black Codes

b)

Convict Lease Laws

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

Reconstruction Amendments

5.

A series of violent confrontations between antislavery and proslavery supporters in Kansas

a)

Bleeding Kansas

b)

Reconstruction Era

c)

Abolitionist

d)

Underground Railroad

6.

This organized the Unorganized Territory into the Kansas & Nebraska Territories

(a)  

7.

Someone who opposed slavery and actively fought to eliminate it.

a)

Reconstruction Amendments

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Abolitionist

d)

Abolish

8.

In Southern states where these laws existed, African-American convicts could be forced to work for free

a)

Convict Lease Laws

b)

Black Codes

c)

Reconstruction Era

d)

Underground Railroad

9.

(a)   means to leave the Union.

10.

What is Freedmen’s Bureau

a)

A network of routes used by runaway slaves to escape slavery in the South

b)

Period of time after the Civil War from 1865-1877 when efforts were made to rebuild the South

c)

Passed in 1820, it admitted the

states of Maine & Missouri into the

Union

d)

A temporary government agency that helped newly freed people

11.

A network of routes used by runaway slaves to escape slavery in the South

a)

Reconstruction Amendments

b)

Bleeding Kansas

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

Black Codes

12.

Period of time after the Civil War from 1865-1877 when efforts were made to rebuild the South

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Black Codes

c)

Secede

d)

Reconstruction Era

13.

Who was born into slavery, escaped life as a slave and became an influential and famous abolitionist?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Robert E Lee

d)

Fredrick Douglas

14.

The Pacific Railroad Act allowed for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The South was much more dependent on slave labor for its economy because of its reliance on this labor-intensive industry......

a)

Manufacturing

b)

Mining

c)

Agriculture

d)

Fishing

16.

Who was the Cotton Gin invented by in 1793?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Harriet Becher Stowe

17.

Nebraska was the first state to secede from the Union.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of this book:

a)

Bud not Buddy

b)

Uncle Toms Cabin

c)

The Declaration of Independence

d)

Twelve Years a Slave

19.

Where was the Capital of the Confederacy located

a)

Washington D.C

b)

Austin

c)

New York

d)

Richmond

20.

What amendment abolished slavery

a)

3rd

b)

13th

c)

17th

d)

15th

21.

Issued by President Lincoln, it declared as of January 1, 1863 slaves “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”:

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Gettysburg Address

c)

"I have a Dream"

Speech

d)

Kansas Nebraska Act

22.

What is true about the Battle of Gettysburg?

a)

Resulted in a Union Victory

b)

Lasted only 3 Days

c)

It was the deadliest battle of the Civil War

d)

All of the Above

23.

Andrew Jackson became president after the assassination of President Lincoln

a)

True

b)

False

24.

This faction of Congress fought to abolish slavery priorto the Civil War, and led efforts afterthe Civil War to grant freed people equal rights, freedoms, and protections:

a)

Radical Democrats

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

House of Representatives

d)

Congress

25.

Explain how life was different for former enslaved African-Americans in the U.S. after the Civil War ended. Make sure to use specific examples in your response:

4 lines
26.

Maine

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

27.

Mississippi

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

28.

Missouri

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

29.

North Carolina

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

30.

Vermont

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

31.

Alabama

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

32.

Texas

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

33.

Maryland

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

34.

Arkansas

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

35.

Virginia

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

36.

Delaware

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

37.

New York

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

38.

South Carolina

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

39.

Louisiana

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

40.

Ohio

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

41.

Rhode Island

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

42.

Florida

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

43.

Kentucky

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

44.

Tennessee

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

45.

West Virginia

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate

46.

Georgia

a)

Border

b)

Union

c)

Confederate