WorksheetsUnit 8: Civil War Review
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 26mins
The 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as these Amendments.
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Reconstruction Amendments
Convict Lease Laws
Black Codes
What is the definition to Abolish?
Someone who opposed slavery and actively fought to eliminate it
To put an end to something, is to do this to it
To leave the Union, is to do this from it
A temporary government agency that helped newly freed people
Passed in 1820, it admitted the states of Maine & Missouri into the Union
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Freedmen’s Bureau
Missouri Compromise
Laws that discriminated against African-Americans throughout the South after the Civil War were nicknamed these
Black Codes
Convict Lease Laws
Underground Railroad
Reconstruction Amendments
A series of violent confrontations between antislavery and proslavery supporters in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Reconstruction Era
Abolitionist
Underground Railroad
This organized the Unorganized Territory into the Kansas & Nebraska Territories
(a)
Someone who opposed slavery and actively fought to eliminate it.
Reconstruction Amendments
Missouri Compromise
Abolitionist
Abolish
In Southern states where these laws existed, African-American convicts could be forced to work for free
Convict Lease Laws
Black Codes
Reconstruction Era
Underground Railroad
(a) means to leave the Union.
What is Freedmen’s Bureau
A network of routes used by runaway slaves to escape slavery in the South
Period of time after the Civil War from 1865-1877 when efforts were made to rebuild the South
Passed in 1820, it admitted the
states of Maine & Missouri into the
Union
A temporary government agency that helped newly freed people
A network of routes used by runaway slaves to escape slavery in the South
Reconstruction Amendments
Bleeding Kansas
Underground Railroad
Black Codes
Period of time after the Civil War from 1865-1877 when efforts were made to rebuild the South
Missouri Compromise
Black Codes
Secede
Reconstruction Era
Who was born into slavery, escaped life as a slave and became an influential and famous abolitionist?
Andrew Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E Lee
Fredrick Douglas
The Pacific Railroad Act allowed for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
True
False
The South was much more dependent on slave labor for its economy because of its reliance on this labor-intensive industry......
Manufacturing
Mining
Agriculture
Fishing
Who was the Cotton Gin invented by in 1793?
Eli Whitney
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
Harriet Becher Stowe
Nebraska was the first state to secede from the Union.
True
False
Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of this book:
Bud not Buddy
Uncle Toms Cabin
The Declaration of Independence
Twelve Years a Slave
Where was the Capital of the Confederacy located
Washington D.C
Austin
New York
Richmond
What amendment abolished slavery
3rd
13th
17th
15th
Issued by President Lincoln, it declared as of January 1, 1863 slaves “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”:
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
"I have a Dream"
Speech
Kansas Nebraska Act
What is true about the Battle of Gettysburg?
Resulted in a Union Victory
Lasted only 3 Days
It was the deadliest battle of the Civil War
All of the Above
Andrew Jackson became president after the assassination of President Lincoln
True
False
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:
Radical Democrats
Radical Republicans
House of Representatives
Congress
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:
Maine
Border
Union
Confederate
Mississippi
Border
Union
Confederate
Missouri
Border
Union
Confederate
North Carolina
Border
Union
Confederate
Vermont
Border
Union
Confederate
Alabama
Border
Union
Confederate
Texas
Border
Union
Confederate
Maryland
Border
Union
Confederate
Arkansas
Border
Union
Confederate
Virginia
Border
Union
Confederate
Delaware
Border
Union
Confederate
New York
Border
Union
Confederate
South Carolina
Border
Union
Confederate
Louisiana
Border
Union
Confederate
Ohio
Border
Union
Confederate
Rhode Island
Border
Union
Confederate
Florida
Border
Union
Confederate
Kentucky
Border
Union
Confederate
Tennessee
Border
Union
Confederate
West Virginia
Border
Union
Confederate
Georgia
Border
Union
Confederate
