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CBA 7 Prep

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas as a result of what piece of legislation?

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

13th Amendment

2.

Which Civil War battle ended Confederate access to the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederate Territory in half?

a)

Battle of Yorktown

b)

Battle of Gettysburg

c)

Battle of Vicksburg

d)

Battle of Antietam

3.

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the outcome of the Civil War?

a)

Economic differences between the Union and the Confederacy

b)

The amount of military training given to Union forces and Confederacy forces

c)

Religious differences between the Union and the Confederacy

d)

The alignment of foreign allies with the Union or with the Confederacy

4.

The Freedmen's Bureau ...

a)

Divided plantations to give property to former slaves

b)

Created a militia to help enforce voting rights

c)

offered legal assistance and education to former slaves

d)

tried to get the government to give money to former slaves

5.

The main purpose of Black Codes in the south was to ...

a)

limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

b)

increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

c)

decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

d)

improve relations with the Democratic Party

6.

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south causing the abolitionist movement to gain momentum in the North

a)
Fugitive Slave Act
b)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
c)
Dred Scott Decision
d)
Compromise of 1850
7.

- Encouraged African Americans to fight for the Union

- Strengthened the Union militarily and politically

- Shifted the focus of the war to freedom for all

All of these were parts of which speech?

a)

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

b)

The Gettysburg Address

c)

The Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

8.

The election of __________ to the US Senate finally provided African Americans in the south with proof that the 15th Amendment was being enforced.

a)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

b)

Dred Scott

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Frederick Douglass

9.

The Homestead Act was signed into law in 1862, and its purpose was to --

a)

set aside designated lands in states for the creation of higher institutions of learning

b)

promote individual ownership of land by Native Americans

c)

allow for the inclusion of newly freed African Americans into Southern society

d)

encourage settlement of the west by any American, including freed slaves

10.

A federal law that outlawed Black Codes and the first time Congress passed a law that protected racial minorities

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1865

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1867

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1868

11.

The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act all dealt with what basic question?

a)

Should the U.S. expand westward?

b)

Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

c)

Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

d)

Should states be able to secede from the Union?

12.

How were former Confederate leaders treated under the Radical Reconstruction

plan?

a)

They were denied citizenship because it was believed they had started the war.

b)

They were required to enlist in the U.S. Army for two years.

c)

They were denied the ability to obtain political positions.

d)

They were allowed to obtain federal loans to help restore the cotton industry.

13.
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States
a)
12th
b)
13th
c)
14th
d)
15th
14.

Which amendment to the US Constitution prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race?"

a)

12th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

15.

Which amendment to the US Constitution granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1981

b)

14th amendment

c)

15th amendment

d)

hippos

16.

With Jim Crow Laws, blacks and whites could attend the same schools.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

What three amendments are considered the Reconstruction Amendments?

a)

1st, 2nd, 3rd

b)

13th, 14th, 15th

c)

25th, 26th, 27th

d)

4th, 5th, 6th

18.

Southern laws meant to keep African-Americans socially and politically inferior to whites were called...

a)

Black codes

b)

Slave codes

c)

Reconstruction Amendments

d)

Poll taxes

19.
Who could hold public office in the south during Reconstruction?
a)
African Americans
b)
Confederate Leaders
c)
Southern Women
d)
American Indians
20.
Abraham Lincoln believed...
a)
African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
b)
in the southern cause
c)
southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
d)
preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south