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WorksheetsCBA 7 Prep
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 17mins
Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas as a result of what piece of legislation?
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Compromise of 1850
13th Amendment
Which Civil War battle ended Confederate access to the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederate Territory in half?
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Antietam
Which of the following had the greatest impact on the outcome of the Civil War?
Economic differences between the Union and the Confederacy
The amount of military training given to Union forces and Confederacy forces
Religious differences between the Union and the Confederacy
The alignment of foreign allies with the Union or with the Confederacy
The Freedmen's Bureau ...
Divided plantations to give property to former slaves
Created a militia to help enforce voting rights
offered legal assistance and education to former slaves
tried to get the government to give money to former slaves
The main purpose of Black Codes in the south was to ...
limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments
increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North
decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress
improve relations with the Democratic Party
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
- 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?
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
The Gettysburg Address
The Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
The election of __________ to the US Senate finally provided African Americans in the south with proof that the 15th Amendment was being enforced.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Dred Scott
Ulysses S. Grant
Frederick Douglass
The Homestead Act was signed into law in 1862, and its purpose was to --
set aside designated lands in states for the creation of higher institutions of learning
promote individual ownership of land by Native Americans
allow for the inclusion of newly freed African Americans into Southern society
encourage settlement of the west by any American, including freed slaves
A federal law that outlawed Black Codes and the first time Congress passed a law that protected racial minorities
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1865
Civil Rights Act of 1867
Civil Rights Act of 1868
The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act all dealt with what basic question?
Should the U.S. expand westward?
Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?
Should slave labor be allowed in new states?
Should states be able to secede from the Union?
How were former Confederate leaders treated under the Radical Reconstruction
plan?
They were denied citizenship because it was believed they had started the war.
They were required to enlist in the U.S. Army for two years.
They were denied the ability to obtain political positions.
They were allowed to obtain federal loans to help restore the cotton industry.
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?"
12th
13th
14th
15th
Which amendment to the US Constitution granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States?
Civil Rights Act of 1981
14th amendment
15th amendment
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With Jim Crow Laws, blacks and whites could attend the same schools.
True
False
What three amendments are considered the Reconstruction Amendments?
1st, 2nd, 3rd
13th, 14th, 15th
25th, 26th, 27th
4th, 5th, 6th
Southern laws meant to keep African-Americans socially and politically inferior to whites were called...
Black codes
Slave codes
Reconstruction Amendments
Poll taxes
