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WorksheetsCivil War and Reconstruction
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 5mins
What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?
It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent.
It brought investment capital to the South.
It encouraged Northerners to migrate south
It provide for a fairer distribution of farm profits.
What system helped ensure that African Americans remained poor and virtually locked of any opportunity for land ownership after the Civil War?
Black Codes
Sharecropping
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation
Which of the following is NOT an example of a Jim Crow practice put into place to disenfranchise blacks
Poll tax
Grandfather clause
Literacy tests
Sharecropping
The (a) amendment abolished slavery in the United States
The (a) amendment erases the supreme courts “Dred Scott” decision (which said slaves do not have rights). This Amendment grants citizenship to all persons bon in the U.S. regardless of race.
The 15th amendment gives all American men the right to Vote. Regardless of race or color or “previous condition of servitude”(that means slavery)
True
False
Which is not a true statement about life after the Civil War?
Amendments were added to the Constitution to reinforce the end of slavery.
Lingering prejudices in the South led to the passage of Jim Crow laws.
Former slaves often became miners
The Freedman’s Bureau was created to help the newly freed slaves to make the transition to new ways of living.
All of the statements below show positive effects of Reconstruction in the South except?
development of public school system
more rights for free slaves
rebuilding of towns and cities
more workers on plantations
Which Civil War battle is considered one of the bloodiest, set in Pennsylvania, and is credited as a major turning point for the Union in the war against the Confederacy
Battle of Atlanta
Ft. Sumter
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Fort Sumter, located in Charleston, South Carolina was the site of the first shots fired in the Civil War.
True
False
a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway
Raid
fugitive
discrimination
tariff
a surprise attack on an enemy by soldiers or other military forces
Raid
fugitive
discrimination
tariff
a series of safe houses and “conductors” who helped slaves escape from slavery to the North or to abolitionists in the South
Raid
fugitive
Underground railroad
tariff
treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or
Tariff
Confederacy
Discrimination
Union
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in response to which law passed by Congress in 1850?
Townsend Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Civil Rights Act
.Black Codes
Harriet Beecher Stowe's book DIDN'T talk about the cruelty of slavery sold over 300,000 copies in one year and pointed out that slavery was not just the south’s problem, but the nation’s problem
True
False
