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US History EOC Review QUIZ Unit 1 & 2 Civil War/Reconstruction

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

President Lincoln was the winner of which election

a)

1860

b)

1856

c)

1800

d)

1964

2.

A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery and popularized the Abolitionist Movement

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

c)

The North Star

d)

The Jungle

3.

Which Amendment, starting in 1865, abolished slavery?

(a)  

4.

What was the Northern Civil War Strategy to starve the South using a naval blockade, capturing Richmond VA, and controlling the Mississippi?

a)

Secessionist Plan

b)

Penninsula Plan

c)

Anaconda Plan

d)

10% Plan

5.

Term used to describe the 1854-1856 Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters in Kansas:

a)

Bleeding Kansas

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Battle of Vicksburg

6.

What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the case of Dred Scott Vs. Sandford from 1857?

a)

The court ruled that slavery and the 13th Amendment were unconstitutional

b)

The court ruled that slavery should end immediately

c)

The court ruled that slaves were property, not citizens

d)

The court ruled that slaves were citizens and could sue in court for their freedom

7.

The Missouri Compromise established the 36' 30' North latitude line as what?

a)

a dividing line that banned slavery in northern territories while allowing it in southern territories

b)

a dividing line that allowed the U.S. Army to remove Native Americans to western reservations

c)

a dividing line that was used to sell federal land to pioneers for farming and ranching

d)

a dividing line that set up the U.S. national park system

8.

What amendment to the U.S. Constitution made former slaves citizens of the U.S. and gave them equal protection under the law?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

19th

9.

Define the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854:

a)

It called for Kansas and Nebraska to enter the Union as one large state in 1854

b)

It automatically allowed Nebraska to enter the Union as a free state and Kansas as a slave state

c)

The creation of the two new territories would allow the U.S. Army to remove Native Americans from their native hunting grounds

d)

It divided Kansas and Nebraska into two separate territories and gave each territory the right to vote on the issue of allowing slavery

10.

What did the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allow?

a)

Former slaves the right to own land in former Confederate States

b)

African American men the right to vote

c)

The establishment of free public schools for former American American slaves in the South

d)

Former African America slaves the right to apply for a marriage licenses

11.

After the Civil War ended, this federal government agency offered aide to former slaves and poor white famers in the form of health care, marriage licenses, and free public schools.

a)

Settlement Houses

b)

the Freedman's Bureau

c)

Lincoln's 10% Plan

d)

New Deal

12.

What was the main cause of the Abolitionist Movement?

a)

Overseeing total enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act

b)

the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

the expansion of slavery into western U.S. territories

d)

end slavery

13.

In the Compromise of 1850, the north got California admitted into the Union as a free state.

What did the south get in return?

a)

the addition of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

b)

the passage of the 1862 Homestead Act

c)

the banning of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

d)

the passage of a federal law called the Fugitive Slave Act

14.

Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War?

a)

Fort Sumter in South Carolina

b)

Fort McHenry in Maryland

c)

Fort Laramie in Wyoming

d)

Sutter's Fort in California

15.

Which one of the following is NOT true of the the Fugitive Slave Act?

a)

This new law made the federal government - not the individual states - responsible for apprehending fugitive slaves

b)

All escaped slaves had to be returned to their "owners"

c)

It allowed runaway slaves the right to return south and file suit in court against their kidnappers

d)

It denied enslaved people the right to a jury trial

16.

An American patriotic song from the Civil War that was written by Julia Ward Howe after she visited a Union Army encampment.

a)

The Star-Spangled Banner

b)

Onward Christian Soldier's

c)

Battle Hymn of the Republic

d)

America the Beautiful

17.

What was the name of President Lincoln's Plan to reconstruct the south after the Civil War ended?

a)

Congressional Plan

b)

10% Plan

c)

New Deal

d)

Anaconda Plan

18.

What did President Lincoln sign in 1863 that freed enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion?

a)

1866 Civil Rights Act

b)

13th Amendment

c)

the Freedman's Bureau Act

d)

the Emancipation Proclamation

19.

These laws passed in southern states at the end of the Civil War ban former African American slaves from owning land and limited their jobs opportunities were called what?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Sharing Cropping Rules and Regulations

d)

Nuremburg Laws

20.

All of the following were advantages that the South had over the North during the except?

a)

Rivers

b)

fighting in familiar territory

c)

experience military leaders

d)

railroads and telegraph lines

21.

All of the following are advantages that the North had over the South during the Civil War except?

a)

cotton and agriculture

b)

factories

c)

railroads and telegraph lines

d)

large labor population from Europe

22.

A system in which white landowners divided some of their land and gave each worker a few acres to farm. This also included the tools and seeds. Both freed blacks and poor whites took part. At harvest time, each worker gave a portion of their crop, usually half, to the landowner.

This was called?

a)

10% Plan

b)

Black Codes

c)

share cropping

d)

organic farming

23.

President of the United States that faced impeachment because many radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress felt that he was not carrying out his constitutional obligation to enforce the Reconstruction?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Rutherford B. Hayes

24.

Group that was founded as a social club for Confederate veterans in Tennessee in 1866. Between 1868 and 1871 they killed thousands of men, women, and children.

What is the name of this group?

a)

League of the South

b)

Nazi Party of American

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Soldier's of Fear

25.

What was the name of the new nation formed by the seceding southern states in 1861?

a)

the United States of North America

b)

the Union of Rebellious States of the South

c)

the United Southern Federation of States

d)

the Confederate States of America