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Unit one review

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 1hrs 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which TWO options best describe Jim Crow laws?

a)

The South's way to avoid the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments

b)

African Americans gaining full civil and political rights

c)

Discrimination laws focused on Native Americans

d)

Unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

2.

The South adopted laws called (a)  

Choose from the below words
Brown Codes
Black Laws
Brown Laws
Black Codes
3.

What did the withdrawal of federal troops from the South lead to?

a)

The expansion of rights for African Americans

b)

An era of oppressive race relations in the South

c)

Unity between southern Democrats and Republicans

d)

The repeal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

4.

Which of the following is TRUE about sharecropping?

a)

Sharecropping favored the freedmen.

b)

Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping.

c)

Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty.

d)

Many state governments offered loans for sharecropping farmers.

5.

What was required to have 10% in Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?

a)

10% of plantation owners needed to free their slaves

b)

10% of white male southerners needed to pledge an oath of loyalty to the United States

c)

10% of Confederate troops would be imprisoned for war crimes

d)

10% of former slaves would have to be registered to vote

6.

Who was the Civil War fought between?

a)

The Union and the North

b)

The Confederates and the South

c)

The Union and the Confederacy

d)

The Colonists and the English

7.

What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?

a)

To surround the Confederate States and cut them off from help and supplies

b)

To place Confederate armies like a wall around the North

c)

Striking quickly at key cities and bases in the South

d)

To gain foreign support for the Union Army

8.

Abraham Lincoln delivered this speech in 1863 following a significant battle. The speech referenced the founding of the US, self-government, and the re-dedication to the belief that all people are created equal.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

The Gettysburg Address

c)

The Army of Northern Virginia

d)

The 54th of Massachusetts

9.

A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction, either through political or economic opportunities, is often perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist. This person is also referred to as a snakeoil salesman.

a)

Northern Opportunist

b)

Carpetbagger

c)

Sharecropper

d)

Northern Antagonizer

10.

The name given to a faction in the U.S. Congress that advocated for the emancipation of slaves before and during the Civil War, and insisted on harsh penalties for the South following the war, during the period of Reconstruction.

a)

Democratic-Republicans

b)

War Hawks

c)

Emancipationists

d)

Radical Republicans

11.

What agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to establish schools and churches, provide food and clothing, and address employment issues for former slaves?

a)

The American Missionary Association

b)

The Freedmen's Bureau

c)

The Ku Klux Klan

d)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP

12.

What was the low point of White/Black relations in US History known as?

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Nadir

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Civil Rights Movement

13.

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

a)

Secessionist

b)

Lincolnist

c)

Abolitionist

d)

Whig

14.

What does secede mean?

a)

Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political organization.

b)

Compulsory recruitment for military service.

c)

The right to vote in political elections.

d)

To be arrested in Gotham City.

15.

The Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory were created and each territory was allowed to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. The long-standing compromise had to be repealed, which outraged the North. The passage of this Act and the subsequent violence are thought to have hastened the country into the Civil War.

a)

Missouri Compromise (of 1820)

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Fugitive Slave Law

d)

Secession by the Southern States

16.

Scalawags were...

a)

Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships

b)

Southern Republicans

c)

Former Confederate Leaders

d)

African Americans

17.

Once a Native American Tribe submitted to Federal authority [or was forced to submit], where were they forced to live?

a)

The Black Hills

b)

Reservation

c)

Sharecropping co-op

18.

Who was the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Crispus Attucks

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

19.

The Dawes Act...

a)

Allowed the Plains Indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds

b)

Divided the Plains Indians' tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation

c)

Provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers

d)

Established the route for the Transcontinental Railroad

20.

What do the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the annexation of Texas in 1845, and the Mexican War of 1846 have in common?

a)

They brought about a war with Spain.

b)

They increased the territory of the United States.

c)

Each resulted in territory annexed by the United States.

d)

Each involved land forcibly taken from Mexico.

21.

What was the Union fighting for and why?

a)

To keep the Union (America) whole and end slavery

b)

To keep the Confederation strong and maintain slavery

22.

The action of making a person or thing American in character or nationality. For example, Native Americans being forced to convert religions, speak English, and dress like "white" settlers.

a)

Colonizing

b)

Individualism

c)

Destructrilism

d)

Americanization

23.

Match the amendment with the protection it guarantees

a)

Bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories.

1.

13th

Amendment

b)

Grants citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. regardless of race, color,

or previous condition of servitude.

2.

14th

Amendment

c)

Ensures all persons born in the U.S. have the right to vote regardless of

race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

3.

15th

Amendment

24.

The agreement that allowed President Hayes to become president and led to the withdrawal of the military is?

a)

Amnesty Act of 1872

b)

Compromise of 1877

c)

Enforcement Act

d)

Compromise of 1876

25.

What tax was used to prevent black and poor white people from voting?

a)

Literacy Test

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

14th Amendment

d)

Poll tax

26.

Compromise of 1850:

Checking for understanding - Which state was entered as a free state (without slavery)?

(a)  

27.

Compromise of 1850:

Checking for understanding - How would the issue of slavery be determined in other territories gained in the Mexican-American War?

a)

Slavery would be legal

b)

Popular Sovereignty

c)

Slavery would be illegal

d)

The states would be divided between slave and free states

28.

Lesson Review: What is the term for having loyalty to one part of the nation rather than the entire nation?

a)

Nationalism

b)

Sectionalism

c)

Imperialism

d)

Compromise

29.

Lesson Review: Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act fail?

a)

It expanded slavery into Kansas.

b)

Outsiders came to Kansas to influence the vote. Fighting broke out.

c)

Kansas seceded from the union in 1854.

d)

The Supreme Court overruled the popular vote.

30.

This bans slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30'N line of latitude.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

1854 Ostend Manifesto

31.

This was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

1854 Ostend Manifesto

32.

A slave had sued for his freedom on the grounds that his master had taken him to live in the free state of Illinois and in the Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was prohibited.

a)

Dred Scott

b)

James Buchanan

c)

John Brown

d)

Stephen A. Douglas

e)

Roger B. Taney

33.

The Confederates attacked this fort, and the Union surrendered. These were the first shots of the war.

a)

Bull Run/ Manassas 1

b)

Antietam

c)

Appomattox Courthouse

d)

Ft. Sumter

34.

What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War that turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union and was the northernmost battle in the Civil War?

a)

Antietam

b)

Gettysburg

c)

Bull Run

d)

Vicksburg

35.

Ulysses S. Grant led the operation. They blockaded the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederate troops into smaller groups. This gave them a greater chance of victory.

a)

Vicksburg

b)

Gettysburg

c)

Bull Run

d)

Antietam

36.

Where did Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?

a)

At Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

b)

At the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

c)

Near the city of Gettysburg.

37.

A federal law that outlawed Black Codes

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1865

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1867

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1868

38.

The position stated by Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, that settlers in a U.S. territory could avoid the fugitive slave law by simply failing to provide for police enforcement of the rights of slave owners to their slaves, was extremely popular in the North but not the South. What is this position called?

a)

Popular Sovereignty

b)

Freeport Doctrine

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act