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WorksheetsUnit one review
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 1hrs 16mins
Which TWO options best describe Jim Crow laws?
The South's way to avoid the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments
African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
Discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
Unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education
The South adopted laws called (a)
What did the withdrawal of federal troops from the South lead to?
The expansion of rights for African Americans
An era of oppressive race relations in the South
Unity between southern Democrats and Republicans
The repeal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Which of the following is TRUE about sharecropping?
Sharecropping favored the freedmen.
Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping.
Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty.
Many state governments offered loans for sharecropping farmers.
What was required to have 10% in Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
10% of plantation owners needed to free their slaves
10% of white male southerners needed to pledge an oath of loyalty to the United States
10% of Confederate troops would be imprisoned for war crimes
10% of former slaves would have to be registered to vote
Who was the Civil War fought between?
The Union and the North
The Confederates and the South
The Union and the Confederacy
The Colonists and the English
What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?
To surround the Confederate States and cut them off from help and supplies
To place Confederate armies like a wall around the North
Striking quickly at key cities and bases in the South
To gain foreign support for the Union Army
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.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
The Army of Northern Virginia
The 54th of Massachusetts
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.
Northern Opportunist
Carpetbagger
Sharecropper
Northern Antagonizer
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.
Democratic-Republicans
War Hawks
Emancipationists
Radical Republicans
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?
The American Missionary Association
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Ku Klux Klan
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP
What was the low point of White/Black relations in US History known as?
Reconstruction
Nadir
Jim Crow
Civil Rights Movement
What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?
Secessionist
Lincolnist
Abolitionist
Whig
What does secede mean?
Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political organization.
Compulsory recruitment for military service.
The right to vote in political elections.
To be arrested in Gotham City.
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.
Missouri Compromise (of 1820)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Law
Secession by the Southern States
Scalawags were...
Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships
Southern Republicans
Former Confederate Leaders
African Americans
Once a Native American Tribe submitted to Federal authority [or was forced to submit], where were they forced to live?
The Black Hills
Reservation
Sharecropping co-op
Who was the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate?
Harriet Tubman
Crispus Attucks
Frederick Douglass
Hiram Rhodes Revels
The Dawes Act...
Allowed the Plains Indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
Divided the Plains Indians' tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
Provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
Established the route for the Transcontinental Railroad
What do the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the annexation of Texas in 1845, and the Mexican War of 1846 have in common?
They brought about a war with Spain.
They increased the territory of the United States.
Each resulted in territory annexed by the United States.
Each involved land forcibly taken from Mexico.
What was the Union fighting for and why?
To keep the Union (America) whole and end slavery
To keep the Confederation strong and maintain slavery
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.
Colonizing
Individualism
Destructrilism
Americanization
Match the amendment with the protection it guarantees
Bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories.
13th
Amendment
Grants citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. regardless of race, color,
or previous condition of servitude.
14th
Amendment
Ensures all persons born in the U.S. have the right to vote regardless of
race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th
Amendment
The agreement that allowed President Hayes to become president and led to the withdrawal of the military is?
Amnesty Act of 1872
Compromise of 1877
Enforcement Act
Compromise of 1876
What tax was used to prevent black and poor white people from voting?
Literacy Test
Jim Crow Laws
14th Amendment
Poll tax
Compromise of 1850:
Checking for understanding - Which state was entered as a free state (without slavery)?
(a)
Compromise of 1850:
Checking for understanding - How would the issue of slavery be determined in other territories gained in the Mexican-American War?
Slavery would be legal
Popular Sovereignty
Slavery would be illegal
The states would be divided between slave and free states
Lesson Review: What is the term for having loyalty to one part of the nation rather than the entire nation?
Nationalism
Sectionalism
Imperialism
Compromise
Lesson Review: Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act fail?
It expanded slavery into Kansas.
Outsiders came to Kansas to influence the vote. Fighting broke out.
Kansas seceded from the union in 1854.
The Supreme Court overruled the popular vote.
This bans slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30'N line of latitude.
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 Ostend Manifesto
This was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba.
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 Ostend Manifesto
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.
Dred Scott
James Buchanan
John Brown
Stephen A. Douglas
Roger B. Taney
The Confederates attacked this fort, and the Union surrendered. These were the first shots of the war.
Bull Run/ Manassas 1
Antietam
Appomattox Courthouse
Ft. Sumter
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?
Antietam
Gettysburg
Bull Run
Vicksburg
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.
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Bull Run
Antietam
Where did Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?
At Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
At the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
Near the city of Gettysburg.
A federal law that outlawed Black Codes
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1865
Civil Rights Act of 1867
Civil Rights Act of 1868
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?
Popular Sovereignty
Freeport Doctrine
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
