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Bell Ringer Review

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

a)

A federal agency where people could buy clothes

b)

A federal agency that help southern communities recover from the devastation brought about by the Civil War and provided food, housing and medical aid to both freed people and poor white southerners

c)

A federal agency that helped southern communities with legal paperwork.

d)

A federal agency that helped to pay utility bills.

2.

Which of the following BEST summarizes a common goal for both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction Plans?

a)

To provide a quick, peaceful reunification of the country with limited government interference

b)

To punish Confederate leaders in the South for causing the Civil War

c)

To provide equal rights to African Americans

d)

To pardon all Confederate leaders in order to gain their vote

3.

Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War were called ___________.

a)

scalawags

b)

carpetbaggers

c)

freedmen

d)

rebels

4.

What was the nickname given to southern unionists by Arkansas democrats because of their support of Reconstruction?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

Muppet Babies

d)

Red Coats

5.

Only poor whites were allowed to be sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

After the Civil War, African Americans faced many difficulties including poverty, discrimination, and violence.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Free people who had previously been enslaved were known as __________.

a)

freedmen

b)

unslaved

c)

new citizens

d)

righteous and harmonious fists

8.

What problems did formerly enslaved people face during Reconstruction?

a)

Black Codes

b)

lack of education

c)

sharecropping

d)

All of the above

9.

The ____ _____ proposed the harshest terms for the South in their Reconstruction Plan and included full citizenship and the right to vote for all African Americans

(a)  

10.

The (a)   Bureau was established to provide resources like food, shelter, land, schools, and medical aid to former slaves.

11.

This agriculture system developed in the South where tenants of the land would borrow supplies to grow crops and eventually became indebted to their landowners.

(a)  

12.

What event ignited the Civil War?

a)

Fugitive Slave Act passed

b)

Attack on Fort Sumter

c)

"Bleeding Kansas"

d)

Missouri Compromise of 1850 passed

13.

What political party formed in reaction to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

Republican Party

b)

Democratic Party

c)

Whig Party

d)

Green Party

14.

When did Arkansas secede from the Union?

a)

May 6, 1861

b)

March 4, 1861

c)

April 12, 1861

15.

Which is one of the differences between the Missouri Compromise of 1820 & the Missouri Compromise of 1850?

a)

The Missouri Compromise of 1850 stated that states had to enter as a pair-1 free state: 1 slave state.

b)

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed California to come in as a slave state.

c)

The Missouri Compromise of 1850 allowed future territories to decide the issue of slavery themselves.

16.

What was Reconstruction?

a)

The period of time following the Civil War in which the South was rebuilt and the country reunited. 

b)

The period of time following the Civil War in which the North came to the South and gave them a high five.

c)

The period of time following the Civil War where everyone came together and decided to be friends again.

17.

When did the Civil War begin? When did it end?

a)

November 8, 1860- April 1, 1864

b)

April 12, 1861-April 9, 1865

c)

December 12, 1860-March 9, 1861

18.

What were the MAIN causes of the Civil War?

a)

Slavery, States' Rights, Sectionalism, Differing economies

b)

Slavery, Nationalism, Federal Rights, Same economies,

c)

High Tariffs, States' Rights, Sectionalism, Same Economies