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Unit 8: Civil War & Reconstruction

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Before the Civil War, The South was:
a)
Pro-Slavery
b)
Anti-Slavery
c)
The Union
d)
More populated than North
2.

This legislation brought California in as a free state, and also created Utah and New Mexico. The Fugitive Slave Act was included in this legislation, as well:

a)

Compromise of 1820

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Dred Scott Decision

d)

Fugitive Slave Law

3.
To break away from, or withdraw from something
a)
Abolish
b)
Secede
c)
Repeal
d)
Compromise
4.
Before the Civil War, the North was:
a)
Weak
b)
Anti-Slavery
c)
Pro-Slavery
d)
The Confederates
5.

What was the goal of many laws Congress passed in the lead-up to the Civil War?

a)

To persuade citizens to elect Lincoln as President

b)

To restrict new states from joining the country

c)

To persuade the Confederacy to return to the Union

d)

To balance power between the North and South

6.

Which detail shows that the US had violated the statement that "all men are created equal"?

a)

The Civil War tested our nation like nothing before

b)

Four million people were enslaved in America in 1860

c)

Southerners were scared to lose their power as the nation grew

d)

Six southern states seceded from the nation after Lincoln was elected

7.

What was the central conflict that led to the Civil War?

a)

The debate about the South's secession

b)

The founding on the Republican party

c)

The implementation of Constitutional rights

d)

The issue of slavery

8.

What is the idea that people are loyal to the region where they live rather than their country as a whole because of the differences in economics, social beliefs, and geography?

a)

State's Rights

b)

Sectionalism

c)

My Area is the Best

d)

Emancipation

9.
What was the key issue that was debated each time a new state was admitted to the Union before the Civil War?
a)
the expansion of slavery
b)
the building of railroads 
c)
the provision of women's suffrage
d)
support for the homesteading 
10.

How did slavery influence Texas to enter the Civil War?

a)

Most Texans believed slavery was wrong and wanted to end it

b)

Most Texans did not own enslaved people so it did not have an influence.

c)

Most Texans believed that slavery was vital to their economy

d)

Most Texans wanted to end the slave trade

11.

Texas was a part of the...

a)

Pacific North West

b)

Union

c)

Deep South

d)

Confederacy

12.

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

13.

This gave all men regardless of race the right to vote.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

14.

This secret society attempted to keep Freedmen from exercising their rights through threats and violence.

a)

the Freedmen's Bureau

b)

The Anti-Freedmen Group

c)

the Ku Klux Klan

d)

the NAACP

15.

Which of the following limited the rights of African Americans in order to help the White Southerners hold onto slavery-like conditions?

a)

The Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Black Codes

d)

Radical Republicans

16.

How did sharecropping affect freedmen?

a)

Sharecropping hurt freedmen because it kept them in a cycle of debt to white landowners.

b)

Sharecropping helped freedmen because white landowners had to pay them for labor and they were able to save their money.

c)

Sharecropping helped freedmen because they finally owned their own land.

d)

Sharecropping did not affect freedmen because only white landowners were sharecroppers.

17.

Which government agency helped freed African Americans with jobs, healthcare, education, and food after the Civil War?

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

US Army

d)

Confederacy

18.

This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing, and created the 1st public school in Georgia.

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

19.

Black Codes were put into place for what purpose?

a)

Assist African Americans

b)

Oppress African Americans

c)

Identify African Americans

d)

Remove African Americans

20.

This is the name of the period of time the followed the end of the Civil War.

a)

Building Era

b)

Reconstruction Era

c)

Rebuild Era

d)

Post Civil War Era