WorksheetsUnit 8: Civil War & Reconstruction
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
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:
Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Fugitive Slave Law
What was the goal of many laws Congress passed in the lead-up to the Civil War?
To persuade citizens to elect Lincoln as President
To restrict new states from joining the country
To persuade the Confederacy to return to the Union
To balance power between the North and South
Which detail shows that the US had violated the statement that "all men are created equal"?
The Civil War tested our nation like nothing before
Four million people were enslaved in America in 1860
Southerners were scared to lose their power as the nation grew
Six southern states seceded from the nation after Lincoln was elected
What was the central conflict that led to the Civil War?
The debate about the South's secession
The founding on the Republican party
The implementation of Constitutional rights
The issue of slavery
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?
State's Rights
Sectionalism
My Area is the Best
Emancipation
How did slavery influence Texas to enter the Civil War?
Most Texans believed slavery was wrong and wanted to end it
Most Texans did not own enslaved people so it did not have an influence.
Most Texans believed that slavery was vital to their economy
Most Texans wanted to end the slave trade
Texas was a part of the...
Pacific North West
Union
Deep South
Confederacy
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
This gave all men regardless of race the right to vote.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
This secret society attempted to keep Freedmen from exercising their rights through threats and violence.
the Freedmen's Bureau
The Anti-Freedmen Group
the Ku Klux Klan
the NAACP
Which of the following limited the rights of African Americans in order to help the White Southerners hold onto slavery-like conditions?
The Freedmen's Bureau
Abraham Lincoln
Black Codes
Radical Republicans
How did sharecropping affect freedmen?
Sharecropping hurt freedmen because it kept them in a cycle of debt to white landowners.
Sharecropping helped freedmen because white landowners had to pay them for labor and they were able to save their money.
Sharecropping helped freedmen because they finally owned their own land.
Sharecropping did not affect freedmen because only white landowners were sharecroppers.
Which government agency helped freed African Americans with jobs, healthcare, education, and food after the Civil War?
Emancipation Proclamation
Freedmen's Bureau
US Army
Confederacy
This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing, and created the 1st public school in Georgia.
Sharecropping
Jim Crow Laws
Reconstruction
Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes were put into place for what purpose?
Assist African Americans
Oppress African Americans
Identify African Americans
Remove African Americans
This is the name of the period of time the followed the end of the Civil War.
Building Era
Reconstruction Era
Rebuild Era
Post Civil War Era
