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Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 33mins
(a) this sign represents what laws in the South
What TWO best describes Jim Crow laws?
The South's way to avoid the 13th,14th, & 15th Amendment
The South adopted laws called (a)
Jim Crow laws covered which of the following (select all that apply)
Education
Restaurants
Marriage
Transportation
What was the intent of the Black Codes?
To ensure freedoms for African Americans in the South
To dismiss freedmen from elected positions in state governments
To establish local laws to protect African Americans from mob violence
To restrict the rights of freedmen after the end of slavery
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 freeedmen.
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 loan for sharecropping farmers.
Amendment that abolished slavery in America (a)
Can not be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or having been a slave (a)
Due process, EQUAL PROTECTION, Citizens (a)
Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869? (a)
What needed to have 10% in Lincoln's ten Percent Plan?
10% of plantation owners needed to free their slaves
10% of white male southerners 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
Which two plans would allow for pardons for those who fought or assisted the Confederacy?
Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan
Johnson's Presidential Plan
Radical Republican Plan
Who in Congress proposed a bill that was much more strict than the plan Lincoln created?
Wade Davis
Andrew Johnson
Robert E Lee
Stephen Douglass
Who was the Civil War fought between?
Union and North
Confederates and the South
Union and the Confederacy
Colonists and the English
Which of the following is a FALSE statement about The Underground Railroad?
Many Radical Republicans helped slaves escape.
Many Quakers helped slaves escape
Many abolitionist helped slaves escape.
Many Southern Democrats helped slaves escape.
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
Why did the radicals not approve of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
Granted too many rights to Freedmen
Did not allow for a quick way for the South to rejoin the Union
Offered amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the Union
Demanded payments from the South that would have damaged the economy
Abraham Lincoln made this speech in 1863 after a serious 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
At which fort did the first hostilities of the Civil War take place?
Fort Wagner
Fort Sumter
Fort Hood
For Warren
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. Often a person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist. A snakeoil salesman.
Northern Opportunist
Carpetbagger
Sharecropper
Northern Antagonizer
The name given to a faction in the U.S. Congress which advocated 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 set up schools and churches, supply food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the 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 (leave) 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
Created Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory and allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. The long-standing compromise would have to be repealed. The North was outraged. The passage of this Act and the violence that followed have been thought to have hastened the Country into Civil War.
Missouri Compromise (of 1820)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Law
Secession by the Southern States
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
1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate
Harriet Tubman
Crispus Attucks
Frederick Douglass
Hiram Rhodes Revels
What/why was the Union fighting for?
To keep the Union[America] whole & End slavery
To keep the confederation strong & keep Slavery
True or False: Abraham Lincoln wanted the South to be Punished severely for their actions during the civil war?
TRUE
FALSE
A system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work?
Debt Passage
Debt Sharing
Debt Peonage
The action of making a person or thing American in character or nationality: Example: Native Americans being forced to convert religions, speak English, and dress like "white" settlers.
Colonizing
Individualism
Destructrilism
Americanization
President Polk won the Election of 1844 by a landslide because...
He was the only person running for President
He was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny
He was a "Common Man" and people felt connected to him
He actually didn't win, Henry Clay was the 11th President
Letter 'E" marks which of the following:
United States in 1783
Mexican Cession
Texas
The Louisiana Purchase
Why was the area marked by letter "C" added to the U.S.?
The U.S. needed to flat terrain to build the Transcontinental Railroad
The U.S. won the area after the border disputes were settled
Mexico just gave the land to the U.S. in order to preserve peace
The U.S. had always owned the land
Which area of land was added in 1803?
A
C
E
D
Which area of land was acquired in 1848 after a conflict with Mexico?
A
B
C
E
What state was given to the U.S. as part of the Adam-Onis treaty with Spain in 1819?
Texas
California
Florida
Oregon
When the U.S. acquired land area "A" it had reached it's goal of....
Taking over all of Spain's Territory
Taking over all of Mexico's Territory
Pushing Great Britain out of North America
Reaching the Pacific Ocean
All of the following were causes of the U.S.-Mexico War EXCEPT:
The Annexation of Texas
The U.S. claims to Oregon
Border disputes between the U.S. and Mexico
What land area was acquired after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
A
B
C
D
The Homestead Act offered free land in hopes to encourage what?
western settlement of the U.S.
nothing
people from the west to move back east
people from the South to move to the North
What group of people settled in present day Utah after leaving the east coast because of religious persecution?
The Catholics
The Mormons
The Forty-Niners
Spanish Settlers
Manifest Destiny offered many people...
Economic Opportunity
Nothing
More Factory Jobs
New Technological Innovations
What state boomed in 1849 due to the Gold Rush?
Texas
Florida
Oregon
California
Which of the following was not a reason to support Manifest Destiny?
Hatred of Foreign Nations
Economic Opportunity
To open new markets of trade
to spread the U.S. style of government (Democracy)
What was the start point for most trails west?
St. Louis/Independence Missouri
Salt Lake City Utah
San Francisco California
Boston Massachusetts
