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Unit 4 Review- Leading for Change (Civil War and Reconstruction)

Total questions: 118

Worksheet time: 2hrs 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

-The division of the South into military districts

-The impeachment of the president

-The ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments


Which era in U.S. history is represented by the list above?

a)

The Jacksonian Era

b)

The Federalist Era

c)

The Revolutionary Era

d)

The Reconstruction Era

2.

The image above best represents which U.S. history era

a)

Reform Movements

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Colonial Period

3.

Which era focuses on the rising sectional difference between the North and South, such as Dred Scott v. Stanford, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Compromise of 1850?

a)

Road to Revolution

b)

U.S. Constitution

c)

Road to Civil War

d)

Reconstruction

4.

In 1860, __________ was elected President.

a)

George Washington

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

John Adams

5.

What was the effect of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?

a)

It freed enslaved people in areas of the Confederate states that were still fighting against the Union.

b)

It gave all US citizens equal treatment under the law.

c)

It ended slavery in the United States after the Civil War.

d)

It gave African American men the right to vote.

6.

After the Civil War, this amendment gave all United States citizens equal treatment under the law.

a)

Thirteenth

b)

Fourteenth

c)

Fifteenth

d)

Sixteenth

7.

In 1870, this amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

a)

Thirteenth

b)

Fourteenth

c)

Fifteenth

d)

Sixteenth

8.

The US government set up this service in 1865 to provide food, clothing, and education to people in need throughout the South.

a)

Free Bureau

b)

Salvation Army

c)

Freedmen's Schools

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

9.
Which of the following is an effect of the Civil War?
a)
the Missouri Compromise
b)
Bleeding Kansas
c)
the Gettysburg Address
d)
Reconstruction
10.
Identify what the Emancipation Proclamation did.
a)
freed slaves in the Confederate states
b)
ended slavery in the entire country
c)
freed slaves in the border states
d)
ended the Civil War
11.

What event led to Southern states seceding from the Union?

a)

Confederates fired on Fort Sumter

b)

the election of Lincoln as President

c)

The Missouri Compromise

d)

the annexation of Texas

12.
When was the Civil War fought?
a)
1855-1861
b)
1860-1877
c)
1861-1865
d)
1863-1868
13.

The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments are a part of the _______.

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Civil War Act

c)

Freemen Act

d)

Anti-slavery Act

14.

The Freedmen's Bureau helped provide all of the following EXCEPT to African Americans.

a)

Education

b)

Food

c)

Homes

d)

Money

15.

Which of the following was an effect of the slavery debate?

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Civil War

c)

Increased tariffs

d)

15th amendment

16.
The economy of the South was ________________.
a)
Industrial
b)
Agricultural and Industrial
c)
Agricultural
d)
Poor
17.
What was the 14th Amendment?
a)
Made everyone born in the US a citizen
b)
Banned Slavery
c)
Allowed all men to vote
d)
Allowed all people to vote
18.
What was the 15th Amendment?
a)
Ended Slavery
b)
Everyone born in the US is a citizen
c)
All males can vote
d)
All people can vote
19.
Which battle gave Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
a)
Gettysburg
b)
Antietam
c)
Appomattox Court House
d)
Vicksburg
20.
What was the significance of the First Battle of Bull Run?
a)
It proved that the South was weak.
b)
It showed that the North would win.
c)
It proved that a quick victory was impossible.
d)
It showed that the armies were unwilling to fight long battles.
21.
Who was the Union general in the West that gained the only victories for the Union?
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
William Tecumseh Sherman
c)
Stonewall Jackson
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
22.
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that
a)
slaves in U.S. territories were free.
b)
slaves throughout the world were free.
c)
slaves in Confederate states were free.
d)
slaves in Union slave states were free.
23.
What laws were created after the 13th Amendment to restrict African Americans in the South?
a)
black codes
b)
Jim Crow laws
c)
segregation bill
24.
What system allowed for a farmer to rent land and tools from a landowner in exchange for a portion of the crops at harvest?
a)
sharecropping
b)
plantation system
c)
tenant farming
25.
What group of people controlled Congress during the years after the Civil War?
a)
Radical Republicans
b)
Moderate Republicans
c)
Liberal Republicans
26.
True or False: The Compromise of 1877 allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president.
a)
True
b)
False
27.
What required a fee to vote?
a)
poll tax
b)
15th Amendment
c)
literacy test
28.
Which Supreme Court case set the standard of "separate but equal"?
a)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
b)
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
c)
Baker vs. Carr
29.
 Who led the second phase of Reconstruction in the South?
a)
Radical Republicans
b)
Democrats
c)
Whigs
d)
Democratic-Republicans
30.
Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clauses, and Poll Taxes were all methods used in the South after the Civil War to prevent African Americans from
a)
Attending College
b)
Owning Property
c)
Running for Political Office
d)
Voting
31.
Which of the following is not a reason the Battle of Gettysburg was important?
a)
It was a turning point in the war.

b)
It was the site of the Gettysburg Address.
c)
It was a key victory for the Confederate Army.
d)
All of the above are reasons the Battle of Gettysburg was important.
32.
Which of the following events happened first?
a)
The first Battle of Bull Run
b)
The Battle of Antietam
c)
Southern states secede
d)
The Emancipation Proclamation
33.
Which of the following statements is true?
a)
The South’s economy was based on industry and manufacturing; the North’s economy was based  on farming

b)
The North’s economy was based on industry and manufacturing; the South’s economy was based on farming
c)
The North and South both had an economy based on farming.
d)
The North and South both had an economy based on industry and manufacturing.
34.

Creator of the Presidential Reconstruction plan that was lenient to former Confederate leaders, allowing them to to reclaim power and implement black codes in the South. Impeached and nearly removed from the Office of President.

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

John Johnson

35.

As reconstruction ended and white southerners regained power, they worked to strip African Americans of their voting and civil rights. One way was to require a fee to be paid before voting. Many poor African Americans could not use their limited means to vote, giving more power to white southerners.

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Literacy Test

c)

Voter Fee Act

d)

Sharecropping

36.

As reconstruction ended and white southerners regained power, they worked to strip African Americans of their voting and civil rights. One way was to require voters to demonstrate that they could read and write in order to vote. This impacted many African Americans that had been denied educational opportunities during the period of slavery.

a)

Poll Tax

b)

Literacy Test

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

d)

Segregation

37.

Secret society that resorted to violence and terror in order to maintain power; they used verbal threats and violence to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting.

a)

al Qaeda

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Ku Klux Klan

38.

This reconstruction amendment officially abolished slavery; all reconstruction plans required that southern states ratify this amendment in order to rejoin the government.

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

39.

This reconstruction amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This amendment was designed to protect the right to vote of African Americans, yet southern states found ways around it like poll taxes and literacy tests.

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

40.

In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court determined that no state could ban slavery because slaves were property. Who did this decision anger?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

Both

d)

Neither

41.

In the Civil War...which side did Robert E. Lee fight for as a general?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

Both

d)

Neither

42.

In the Civil War...which side did Ulysses S. Grant fight for as a general?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

Both

d)

Neither

43.
To break away from a group
a)
state's rights
b)
slavery
c)
Gettysburg
d)
secede
44.
The purpose of the Union's blockade of South Carolina's coastline during the Civil War was__________________________________. (3-4.5) 
a)
to steal shipments of cotton
b)
to stop supplies from entering the state
c)
 to be in position to attack southern states 
d)
 to make it easier to transport soldiers from place to place
45.

What was Reconstruction?

a)

equal treatment for all people

b)

the forced separation of races

c)

a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land

d)

the period of time after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt

46.

___________________ is an arrangement in which a person grows crops on someone else's land.

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Emancipation

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Slavery

47.

The holiday of Juneteenth is__________________.

a)

a celebration of dancing.

b)

a celebration for the eday all the slaves were free in South Carolina.

c)

a celebration for the day all the slaves were free in Texas.

d)

a celebration for the end of the Civil War.

48.

Identify what a tariff is.

a)

A share of land.

b)

A law made for the confederate states.

c)

A way for the south to rebuild.

d)

A tax paid on goods that come from a different country.

49.

This state was the first to secede...

a)

Texas

b)

South Carolina

c)

Louisiana

d)

Kansas

50.

Who continually made compromises in Congress to keep the North and South working together?

a)

John Brown

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Henry Clay

d)

Frederick Douglas

51.

Why would the South not want high tariffs?

a)

They don't want the West to be richer.

b)

They hate taxes.

c)

They don't want the competition.

d)

It reduces their ability to sell their cash crops.

52.

Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river; as long as Hayes became the president

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Radicial Republican Reconstruction

c)

Compromise of 1877

d)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

53.

What punished the south, protected former slaves; US military occupation of South, Confederate military leaders needed pardon to hold office, protected Blacks right to vote?

a)

Congressional Reconstruction

b)

Presidential Reconstruction

c)

Radical Republican Reconstruction

d)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

54.

Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the North in the Civil War?

a)

Railroads

b)

Industrialization

c)

Well Trained Army

d)

Population

55.

Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the south:

a)

Commitment to the Cause

b)

Population

c)

Defensive War

d)

Better Trained Army

56.

General Sherman defeated the south using this tactic:

a)

Total War

b)

Guerilla Warfare

c)

The Anaconda Plan

d)

Emancipation of Slaves

57.

What were the major causes of the Civil War? (List all that apply)

a)

Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws

b)

Slavery

c)

Westward Expansion

d)

Lincoln winning the election of 1860

e)

All of these

58.

As a result of ______, Lincoln rebrands the cause away from preserving the union to ending slavery; a turning point in the Civil War.

a)

The Battle of Fort Sumter

b)

Sherman's March to the Sea

c)

The Battle of Antietam

d)

Gettysburg Address

59.

What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.

a)

The 14th Amendment

b)

The 16th Amendment

c)

The 13th Amendment

d)

The 15th Amendment

60.

What compromise settled the intensely debated Election of 1876: Hayes vs Tilden and formally ended Reconstruction in the south with Hayes becoming president?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1877

d)

Compromise of 1820

61.

What practice was established in America by the landmark Supreme Court Case Plessy Versus Ferguson.

a)

Separate but Equal segregation

b)

Freedom of the Press

c)

Slaves were property and not citizens

d)

Separation of Church and State

62.

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is:

a)

A policy that gave Freed Slaves who helped the North during the war 40 acres and a mule

b)

A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy land owners and tied to the land

c)

Allowing Freed Slaves the ability to work land without having to buy it or pay for their supplies to help them get ahead after Slavery ended

d)

A system from the Freedmen's Bureau to allow economically disadvantaged people in the south the opportunity to own land

63.

What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Separate but Equal Doctrine

b)

Sharecropping

c)

The Grandfather laws

d)

Black Codes

64.

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:

a)

The 13th Amendment

b)

The 14th Amendment

c)

The 15th Amendment

d)

The 16th Amendment

65.

What was the capital of the Confederate States?

a)

Richmond, VA

b)

Poormond, PA

c)

Gettysburg, PA

d)

Tallahassee, FL

66.

Who was president of the Confederate States during the war?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

John Adams

d)

Alexander Hamilton

67.

Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the North?

a)

More factories

b)

Larger population

c)

Better railroads

d)

Most of the nation's best generals

68.

The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort on April 12, 1861

a)

Fort Benning

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Fort Belvoire

d)

Fort Pierce

69.

What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.

a)

12th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

13th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

70.

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

a)

rebuilding the US after a big earthquake

b)

a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War

c)

a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

d)

unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

71.

Lincoln's Lenient Reconstruction Plan.

a)

30% OFF

b)

10% Plan

c)

The Dab

d)

20% Plan

72.

___________________ wanted African Americans to have full citizenship.

a)

Carpet Baggers

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

Radical Republicans

73.
At Lincoln's Inaugural Speech, he stated his main goal was?
a)
end slavery
b)
keep the country united
c)
keep the country  divided
d)
stop the spread of slavery
74.
The first shots of the U.S. Civil War were fired at?
a)
Fort Wagoner
b)
Fort Tejon
c)
Fort Miller
d)
Fort Sumter
75.
This was the first major battle of the war and afterwards everyone knew the war would be long?
a)
Battle of Stone's River
b)
Battle of Gettysburg
c)
Battle of 1st Bull Run
d)
Battle of Vicksburg
76.
This battle was the turning point of the war, the South's lost its ability to attack. Name that battle?
a)
Appomattox Courthouse
b)
Battle of the Wilderness
c)
Battle of Gettysburg
d)
Battle of Shiloh
77.
What was the speech Lincoln gave to get Americans to recommit to the ideals of freedom and equality?
a)
Lincoln's Inaugural Speech
b)
Gettysburg Address
c)
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural
d)
Emancipation Proclamation
78.
What victory gave the North(Union) control over the Mississippi River?
a)
Battle of Antietam Creek
b)
Battle of Fort Doneleson
c)
Battle of the Potomac
d)
Battle of Vicksburg
79.
What was the name of the military campaign that destroyed large areas of the South?
a)
"The March To The Sea"
b)
The South's Destruction
c)
Operation Dumbo
d)
Burn the South
80.
Who became the winning general for the North and later became president?
a)
General U.S. Grant
b)
General Meade
c)
General Taylor
d)
General Sherman
81.
Where did General Lee offer his formal surrender to General thus ending the U.S. Civil War?
a)
Bull Run City Hall
b)
Washington D.C.
c)
Appomattox Courthouse
d)
Richmond, Virginia
82.
The first and only President of the Confederate States of America was______________________. (3-4.4) 
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Jefferson Davis
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
83.
Former slave, Robert Smalls, impacted the Civil War by_________________________________ . (3-4.4)   
a)
helping General Sherman invade the city of Atlanta
b)
 writing the peace terms at the end of the Civil War
c)
giving Confederate military information to the Union
d)
inventing the first submarine, the Hunley
84.
The action which destroyed land, property, and morale in order to convince the southern people to endthe warwas________________________________________________.(3-4.4)   
a)
General Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
b)
 the blockade of the Charleston port
c)
the attack on Fort Sumter
d)
the Secession Convention
85.
Elite plantation owners lost much of their wealth as a result of the war because_______________.(3-4.5) 
a)
they were not able to export their cotton due to the blockade
b)
they lost property when the Union army freed their slaves and burned their buildings
c)
 their Confederate bonds and currency became worthless when the South lost the war
d)
All of the above
86.
Reconstruction was a time when________________________________________.   
a)
burned forts were rebuilt by slaves
b)
the federal government protected the rights of the newly freed slaves
c)
 towns and cities developed their own governments
d)
new weapons were given to Confederate soldiers
87.
Northerners who moved to the South as missionaries or for economic opportunities were called__________________________________. (3-4.6)    
a)
scalawags
b)
slaves
c)
sharecroppers
d)
carpetbaggers
88.
President Lincoln’s first plan for Reconstruction failed because____________________________. (3-4.6)  
a)
Confederate leaders were still in power
b)
 there was no Constitution
c)
there was interference from carpetbaggers
d)
 the plantation system had collapsed
89.
When Congress passed the 15thamendment___________________________________________.    
a)
African Americans were given the right to vote
b)
slavery was abolished
c)
women became landowners
d)
a new Constitution was established
90.
Following the end of Reconstruction, federal troops withdrew from the southern states. As a result,_________________________________________.(3-4.6)    
a)
a system of sharecropping was developed which used African American workers
b)
the 13th and 14th amendments were passed to protect African Americans
c)
the Civil Rights Movement was started to fight discrimination
d)
white leaders passed laws to limit the rights of African Americans
91.

Who was the leader of the Confederacy troops?

a)

General Sam Houston

b)

General Robert E. Lee

c)

General William B. Travis

d)

General Ulysses S. Grant

92.

The Civil War was mostly about ___.

a)

slavery

b)

sharecropping

c)

reconstruction

d)

tariffs

93.

A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction.

a)

Scalawag

b)

Unionist

c)

Sovereign

d)

Sectionalism

94.

Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War.

a)

Black Codes

b)

Secede

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Home Front

95.

Why was Ida fired from teaching?

a)

She got arrested

b)

She called out bad school conditions

c)

She was a bad teacher

d)

No one liked her

96.

What caused Ida B. Wells to get an award in 2020?

a)

A.She started the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

b)

B.She inspired young women to become activists and fight for the right to vote.

c)

C.She had been a courageous reporter throughout her career as a journalist.

d)

D.She had recently died after working for years to fight injustice in the United States.

97.

Suffrage is

a)

the right to ride a train

b)

standing up for what is right

c)

the right to vote

d)

suffering

98.

Begins the process of removing the president from office: Andrew Johnson 1st president to do this

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Impeachment

c)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

d)

Radical Republicans

99.

1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

100.

Restricted by southern states through Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Grandfather Clause

a)

Voting Rights

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Black Codes

d)

Impeachment

101.

Gave away free federal land to settlers

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Morrill Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

102.

Divided up Native American lands into sections for individual Natives to own and sold the rest

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Morrill Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

103.

 First African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress, elected by the Mississippi legislature.

a)

Hiram Revels

b)

Blanche K. Bruce

c)

Thaddeus Stevens

104.

Abolitionist and member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. One of the leaders of the Radical Republicans who championed the rights of blacks up to, during, and after the Civil War.

a)

Hiram Revels

b)

Blanche K. Bruce

c)

Thaddeus Stevens

105.

____ was a name for people from the South that embraced the North and its plan for Reconstruction

a)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Scalawags

106.

___ was a name for people from the North that came into the South to take advantage of Southerners during Reconstruction.

a)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Scalawags

107.

The first elected African American Senator was ________.

a)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Scalawags

108.

Who won the 1876 Election

a)

Wade Hampton

b)

Rutherford B Hayes

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Robert Smalls

109.

Who was the first African-American Senator

a)

Joseph Rainey

b)

Hiram Revels

c)

Barack Obama

d)

Muammar Gaddafi

110.

Joseph Rainey was the first black man to hold what position in Congress

a)

Lobbyist

b)

US House of Representative

c)

Senator

d)

President

111.

In what year was Plessy vs Ferguson court case?

(a)  

112.

What was Robert Smalls position in US Government?

a)

Governor

b)

US House of Representative

c)

Lawyer

d)

Senator

113.

She was born into a poor South Carolina family, but was determined to get an education. She later became a teacher and started a school for African-American students.

a)

Mary Washington

b)

Mary L. Roosevelt

c)

Mary McLeod Bethune

114.

Which idea was important to Mary McLeod Bethune because in her town, African-American children did not receive the same quality of education as white children.

a)

Equal education

b)

Great teachers

c)

Large schools

115.

Why did Mary want to open a school for African American children?

a)

She loved to teach when she was young.

b)

She believed that all children had a right to a good education.

c)

Her mother was a teacher.

116.
Mary McLeod Bethune had a vision that African American women could be successful by 
a)
getting an education. 
b)
writing like Phyllis Wheatley. 
c)
protesting. 
d)
waiting for the law to allow equal treatment. 
117.
Mary McLeod Bethune was a 
a)
Civil Rights leader
b)
African American Educator
c)
member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet 
d)
All of the above
118.
Mary Bethune was invited to the White House to give advice on what?
a)
The New Deal
b)
The 19th Amendment
c)
The Civil Rights Act
d)
education

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