WorksheetsThe Civil War and Reconstruction
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Loyalty to a region
a)
Sectionalism
b)
Carpetbaggers
c)
Bleeding Kansas
d)
Nationalism
2.
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
a)
Nationalism
b)
Sharecropping
c)
Sectionalism
d)
Freedman
3.
to withdraw
a)
Secede
b)
Tariff
c)
states' rights
d)
Nationalism
4.
Slave of army surgeon who sued for his freedom after he argued that he became free when he lived in a free territory.
a)
Dredd Scott
b)
Secede
c)
Freedman
d)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
5.
a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
a)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
b)
Bleeding Kansas
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Sharecropping
6.
1850 law meant to help slaveholders recaptures runaway slaves
a)
Fugative Slave Act
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Black Codes
7.
"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
black codes
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Dredd Scott
8.
United States of America, specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states and 5 border states that supported it. Had factories
a)
The North (The Union)
b)
The South (Confederacy)
c)
Sectionalism
d)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
9.
the states that wanted to keep slavery. Jefferson Davis was the president. Relied more on farming.
a)
The South (Confederacy)
b)
The North (The Union)
c)
Secede
d)
Ku Klux Klan
10.
the right of states to limit the power of the federal government
a)
states' rights
b)
Sharecropping
c)
Tariff
d)
Nationalism
11.
the point of view that the national government should have relatively more power than the states
a)
National Supremacy
b)
Sectionalism
c)
Fugative Slave Act
d)
Missouri Compromise
12.
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
a)
Compromise of 1850
b)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
c)
Freedman
d)
Missouri Compromise
13.
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
a)
Bleeding Kansas
b)
black codes
c)
Sectionalism
d)
Ku Klux Klan
14.
A tax on imported goods
a)
Tariff
b)
Bleeding Kansas
c)
Dredd Scott
d)
poll tax
15.
A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote
a)
poll tax
b)
Sectionalism
c)
Tariff
d)
Dredd Scott
16.
A person who has been freed from slavery
a)
Freedman
b)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
c)
Sectionalism
d)
Dredd Scott
17.
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
a)
black codes
b)
Fugitive Slave Act
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
states' rights
18.
Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War for political or financial gain during Reconstruction. Southerners saw them with hate and vengeance.
a)
Carpetbaggers
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Freedmen
d)
states' rights
19.
A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
a)
Sharecropping
b)
states' rights
c)
Freedman
d)
black codes
20.
A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
a)
Ku Klux Klan
b)
states' rights
c)
Carpetbaggers
d)
Freedman
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