WorksheetsCivil war and reconstruction review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Cause of the Civil War: Some Americans felt more loyal to their region than to America.
a)
Sectionalism
b)
States' Rights
c)
Slavery
d)
Lincoln's Election
2.
Cause of the Civil War: Some states believed they could choose which laws to follow.
a)
Sectionalism
b)
States' Rights
c)
Slavery
d)
Lincoln's Election
3.
Cause of the Civil War: The South relied on forced, free labor.
a)
Sectionalism
b)
States' Rights
c)
Slavery
d)
Lincoln's Election
4.
Cause of the Civil War: The South said if this happened, they would secede.
a)
Sectionalism
b)
States' Rights
c)
Slavery
d)
Lincoln's Election
5.
This map represents which cause of the Civil War?
a)
Sectionalism
b)
States' Rights
c)
Slavery
d)
Lincoln's Election
6.
This image represents which cause of the Civil War?
a)
Sectionalism
b)
States' Rights
c)
Slavery
d)
Lincoln's Election
7.
This image represents which cause of the Civil War?
a)
Sectionalism
b)
States' Rights
c)
Slavery
d)
Lincoln's Election
8.
Which came first?
a)
The South seceded
b)
Slavery was ended
9.
Which came first?
a)
The South surrendered
b)
Lincoln was elected president
10.
Which came first?
a)
Lincoln is elected President
b)
War is declared
11.
This image represents which American idea?
a)
Democracy
b)
Republic
c)
Open Borders
d)
Manifest Destiny
12.
What is the name of the American idea that it was God's will for the country to spread from coast to coast?
a)
Democracy
b)
Republic
c)
Open Borders
d)
Manifest Destiny
13.
True or False? The 15th Amendment gave women the right to vote.
a)
True
b)
False
14.
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
15.
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
16.
Which of the following was not a cause that led to the Civil War?
a)
sectionalism
b)
slavery
c)
agriculture
d)
states' rights
17.
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
18.
The Freedmen's Bureau helped provide all of the following EXCEPT to African Americans.
a)
Education
b)
Food
c)
Homes
d)
Money
19.
What was the 13th Amendment?
a)
Allowed all men to vote
b)
Banned Slavery
c)
Made everyone equal
d)
Allowed slavery in the North
20.
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
21.
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
22.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
a)
Agency that gave houses to anyone who lost their home in the war
b)
A bank
c)
Agency that helped newly freed slaves start a new life
d)
A lawyer's office
23.
What was life like for African Americans (freed slaves) after the war?
a)
Easy, they were now free
b)
Easy but hard to find a house and job
c)
Hard, often unfair, had to fight for rights
d)
Hard to find jobs, but everything was equal
24.
__________________________ means to formally leave the United States.
a)
Segregate
b)
Sectionalism
c)
Secede
d)
Separate
25.
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
26.
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
27.
1850 law meant to help slaveholders recaptures runaway slaves
a)
Fugative Slave Act
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Black Codes
28.
"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
29.
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
30.
the right of states to limit the power of the federal government
a)
states' rights
b)
Sharecropping
c)
Tariff
d)
Nationalism
31.
(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
32.
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
33.
A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote
a)
poll tax
b)
Sectionalism
c)
Tariff
d)
Dredd Scott
34.
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
35.
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
36.
Someone who wanted to end slavery in the U.S. was called a(an):
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Freedman's Bureau
c)
Abolitionist
d)
A Missouri Compromiser
37.
The Union's plan for victory in the Civil War by blocking Southern seaports and gaining control of the Mississippi River was called:
a)
Anaconda Plan
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Missouri Compromise
38.
Which battle gave Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
a)
Gettysburg
b)
Antietam
c)
Appomattox Court House
d)
Vicksburg
39.
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.
40.
What is total war?
a)
a military strategy that includes destroying the enemy's ability and will to fight
b)
a military strategy that includes flanking the enemy
c)
a military strategy used by Robert E. Lee
d)
a military strategy put into effect by Southern Generals
100 %
