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WorksheetsCivil War and Reconstruction
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
The process of rebuilding and transforming the South after the Civil War was called...
Reconstruction.
disenfranchisement.
segregation.
sharecropping.
Which of the following ended slavery in the United States?
the Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
What were some methods used by white settlers to keep free African Americans from exercising their rights after the Civil War?
Assume that the star on the map represents a city. In 1862, this city would have been part of...
the Confederacy.
the Union
Reconstruction.
a pro-slavery and anti-slavery state where forces battled for control.
After his election, this president went on to end slavery.
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
What was the cause for the Southern states to secede?
Lincoln's election of 1860
They didn't like the clothes the North wore
The North was taking all of the slaves from the South because they needed help farming
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
an important agency of the early Reconstruction Era that assisted former slaves in the South.
place for free men to write letters
Which is a secret organization that used threats, violence, and murder to intimidate African Americans?
KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
The Freedman's Bureau
The Civil Rights Activists
The Confederates
Which was the site of the Confederate surrender?
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Charleston
Appomattox Court House
The general in charge of the entire Union Army was:
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E Lee
Ulysses Grant
Jefferson Davis
The battle at Ft. Sumter was significant because:
Jefferson Davis cut off supplies to the Union, shortening the war.
it showed the war was going to be harder to win than the Union thought.
it started the Civil War.
it ended the Civil War.
After Reconstruction, what established segregation, or separation of the races, and reinforced prejudices held by whites?
Freedmen's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
Sharecropping
Civil War
