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Civil War and Reconstruction

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 9mins

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Class
Date
1.

The process of rebuilding and transforming the South after the Civil War was called...

a)

Reconstruction.

b)

disenfranchisement.

c)

segregation.

d)

sharecropping.

2.

Which of the following ended slavery in the United States?

a)

the Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Thirteenth Amendment

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

d)

Fifteenth Amendment

3.

What were some methods used by white settlers to keep free African Americans from exercising their rights after the Civil War?

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4.

Assume that the star on the map represents a city. In 1862, this city would have been part of...

a)

the Confederacy.

b)

the Union

c)

Reconstruction.

d)

a pro-slavery and anti-slavery state where forces battled for control.

5.

After his election, this president went on to end slavery.

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

George Washington

d)

Abraham Lincoln

6.

What was the cause for the Southern states to secede?

a)

Lincoln's election of 1860

b)

They didn't like the clothes the North wore

c)

The North was taking all of the slaves from the South because they needed help farming

7.

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

a)

an important agency of the early Reconstruction Era that assisted former slaves in the South.

b)

place for free men to write letters

8.

Which is a secret organization that used threats, violence, and murder to intimidate African Americans?

a)

KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

b)

The Freedman's Bureau

c)

The Civil Rights Activists

d)

The Confederates

9.

Which was the site of the Confederate surrender?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Vicksburg

c)

Charleston

d)

Appomattox Court House

10.

The general in charge of the entire Union Army was:

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Robert E Lee

c)

Ulysses Grant

d)

Jefferson Davis

11.

The battle at Ft. Sumter was significant because:

a)

Jefferson Davis cut off supplies to the Union, shortening the war.

b)

it showed the war was going to be harder to win than the Union thought.

c)

it started the Civil War.

d)

it ended the Civil War.

12.

After Reconstruction, what established segregation, or separation of the races, and reinforced prejudices held by whites?

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Civil War