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Practice Quiz - Civil War and Reconstruction

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

a)

Secessionist

b)

Lincolnist

c)

Abolitionist

d)

Whig

2.

This means that the people get to decide on an issue, including whether or not to allow slavery in their territory

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Popular Sovereignty

c)

Secede

d)

Congress

3.

The US Supreme Court decided that this man was still just a slave, even though he had lived in a free territory, setting the stage for slavery to be legal everywhere

a)

Uncle Tom

b)

Tony Stark

c)

Dred Scott

d)

Brown v Board

4.

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

5.

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

a)

Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws

b)

Slavery

c)

Lincoln winning the election of 1860

d)

Westward Expansion

e)

All of the above

6.

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

7.

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)

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

d)

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

8.

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)

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

d)

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

9.

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

a)

Cheat Codes

b)

Morse Codes

c)

Black Codes

d)

Nuclear Codes

10.

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:

a)

13th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

12th Amendment

11.

Lincoln's Lenient Reconstruction Plan.

a)

30% OFF

b)

10% Plan

c)

The Dab

d)

20% Plan

12.

The 15th Amendment states that a person cannot be denied the right to vote based on ____________________.

a)

race

b)

previous condition of servitude

c)

both

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

What was the primary reason for the adoption of this amendment in 1868?

a)
To establish the right to vote for all citizens
b)
To abolish slavery
c)
To declare independence from Britain
d)
To provide equal protection under the law
17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

In which document did President Lincoln declare that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be set free?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Jim Crow Laws

22.

What were the laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States called?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Jim Crow Laws

23.
The amendment that granted African-American men the right to vote. 
a)
12th
b)
13th
c)
14th
d)
15th
24.
A government organization put in place to support former slaves in getting a food, home, education, etc. 
a)
Freedmen's Bureau
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Black Codes
d)
KKK
25.

A nickname for someone from the North who moved south after the Civil War to support Reconstruction

a)
carpetbagger
b)
scalawag
c)
Klan Member
d)
Radical Republican
26.
Which laws allowed Union Soldiers to supervise the south during Reconstruction?
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
the Voting Rights Act
c)
the Amnesty Act
d)
the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Military Reconstruction Act
27.

What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish?

a)

punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies

b)

punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedmen

c)

to secede from the Union

d)

to reinstate the practice of slavery