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WorksheetsCivil War Recon review 2
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 30mins
Which era accord after the Civil War?
War of 1812
American Revolution
Civil War
Reconstruction
This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...
establish churches to provide aid in the Southern states.
reunify the former Confederate States and to craft a plan to readmit them to the Union.
establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.
abolish former Confederate governments and to punish former Confederate leaders.
Which of the following were challenges experienced by African Americans following the Civil War? (SELECT ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)
Racial terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan
Lack of a formal education or employment opportunities
Limitations of 13th Amendment freedoms through Black Codes
Enjoyment of civil rights and the ability to participate in the government through voting
Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
African American families divided by slavery were reunited
Newly free men and women moved west to claim land
African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election
Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship
After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -
punish plantation owners for the use of slavery
support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South
promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau
limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to -
Establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves
Mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners
Abolish the institution of slavery
Protect the voting rights of African American men
Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?
The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The positions taken int he Know-Nothing Party Platform
The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War
The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation
What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?
Agricultural workers organized labor unions
Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt
Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses
Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves
The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?
Twelfth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by -
Providing them with voting rights
Guaranteeing their freedom of speech
Providing them with access to the court system
Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery
The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to -
win an election as a member of the Democratic Party
win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi
serve as a member of the U.S. Senate
run for public office in the South
"Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freedmen, such as prohibiting the right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, and limiting their right to testify against white men. They were also forbidden from carrying weapons and working in certain occupations."
Southern states passed the codes described in this excerpt in order to -
limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments
Increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North
decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress
improve relations with the Democratic Party
Which of these describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?
African Americans in the north could vote
State governments were required to protect individual rights
Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office
African Americans in the South could freely move elsewhere
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses
The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the -
Compromise of 1850
Fifteenth Amendment
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
Freedmen's Bureau:
- Provided food, shelter, and clothing
- Negotiated and enforced labor contracts
- ___________________
Which of the following best completes this list?
Established schools for African Americans
Certified applications for political office
Granted small-business loans
Provided funds for farming supplies
Select the era which the Radical Republicans wanted to protect former slaves?
Reconstruction Era
European and Colonization Era
Reform Era
Civil War Era
This political cartoon comments on events that occurred during the -
Reconstruction Era
Age of Jackson
Second Great Awakening
Civil War
Why were the southern states divided into 5 military districts?
To protect the freedmen in the north.
To make sure the former slaves individual rights are protected
To help former slaves apply for federal jobs.
What was the effect of the black codes?
They created a new form of slavery after the Civil War
They allowed for the emancipation of southern slaves
They established a way for freed slaves to own land
They eliminated one cause of sectionalism
Laws that restricted the freedom of African Americans are called___________ _________.
Black Codes
property laws
water laws
the 14th Amendment
What was a direct result of the sharecropping system?
The diversification of Southern agriculture
The economic independence of former slaves
The perpetuation of poverty among African Americans
The decline of agricultural production in the South
What was the main purpose of the sharecropping system that emerged in the South after the Civil War?
To allow former slaves to become landowners
To divide large plantations into small farms for former slaves
To bind former slaves into a cycle of debt and dependency
To encourage industrial development in the South
Which of the following was a consequence of the sharecropping system?
It led to widespread land ownership among African Americans
It resulted in economic dependency and debt for many African Americans
It eliminated racial discrimination in the South
It promoted rapid industrial growth in the Southern states
Which event led to the action shown in this illustration?
The revival of nativist policies
The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson
The rise of Social Darwinism
Read the Fifteenth Amendment - "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
This amendment was meant to grant voting rights to which group of people?
formerly enslaved African Americans
tax-paying plantation owners
newly arrived immigrants
white women
What methods were used to strip African Americans of their right to vote in the 19th century?
Ku Klux Klan
Literacy Test
Poll Taxes
photo identification cards
After the Battle of Antietam what did Abraham Lincoln declare to the southern states?
Emancipation proclamation
Gettysburg address
Monroe Doctrine
Declaration of Independence
Based on the picture and your knowledge of Social Studies, which of the explanations details the military plan and strategy of the Northern States?
The Union would surround the Confederate States and prevent any supplies or trade getting into them.
General Scott wanted to use a full-scale invasion of the South with Union troops.
The plan of the North was to get support from European Countries through trade of cotton goods.
Abraham Lincoln approved this plan because he believed it would end the war quickly by cutting off their supplies.
Based on the characteristics chart, which of the following people would these statements support?
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Based on the diagram and your knowledge of Social Studies, which of the following titles would complete the diagram below?
Advantages of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Disadvantages of the Union during the Civil War.
Advantages of the Union during the Civil War
Disadvantages of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Which of the following statements would complete the following report over Robert E. Lee?
General Lee would serve as the most trust advisor to General Thomas Jackson.
Admiral Lee would take up an appointment as a naval officer for the Confederate Navy.
As the main Confederate General, he led the Confederacy to victory in the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee was appointed to commander of the entire Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Confederates attacked the this fort, the Union surrendered. First shots of the war
Bull Run/ Manassas 1
Antietam
Appomattox Courhouse
Ft. Sumter
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the war because:
It triggered a four-day draft riot in New York City
The outcome convinced European nations to help the Confederacy.
Southern troops reached their northernmost point in Union territory.
Lee lost so many troops that he would never again invade the North.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Changed the course of the war, it made it about the issue of slavery as well as preserving the Union
Preserved the Union
Abolished slavery
Changed the mind of the Southerners about having slavery, and brought the war to an end
The Battle that was considered the "turning point" of the civil War was at----
Antietam
Gettysburg
Fort Sumter
Manassas
Southern General from Virginia who led the South's largest army.
