WorksheetsCivil War & Reconstruction REVIEW
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the goal of the Confederate States of America in fighting the Civil War?
a)
Conquer the Union states
b)
Be recognized as an independent country
c)
Reunite the USA
2.
What was the first goal of the United States of America in fighting the Civil War?
a)
Be recognized as an independent country
b)
Reunite the USA
c)
To get California into the South
3.
According to the bar graph and the pie chart, who had the greatest share of resources in the United States?
a)
Union
b)
Confederacy
c)
Great Britain
4.
A major challenge of the Union and Lincoln was keeping the border state of Maryland in the Union. Why did Lincoln want to keep Maryland so badly?
a)
Because if Maryland left the Union and joined the Confederacy there would be billions of soldiers fighting against the Union.
b)
Because if Maryland left the Union, Washington, D.C. would be cut off from the rest of the Union.
5.
Lincoln was a strong leader. He was not afraid to take away rights and ignore the Supreme Court in order to get the USA back together. What was one right that Lincoln took away from 10,000 people in the Union in order to keep Maryland in the Union?
a)
Right to privacy, he made citizens report to the army daily
b)
Right to bear arms, private citizens had to give up their weapons
c)
Habeas Corpus, get a trial or a protection against unlawful imprisonment
6.
Why did the poor Irish immigrants in New York City go on a rampage and riot in July 1863?
a)
Because so many people were killed in the Battle of New York City
b)
Being drafted into the army when the rich people could pay to get out of the draft
c)
They were mad they were not able to fight in the Battle of Gettysburg
7.
What did the military strategy of the Emancipation Proclamation do on January 1, 1863?
a)
It turned the ownership of plantations in the Confederacy to the federal government
b)
Freed enslaved Americans in areas of the South still fighting against the Union
c)
Declared the Confederate States of America as independent
8.
What was one of the things Lincoln asked of the country in the Gettysburg Address?
a)
To honor the dead soldiers by protecting a democratic government and fighting for equality
b)
To bury all of the dead soldiers of the Civil War in individual graves.
c)
To build monuments at every Civil War battle site.
9.
The Union war effort had not gone very well for Lincoln. Lincoln might have lost the Election of 1864 if the Union had not had two great victories before the November election. STUDY THE MAP to figure out which Union victories helped him win re-election.
a)
Appomattox Court House
b)
Atlanta and Mobile Bay
10.
Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress used the 1864 election victory as support for his policies. The 13th Amendment finishes what was said in the Gettysburg Address. What did the 13th Amendment do?
a)
End enslaving people
b)
defined who was a citizen of the USA
11.
What was total war?
a)
Union General Sherman’s strategy to destroy everything useful in between Atlanta, Atlantic Ocean and Richmond
b)
Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson’s strategy of standing like a stonewall
12.
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, Let us strive on to finish the work we are in." What work does Lincoln want to finish?
a)
Unifying the country and ending slavery
b)
Destroying the south and giving it to the enslaved people
13.
What does Lincoln's assassination confirm about many "Americans"?
a)
They were not going to give up on their racist ideas and were full of malice.
b)
They admitted they were wrong and begged forgiveness
c)
They stopped their beliefs proving that a country can defeat and idea
14.
One of the most important effects after the Civil War was that much of the southern cities and farmland was destroyed, it's money was worthless, and prices were super inflated. Which of the following can you infer?
a)
Rebuilding was going to be easy
b)
Slavery was over
c)
Rebuilding was going to be very difficult
15.
What agency helped freed African Americans by establishing schools?
a)
Reconstruction Bureau
b)
Wade-Davis Bill
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
16.
What happened to Lincoln only 6 days after General Lee surrendered to General Grant?
a)
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln
b)
Lincoln quit because it was going to be too hard to re-unite the South with the Union
c)
Lincoln was re-elected to his second term as president
17.
What were laws passed during President Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan reestablished slavery in disguise?
a)
Poll taxes
b)
Literacy tests
c)
Black codes
18.
What was one reason the Republican’s Radical Reconstruction was able to bring change to the South?
a)
Federal soldiers were stationed in the South to enforce new laws.
b)
White southerners supported the changes brought about by Radical Reconstruction.
19.
What amendment grants full citizenship and equal protection of the law to all individuals born in the United States?
a)
Thirteenth Amendment
b)
Fourteenth Amendment
c)
Fifteenth Amendment
20.
The Fifteenth Amendment says that states
a)
Cannot deny women the right to vote.
b)
Must end the practice of slavery.
c)
Cannot deny people the right to vote because of race.
21.
Why was the withdrawal of Union soldiers from the South after Reconstruction also called the “Great Betrayal”?
a)
Once the soldiers were gone, the men were able to begin farming and cotton became the most valuable US export again
b)
Once the soldiers were gone, there was no one to protect the fragile African American rights that 360,222 Union soldiers died trying to get
22.
Why were the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution only short-term effects?
a)
The US Congress passed the 16th Amendment to summarize the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
b)
Because Lincoln was assassinated.
c)
Because angry whites used violence against blacks and their allies.
23.
The Ku Klux Klan and other groups like it
a)
Stopped their activities after being outlawed.
b)
Helped to continue Reconstruction.
c)
helped stop African Americans from voting
24.
Why did the Amnesty Act change the political balance in the South away from the gains the African American voters made?
a)
by giving back full voting rights to people who supported the Democrats (former Confederates)?
b)
by extending the Fifteenth Amendment to all Americans
c)
by making the Reconstruction Act
25.
Study the Mississippi House of Representatives pie charts above. What was the effect of the Amnesty Act of 1872?
a)
The Democrats became the majority.
b)
The Republicans became the majority.
c)
The elections were fraudulent.
26.
Why were southern laws [poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clause] that stopped African Americans from voting NOT considered illegal?
a)
They were not public laws, so no one knew about them.
b)
They applied in theory to both whites and African Americans.
27.
What is a grandfather clause?
a)
If grandfather voted, then exempted from poll tax and literacy test.
b)
People had to read and explain the Constitution in order to vote
c)
Separation of the races
28.
What did the Jim Crow laws do?
a)
Expanded the rights granted to African Americans during Reconstruction.
b)
Led to segregation of the races.
c)
Were part of the Fourteenth Amendment
29.
Why was the Supreme Court's decision in the case Plessy v. Ferguson important? Plessy v. Ferguson...
a)
granted citizenship to Native Americans.
b)
allowed the south to remain unequal and divided.
c)
said separate facilities for races was illegal.
30.
What kind farm work did many freed slaves get that kept them in a life of poverty?
a)
Pig farming.
b)
Sharecropping.
c)
Cotton picking.
31.
According to Colonel Kirk, violence by the Ku Klux Klan against African Americans and their white supporters was _____ to stop because juries often _____.
a)
very difficult; were made up of Ku Klux Klan members
b)
quite easy; felt the evidence was very solid against the Ku Klux Klan
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