1. How long after slavery ended was the
Constitution amended to allow African
Americans to vote?
2 years
3 years
5 years X
7 years
2. How did the Union plan to win the war?
cut off the South's trade with Europe X
make the war last a long time
ask for help from Britain and France
fight all the battles in Confederate states
3. When someone heard of Lincoln's death and
wrote about it her diary, why is it a primary
source?
because she was a Southerner
because she took part in Lincoln's murder
because she was a newspaper reporter
because she was writing at the time of Lincoln's
murder X
4. At which of the following locations did the
Union win an important battle?
Chancellorsville
Manassas Junction
Appomattox Court House
Vicksburg X
5. What was the significance of the Battle of
Mobile Bay?
After, Lincoln issued the Emancipation
Proclamation
Afterward the Confederacy was unable to launch
an attack.
The Confederacy lost Stonewall Jackson, an
important general
The Union captured the Confederacy's last major
port X
6. Whose plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish
the South?
Congress's plan X
President Hayes's plan
President Johnson's plan
President Lincoln's plan
7. Which of the following made African
Americans citizens of the United States?
the Freedmen's Bureau
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the end of Reconstruction
the Fourteenth Amendment X
the Emancipation Proclamation
8. What was the result of President Johnson's
impeachment trial?
He fired the Secretary of War.
He was found guilty and was impeached by
Grant.
He was acquitted but lost respect. X
He appointed African Americans to the Senate.
9. What helped provide former enslaved people
with an education?
the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment
the establishment of black codes
creation of the Freedmen's Bureau X
the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
10. How did the end of Reconstruction change
life in the South?
White southerners lost control of their state
governments.
African Americans lost many of the rights they
had gained. X
The South's economy was stronger than it had
been before.
The plantation system of agriculture was restored.
11. What was the practice created by Jim Crow
laws?
Reconstruction
address
segregation X
freedmen
12. What were the people called who had been
enslaved?
freedmen X
Reconstruction
black code
segregation
13. What is the name of the period following the
Civil War?
address
black codes
Reconstruction X
address
14. What were the laws limiting the rights of
formerly enslaved people?
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freedom
address
Reconstruction
black codes X
15. What is a short speech?
segregation
black codes
freedmen
address X
16. How did the Emancipation Proclamation help
the North in the Civil War concerning its army?
many of the freed African Americans joined the
Southern Army
many freed African Americans joined the Union
Army X
Many of the freed African Americans left the
Union Army
Many of the freed African Americans moved to
Canada
17. How did the Emancipation Proclamation help
the North in the Civil War with Britain and
France?
France and Britain withdrew their support from
the North
France and Britain withdrew their support of the
South X
Britain and France urged Canada to attack the
North
Britain and France attacked the South
18. What is one reason for the Union's victory in
the Civil War?
They were able to get other countries to attack the
South.
They had an effective blockade of Southern ports.
X
They had better generals.
They were fighting on Northern soil
19. What was another reason for the Union's
victory in the Civil War?
The Southern General Lee was ineffective and a
coward.
The effective General Grant took control of the
Union Army. X
The Union General Grant gave money to Lee
to end the war.
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England provided soldiers to fight for the North.
20. What was the third reason for the Union's
victory in the Civil War?
The South was able to pay buy the Northern
railroads.
South was able to almost stop the Northern
railroads.
North was able to almost stop the Southern
railroads. X
The South decided to build new railroads.
21. What was the significance of the Battle of
Gettysburg?
The South fired General Lee after the loss of
Gettysburg
Convinced the South that General Lee was a
coward
Stopped the South from anymore attacks on the
North X
convinced the South that they could win a
Northern battle
22. How did President Johnson's plans for
Reconstruction compare to President's Lincoln's?
Both wanted to sell the South to Mexico
Both wanted the South to pay for the war
Both wanted to punish the South and not take the
South back
Both didn't want to punish the South : wanted the
South back D
23. How was sharecropping practiced in the South
after the Civil War?
Former slaves worked the land for huge share of
the profits
Former slaves worked the land for no profits
Former slaves worked the land for a small share
of the crops X
Former slaves not allowed to work the land
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