Download EOC Practice Quiz -- The Civil War and Reconstruction (4.1-5)

The Civil War and Reconstruction: Practice Quiz
Compare the social and cultural characteristics of the North, the South, and the West during the antebellum period,
including the lives of African Americans and social reform movements such as abolition and women’s rights.
1)
Two of the ten commandments deal death to slavery. "THOU SHALT NOT STEAL," or, "Thou shalt
not take from another what belongs to him." All a man's powers are God's gift to HIM. Each is a
part of himself. All else that belongs to man is acquired by the use of these powers [God-granted
rights]. The interest belongs to him, because the principal does; the product is his, because he is
the producer. Ownership of anything is ownership of its use. The right to use according to will is
itself ownership.
The eighth commandment presupposes the right of every man to his powers [bodily and mental
abilities], and their product. Slavery robs of both.
Rev. Theodore D. Weld, 1837.
Which movement is Reverend Weld writing in support of?
A) the Revivalist Movement
B) the Abolitionist Movement
C) the Colonization Movement
D) the New American Movement
2) The poor, the middle class, and the elite are three main categories of the rigid social classes of
the southern United States in the Antebellum period. What was the MOST LIKELY difference between
the elite and the poor?
A) land ownership
B) place of birth
C) state of residence
D) religious background
3) Which religious group is credited with being the first American abolitionist group?
A) The Quakers
B) The Baptists
C) The Methodists
D) The Presbyterians
4)
In judging of the welfare of the slaves, it is necessary to distinguish the different conditions of
slavery. The most important distinction, both as regards numbers and its influence on the wellbeing of the slave, is that between houseservants and farm or fieldhands. The houseservant is
comparatively well off. He is frequently born and bred in the family he belongs to. The position of
the fieldhands is very different; of those, especially, who labour on large plantations. Here there
are none of those humanizing influences at work which temper the rigour of the system, nor is
there the same check of public opinion to control abuse. The 'force' is worked as a great human
mechanism; as a drove of human cattle.
--James Stirling, 1857
What is the MAIN idea of the author's description of life on a southern plantation?
A) It was better to be a fieldhand than a houseservant.
B) It was better to be a houseservant than a fieldhand.
C) All overseers punished slaves harshly when they were uncooperative.
D) Slavery in the south depended on large cotton plantations and the use of the cotton gin.
5) What was the main argument that Southerners made in defense of slavery?
A) If the founding fathers had slaves, it should be OK for people who lived in the 1850s to have
slaves.
B) It was up to the states to deal with the use of slavery because it was provided for in the
Constitution.
C) The future of American economic development depended upon the continued existence of the
Southern system of slavery.
D) The workers in the Northern cities were de facto slaves, so it should be okay for slaves to work
on plantations in the South.
Explain how the political events and issues that divided the nation led to civil war, including the compromises reached to
maintain the balance of free and slave states, the successes and failures of the abolitionist movement, the conflicting
views on states’ rights and federal authority, the emergence of the Republican Party and its win in 1860, and the
formation of the Confederate States of America.
6) Who was the most vocal opponent of the Tariff of 1828 and advocated "State's Rights" and
"Nullification" in the growing sectional conflicts between North and South?
A) Henry Clay of Kentucky
B) Andrew Jackson of Tennessee
C) Daniel Webster of Massachusetts
D) John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
7)
In 1860, the area in red would have been LEAST likely to
A) use forced labor in its agricultural production.
B) vote for Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States.
C) push for expansion of slavery in western states and territories.
D) support the notion of "popular sovereignty" in the debate over slavery.
8) How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?
A) It required all future states to choose if they were to be free or slave.
B) It made the Mississippi River the divding line between slave states and free states.
C) It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.
D) It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.
9) The Dred Scott decision
A) supported emancipation of slaves.
B) supported the Missouri Compromise.
C) reduced the tension between the north and the south.
D) encouraged slaveholder's resistance to abolitionist activists.
10)
Which issue would BEST explain the voting trend represented in this election map from 1860?
A) The Republicans promised increased industrial opportunities.
B) The Constitutional Union party stood for universal suffrage.
C) The northern states favored a stance of American neutrality in foreign conflicts.
D) The southern states refused to support Lincoln's stance against slavery's expansion.
Outline the course and outcome of the Civil War, including the role of African American military units; the impact of the
Emancipation Proclamation; and the geographic, political, and economic factors involved in the defeat of the
Confederacy.
11) The Confederate states' most important advantage entering the Civil War is generally
considered to be that
A) they had more farmland than the North and could use their crops to trade for weapons and
supplies.
B) the South was much more industrial than the North and therefore produced more weapons.
C) they only had to fight a defensive war and outlast the Union's will to fight in order to win.
D) their soldiers knew how to ride horses and use firearms better than any northerners did.
12) Which statement offers the BEST explanation for why General Sherman was more destructive
on his march through South Carolina than he was in North Carolina?
A) The Union was seeking revenge for the Battle of Fort Sumter.
B) General Sherman failed to supervise his troops adequately while in South Carolina.
C) South Carolina was viewed as a prime target because they were the first state to secede from
the Union.
D) General Sherman was seeking revenge for Union soldiers killed in South Carolina's prisoner of
war camps.
13) Which of these was the BIGGEST economic disadvantage of the Southern States during the Civil
War?
A) sea port availability
B) industrial production
C) agricultural production
D) availability of resources
14)
Columbia
March 2nd 1865
Gov Magrath
It is with great grief that I communicate our terrible calamity. The vandals destroyed near all the
homes and nearly all the provisions. They left us five hundred head of cattle, and they are dying
daily on our hands, what wheat that was left in one mill that was not burnt, we are grinding and
dividing amongst our people. We are now feeding seven thousand people by daily rations that
have nothing themselves.
--With great respect
T.I. Goodwyn Mayor
(From: South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
According to Mayor Goodwin's letter to Governor Magrath, what is the MOST pressing concern for
the citizens of Columbia following General Sherman's march through the city?
A) slave uprisings and revolts
B) the dwindling supply of food
C) Union cavalry attacks and scavengers
D) finding medical attention for the wounded
15) During the American Civil War, the Confederacy hoped to receive assistance from France and
Great Britain. Which of these was a reason the South expected foreign assistance?
A) President Lincoln had angered these nations with his Emancipation Proclamation.
B) The Union Navy had repeatedly attacked British and French ships sailing in international waters.
C) The French and British upper classes supported the South's use of slave labor on the
plantations.
D) Britain and France depended on the South for four-fifths of their cotton for their textile
industries
Summarize the effects of Reconstruction on the southern states and the roles of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and
Fifteenth Amendments in that era.
16) According the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, citizens of the United States are
BOTH
A) people who are born here and people who move here.
B) people who are born here and people who are naturalized here.
C) people who are born here and people who obtain a driver's license here.
D) people who are born here and people who have a friend or family member living here.
17) The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were all important additions to the
Constitution because they
A) repealed previous amendments.
B) granted more freedom to women.
C) addressed issues that contributed to the Civil War.
D) were passed over the objection of the majority of the population.
18) Following the Civil War, the Radical Republicans in Congress
A) allowed the South to pass the Black Codes.
B) pardoned southern leaders for Civil War actions.
C) hoped to reunite the country as quickly as possible.
D) regarded the southern states as conquered territory.
19) The 14th Amendment of the Constitution accomplishes all of the following EXCEPT
A) allowing for fair and speedy trials.
B) defining citizenship in the United States.
C) defining the rules of representation in the House of Representatives.
D) extending the ‘equal protection clause’ of the Constitution to the states.
20) The Amendment which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude was the
A) 13th Amendment.
B) 14th Amendment.
C) 15th Amendment.
D) 16th Amendment.
Summarize the progress made by African Americans during Reconstruction and the subsequent reversals brought by
Reconstruction’s end, including the creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau, gains in educational and political opportunity,
and the rise of anti–African American factions and legislation.
21)
"(They) must make annual contracts for their labor in writing; if they should run away from their
tasks, they forfeited their wages for the year. Whenever it was required of them they must present
licenses (in a town from the mayor; elsewhere from a member of the board of police of the beat)
citing their places of residence and authorizing them to work."
This passage from 1865 is part of a series of rules immediately after the Civil War that were known
as
A) Black Codes.
B) Jim Crow laws.
C) the South Carolina constitution.
D) the Charter of the Ku Klux Klan.
22)
Which area on the map represents the region where sharecropping was the dominant form of
agricultural production in the late-1800s?
A)
B)
C)
D)
23)
Articles of Agreement between A. Van der Horst – and... Freedmen & women who agree to hire
ourselves as Laborers... from Jan 10th 1867 to Jan 10th 1868.
We link ourselves to perform any kind of labour he or his agent may direct for which we agree to
receive $100 for the twelve months 4 of which to be paid at the end of each month. To be
provisioned with 3 lbs. of Bacon, 1 peck of corn or meal, & 1/2 pint of Salt. Also six yards of
woolens to make a suit of clothes.
...
Women to receive $60 for the twelve months. $2.50 to be paid at the end of each month.
Any hand which does not suit may be on being paid in full for the time he has laboured be
dismissed from this place.
Which statement BEST summarizes the effect of this Reconstruction Era labor agreement?
A) Pay was equally distributed regardless of gender.
B) Black farmers could legally be kept in an inferior role.
C) Industry made farming a low paid and obsolete occupation.
D) The Federal government repaid formers slaves for their bondage.
24) By the end of the Reconstruction era, most African-Americans in the United States
A) found themselves owners of the land their ancestors had worked on as slaves.
B) began to migrate in massive numbers to the rural South to pursue farming jobs.
C) had made tremendous economic and social gains in the South as a result of constitutional
amendments.
D) found themselves increasingly left out of the political process because of poll taxes and literacy
tests.
25) What term describes a white southerner who supported northern Reconstruction policies after
the Civil War?
A) carpetbagger
B) radical
C) scalawag
D) unionist