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Unit Nine Test
Reconstruction
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Multiple Choice (4 points each)
1. The 13th Amendment ___.
A. bans slavery in the United States and
any of its territories
B. allows slaves to vote
C. allows women to vote
D. grants citizenship to all former slaves
2. Which Amendment gave all male
citizens the right to vote regardless of
race?
A.
B.
C.
D.
th
4 Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
5th Amendment
3. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 gave equal
rights to ___.
A.
B.
C.
D.
American Indians
Spanish Americans
French Americans
African Americans
4. Which Amendment granted citizenship
to all persons born in the United States?
A.
B.
C.
D.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
5th Amendment
5. Why was Lincoln unable to carry out
his Reconstruction plan?
A.
B.
C.
D.
He lost the re-election vote.
He was assassinated.
He lost Congress’s support
He was impeached.
6. Who was the President of the United
States at the beginning of Reconstruction?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Martin Van Buren
Abraham Lincoln
7. The Southern economy after the Civil
War was based mainly on ___.
A.
B.
C.
D.
agriculture
industry
banking and finance
information technology
8. Northerners who supported the
Republicans and moved South during
Reconstruction were called ___.
A.
B.
C.
D.
scalawags
carpetbaggers
freedman
fugitives
9. Which organization was created after
the Civil War to help former slaves?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Red Cross
Freedman’s Bureau
Republican Party
Ku Klux Klan
10. After the Civil War, freedmen most
likely became ___.
A.
B.
C.
D.
sailors
plantation owners
industrial workers
sharecroppers
11. Which of the following was a result of
the harsh Reconstruction policies that were
applied to the South?
A. African-Americans could not hold
public office
B. Southerners resented northern
“carpetbaggers”
C. Southern military leaders could hold
office but not vote
D. plantations had to be sold to the
highest bidder
12. Who was impeached by the Radical
Republicans?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
James K. Polk
Andrew Johnson
13. What were white southerners who
swore they had not supported the
Confederacy during the war called?
A.
B.
C.
D.
scalawags
carpetbaggers
freedman
fugitives
14. Laws that set limits on the rights and
opportunities of African Americans were
called ___.
A. Civil Rights Act of 1866
B. Black codes
C. Radical Republicans
D. The 15th Amendment
_________________________________
Civil War_________________________
15. Who was president of the
Confederacy during the Civil War?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Stephan A. Douglas
Jefferson Davis
16. Which of the following was NOT a
factor in the Civil War?
A. the issue of slavery
B. the acquisition of new land
C. the issues of states’ rights vs.
national unity
D. the preservation of a way of life
17. The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in
the war because:
A. the north repelled Lee’s invasion
B. McClellan failed to pursue Lee into
Virginia
C. Ulysses S. Grant appointed general of the
Union Army
D. the Union gained control of the
Mississippi
18. The culture in the North was primarily:
A.
B.
C.
D.
slow
competitive
urban
agricultural
19. Which compromise was NOT attempted
to resolve differences over slavery in new
states joining the Union?
25. The first major battle of the war
was fought at ___.
A.
B.
C.
D.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Missouri Compromise
Proclamation Line of 1763
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
20. As a result of this battle the North got
control of the Mississippi River and divided the South.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Appomattox Courthouse
Manassas
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
21. Who was the Civil War nurse who created the
American Red Cross?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Dolly Madison
Clara Barton
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
22. For which side did the African American soldiers
fight?
A.
B.
C.
D.
North
South
both North and South
not at all
23. Which one was NOT true about life on the battle
field during the Civil War?
A. family and friends fought each other
B. combat was brutal
C. disease was a major killer
D. all had adequate supplies
24. Disagreements over new states being
free or slave states was a cause of the ___.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Spoils System
Civil War
Fugitive Slave Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Manassas
Richmond
Gettysburg
Anita