Civil War/Reconstruction

Question 1

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help freed slaves?

Answer 1

They helped by providing education, food, housing, medical aid, and help to setup schools and universities.

Question 2

How many slaves were freed on January 1, 1863 because the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 2

0

Question 3

When the South surrendered, who was allowed to keep their pistols?

Answer 3

The officers

Question 4

In the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court stated that slaves were what?

Answer 4

property

Question 5

In the election of 1876 who won the popular vote, but lost the election?

Answer 5

Samuel J. Tilden

Question 6

On April 9,1865, which General surrendered at Appomattox Court?

Answer 6

Robert E. Lee

Question 7

On Sherman’s March to the Sea, what city was burned down?

Answer 7

Atlanta

Question 8

What did the Ku Klux Klan use to stop blacks from voting?

Answer 8

Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses.

Question 9

What is unique about President Andrew Johnson?

Answer 9

He was the first President to be impeached.

Question 10

What made up Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

Answer 10

10% Plan

• When 10% of the voting population had taken an oath of loyalty to the union
• The state could establish a government
• Adopt a new state constitution banning slavery.

Question 11

What nickname was given to Kansas over the violent battles about slavery?

Answer 11

Bleeding Kansas

Question 12

What was one thing that all the Reconstruction plans have in common?

Answer 12

abolish slavery

Question 13

What political party was created during this era to fight slavery?

Answer 13

Republican Party

Question 14

What was the name of the Confederacy Plan to win the Civil War?

Answer 14

Cotton of Diplomacy (Defensive War)

Question 15

What was the name of the Union Plan to win the Civil War?

Answer 15

The Anaconda Plan

Question 16

What was the topic of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin?”

Answer 16

the treatment of slaves

Question 17

What were the North’s motives at the beginning of the war?

Answer 17

preserve the union

Question 18

What ways were created to stop blacks from voting in the south?

Answer 18

Poll taxes, Literacy tests, grandfather clause

Question 19

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired at?

Answer 19

Fort Sumter

Question 20

What political group wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?

Answer 20

Radical Republicans

Question 21

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 21

South Carolina

Question 22

Who was asked to lead the Union army but declined?

Answer 22

Robert E. Lee

Question 23

Who won the civil war?

Answer 23

The Union/North

Question 24

Why was John Brown hung?

Answer 24

Lead groups to take over arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Plans to lead slaves in revolt against owners

Question 25

Why was President Johnson impeached?

Answer 25

He violated the Office of Tenure Act. (He fired members of Cabinet without the consent of the Senate).

Question 26

What is inflation?

Answer 26

the price of products rises while the value of money falls.

Question 27

What is the first line of the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 27

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on the continent a new nation…

Question 28

13th Amendment

Answer 28

abolished slavery

Question 29

14th Amendment

Answer 29

gave citizenship rights to those born in the United States.

Question 30

15th Amendment

Answer 30

gives voting rights to all men, including African Americans

Question 31

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 31

segregation (separate but equal)

Question 32

Black Codes

Answer 32

New laws in the south to violate AA’s 14th Amendment rights.

Question 33

sharecroppers

Answer 33

tenant farmers (renters) another form of slavery

Question 34

Scalawags

Answer 34

Southerners who supported the government during secession. (were seen as traitors to the south).

Question 35

Carpetbaggers

Answer 35

Northerners who worked in the South, trying to take advantage and make a profit from Reconstruction.