Unit 9 History Test

Question 1

Secession

Answer 1

The act of withdrawing from a country

Question 2

Carpetbagger

Answer 2

A Northerner who came to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction

Question 3

Black Codes

Answer 3

Local and State laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans

Question 4

Sectionalism

Answer 4

Loyalty to one’s own region of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

Question 5

Radical

Answer 5

Extreme point of view

Question 6

Confederacy

Answer 6

A republic formed in February of 1861, that consisted of the 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States.

Question 7

Fugitive

Answer 7

A person avoiding the law

Question 8

Reconstruction

Answer 8

Time period in which the United States was rebuilt after the Civil War

Question 9

Emancipation

Answer 9

Freed the slaves in the states of rebellion and changed the purpose of the war to include ending slavery along with preserving the Union.

Question 10

Civil

Answer 10

Of the same country

Question 11

Scalawags

Answer 11

A white southerner who worked with Northern Republicans for a profit

Question 12

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 12

This department was set up by the federal government to help educate and transition newly freed slaves.

Question 13

Union

Answer 13

The United States, especially the Northern states, during the Civil War, which remained with the original United States government.

Question 14

Inaugural

Answer 14

Marking the beginning of a period in office.

Question 15

Sharecropping

Answer 15

A farmer who rents land and gives the owner part of his crop.