US History EOC Review

Civil War and Reconstruction

Which statement is best supports the table data?

a) the Confederate troops lost the Civil War as a result of their higher numbers of injuries and fatalities

b) the Union army had better generals during the Civil War

c) the Civil War had more casualties than any other war

d) more soldiers died from disease than wounds

2) One way that “Bleeding Kansas,” the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events

a) ended conflict over slavery in the territories

b) eased tensions between the North and the South

c) contributed to the formation of the Whig party

d) made sectional compromise more difficult

3) The Civil War affected the northern economy by

a) causing a severe depressionb) increasing unemployment ratesc) decreasing demand for agricultural

productsd) stimulating industrialization

4) As the Civil War began, President Lincoln stated that his primary goal was to

a) end slaveryb) set new national boundariesc) increase congressional powersd) preserve the Union

5) The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas- Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

a) end fighting between Midwestern farmers and Native American Indians

b) encourage manufacturing in the West c) increase the number of people who

voted in presidential electionsd) settle disputes over the spread of slavery

to the western territories

6) Many Southern states tried to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction by

a) adopting federal laws mandating segregation b) enacting Jim Crow lawsc) abolishing the Southern sharecropping systemd) securing passage of new amendments

to the US Constitution

7) Which term refers to the idea that settlers had the right to decide whether slavery would be legal in their territory?

a) nullificationb) sectionalismc) popular sovereigntyd) southern secession

8) In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?

a) they feared being drafted into the Northern army

b) the Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the US

c) more factory jobs were available in Canada

d) Northern abolitionists refused to help fugitive slaves

9) What was a common purpose of the three amendments added to the United States Constitution between 1865 and 1870?

a) extending suffrage to Southern women

b) reforming the sharecropping systemc) granting rights to African Americansd) protecting rights of Southerners

accused of treason

10) The Radical Republicans in Congress opposed President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction because Lincoln

a) called for the imprisonment of most Confederate leaders

b) rejected the idea of harsh punishments for the South

c) planned to keep Northern troops in the South after the war

d) demanded immediate civil and political rights for formerly enslaved persons

11) Which action marked the end of Reconstruction in the United States?

a) ratification of the 14th amendmentb) 1877 compromise to withdrawal of

federal troops from the Southc) creation of the Freedmen’s Bureaud) impeachment of President Andrew

Johnson

12) Constitutional amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to

a) provide legal and political rights for African Americans

b) end property and religious qualifications for voting

c) correct problems with the electoral college system

d) limit the number of terms of the president

13) In the ten years following the Civil War,

a large number of former slaves earned a living by becoming

a) conductors on the Underground Railroad

b) workers in Northern factoriesc) sharecroppers on Southern farmsd) gold miners in California

14) Which situation was the most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln’s election of the presidency in 1860?

a) Kansas and Nebraska joined the Union as free states

b) a constitutional amendment was adopted to end slavery

c) Missouri entered the Union as a slave state

d) several southern states seceded from the Union

15) What was the primary goal of President Lincoln’s post-Civil policy?

a) establishing military districts in the South

b) extending land ownership to African American men

c) restoring Southern representation in Congress

d) arresting military leaders of the Confederacy

16) The data shown in the graphs best support the conclusion that the North

a) was better prepared economically to fight the Civil War

b) lagged behind the South in bank depositsc) produced more agricultural products than the

Southd) lacked several important resources to fight the war

17) Which statement most accurately describes President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War?

a) war damages should be collected through military occupation

b) the Union should be restored as quickly as possible and lenient

c) Southerners should be made to pay for their rebellion

d) African Americans should be given free land

18) What is the main idea of this cartoon from the Reconstruction era?

a) Southern oppressed by carpet bagger Radical Republican policies

b) military force was necessary to stop Southern secession

c) United States soldiers forced women in the South to work in factories

d) sharecropping was an economic burden for women after the Civil War

19) Which event led directly to the secession of several Southern states from the Union?

a) violence in Kansas over the spread of slavery

b) election of Abraham Lincoln as presidentc) publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabind) raid by John Brown at Harpers Ferry

20) Leading up to the Civil War, the South had an economy based on agriculture and slave labor while the North had an economy based on

a) agriculture and corporationsb) plantations and indentured laborc) industry and wage labord) much more trade with other nations

21) The Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) helped to increase sectional conflict because the decision

a) denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories

b) allowed for the importation of enslaved persons for ten years

c) prohibited slavery in lands west of the Mississippi River

d) gave full citizenship to all enslaved persons

22) The Reconstruction plans of President Lincoln and President Johnson included a provision for the

a) resumption of full participation in Congress by southern states

b) long-term military occupation of the Confederacy

c) payment of war reparations by Southern states

d) harsh punishment of former Confederate officials

23) The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to

a) prevent them from votingb) limit their access to public facilitiesc) block their educational opportunitiesd) deny them economic advancements

24) Following Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of

a) the 14th and 15th amendmentsb) the Freedmen’s Bureauc) Black Codesd) tenant farming and sharecropping

25) Literacy tests and poll taxes were often used to

a) enforce constitutional amendments added after the Civil War

b) limit voter participation by African Americans

c) promote equal educational opportunities for minority persons

d) provide job training for freedmen

26) During the Reconstruction Era (1865- 1877), the 15th amendment was adopted to grant African Americans

a) educational opportunitiesb) economic equalityc) freedom of speechd) voting rights

27) Abolitionists in the pre-Civil War period were most likely to support the

a) removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia

b) passage of the Fugitive Slave Actc) activities of the Underground Railroadd) use of popular sovereignty in the

territories

28) The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the United States by the

a) Compromise of 1850b) Emancipation Proclamation of 1863c) creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau

in 1865d) ratification of the 13th Amendment

in 1865

29 ) After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution was to

a) grant civil and political rights to Native American Indiansb) allow women to become full citizensc) guarantee African Americans equal

treatment under the lawd) extend constitutional rights to new

territories

30) Which of the following best explains the Emancipation Proclamation?

a) it stated that slavery should be abolished at the end of the Civil War

b) it stated that all slaves in the Union and Confederacy were free

c) it stated that slavery would not be allowed in newly acquired territories

d) it stated that all slaves in the Confederate states should be freed