Unit 02--Civil War Test

This assignment is worth 10 points. You are to complete each of the items below by printing this assignment out and writing your answers on the pages.

Test will come from Chapter 6

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Multiple Choice questions will come from the following.

1. What was sharecropping?

2. Why were poll taxes implemented by state governments following the Civil War?

3. What was the majority opinion of the Dred Scott Supreme Court case?

4. How did the Underground Railroad help enslaved persons?

5. What kind of orders does Grant give to Sherman and Sheridan after he assumes his position as commander of all Union troops?

6. What kind of problem faced African Americans living in Northern states during Reconstruction?

7. What were the goals of the Freedman’s Bureau?

8. What were the topics of the debates that led to sectionalism in America?

9. Which of the following accurately describes African Americans’ role in the Civil War?

10. Why did Dread Scott and Harriet Scott believe the Supreme Court would set them free?

11. Why was the Northern economy in the mid 1800s not reliant on slave labor?

12. What did the Missouri Compromise state?

13. Why did Northerners oppose the admission of TX to the Union?

14. Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act end hopes for sectional peace?

15. List the advantages of both the North and the South during the Civil War?

16. What did the people of Tennessee realize after the Battle of Shiloh?

17. What was President Lincoln’s major goal in signing the Emancipation Proclamation?

18. What contributions did women make during the Civil War?

19. Why did Lincoln call home many Union soldiers by the fall of 1864?

20. What did the Supreme Court rule about the Reconstruction Act?

21. List the aims of the legislation (laws) passed by the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction?

22. What did white supremacist organizations begin to do following the Civil War?

23. How do Republicans attempt to regain their power in the South after Grant’s presidency?

24. What do the Republicans do in order to get enough electoral votes to make Hayes win the Presidency?

25. Who was John C. Calhoun and what was his major contribution toward this time period?

26. Who was Sojourner Truth and what was her major contribution during this time period?

27. Who was Julia Ward Howe and what was her major contribution during this time period?

28. Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe and what was her major contribution during this time period?

29. Who was William Lloyd Garrison and what was his major contribution during this time period?

30. Who was Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and what was his major contribution during this time period?

31. Who was Thaddeus Stevens and what was his major contribution during this time period?

32. Who was John T. Crittenden and what was his major contribution during this time period?

33. There will be 8 questions asking about the location of major cities of the East and of the States.

Matching The items below represent the items that will be on the matching section of the test.

invention of cotton gin

Fifteenth Amendment

Harpers Ferry revolt

Compromise of 1850

Emancipation Proclamation

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Missouri Compromise

Fourteenth Amendment

Open Ended

One question will be about Abraham Lincoln and the election of 1860. (For purposes of this assignment write down everything you know about it)

One question will be related to Reconstruction and its impact on America.