Civil War Era Practice Quiz 1 In the late 1800s, southern state governments used 4 Base your answer to question on the statement below literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses to and on your knowledge of social studies. (1) ensure that only educated individuals voted ... The whole military force of the State is at the (2) require African Americans to attend school service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia, (3) prevent African Americans from voting to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his (4) integrate public facilities property; but not a soldier is offered to save a citizen 2 One idea that both Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. of Massachusetts from being kidnapped! Is this Du Bois supported is that what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past [since the (1) African Americans should have increased civil beginning of the American Revolution]? Have they rights been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back (2) vocational training was the best approach to fugitive slaves to their masters?... education –Henry David Thoreau, Independence Day speech at (3) immigration was responsible for racial segregation (4) Jim Crow laws were needed to help African Framingham, Massachusetts Americans 3 Which is a primary source of information about the nature of slavery in the United States? The author of this statement is expressing (1) a television program showing life on a Southern dissatisfaction with a provision included in the plantation (1) Treaty of Ghent (1815) (2) a copy of the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (2) Oregon Treaty of 1846 (3) the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (3) Compromise of 1850 (4) a history of slavery written by a 20th-century (4) Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) historian Civil War Era Practice Quiz Base your answers to questions 5 through 7 on this 8 After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th discussion and on your knowledge of social studies. amendments, why did African Americans continue to experience political and economic oppression? Speaker A: Some slaves were freed after the (1) the amendments were not intended to solve their Emancipation Proclamation; others were freed by an problems amendment to the Constitution. We all know that free men may vote, and we do not need further (2) many African Americans distrusted the Federal amendments to tell us that. Government (3) Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws Speaker B: If we pass these amendments, we still do (4) poor communications kept people from learning not ensure the rights of the freed people. In states about their legal rights where white people traditionally have run the 9 Which statement about the results of the Civil War is government, freed people will find it difficult to most accurate? exercise their rights. (1) Federal supremacy was strengthened. Speaker C: As a member of the Republican Party, I (2) Constitutional government was proven ineffective. want to see these amendments adopted to ensure the (3) Universal suffrage was generally accepted. voting strength of our party in the South. (4) Sectional disputes ceased to exist. 10 After the Civil War, the poll tax, literacy test, and Speaker D: These amendments must be passed. The grandfather clause were used to ensure that passage of these amendments will guarantee equal rights with no further governmental action required. (1) all citizens exercised the right to vote 5 The constitutional amendments under discussion are the (2) poor people were given equal voting rights (3) the voting rights of most former slaves were (1) first and second denied (2) fifth and tenth (4) the elderly in the South could vote in Federal (3) fourteenth and fifteenth elections (4) twenty-first and twenty-second 11 Which situation was an immediate result of the United 6 Which speaker describes most clearly the political States Civil War? situation that actually occurred after Reconstruction? (1) Women gained the right to vote as an (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D acknowledgement of their role in the conflict. 7 Speaker C assumed that the Republican Party could (2) Secession was no longer regarded as an option count on the votes of the to be exercised by States. (3) Sectionalism disappeared as a force in American (1) former slaves economic and political life. (2) Western farmers (4) The South retained its pre-Civil War economic (3) urban factory workers and social structure. (4) former Confederate soldiers 12 Which person’s action was most closely associated with the abolitionist movement? (1) William Lloyd Garrison’s publication of The Liberator (2) Booker T. Washington’s commitment to African American education (3) Thurgood Marshall’s legal argument in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (4) Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the Birmingham march Civil War Era Practice Quiz 13 What have abolitionists, conservationists, and civil 17 Base your answer to the following question on the rights advocates generally promoted? quotation below and on your knowledge of social studies. (1) the government ownership of business and . The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus economic equality for all citizens shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of (2) the increased participation of the Federal Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require Government in solving social problems it. (3) the withdrawal of United States troops from ¾ Article I, Section 9, Clause 2, United States foreign nations Constitution (4) the use of violence to achieve social justice During which war was the Writ of Habeas Corpus 14 One way in which the Kentucky and Virginia suspended by the president? Resolutions (1798) and the South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832) are similar is that each (1) Revolutionary War (2) War of 1812 (3) Mexican War (4) Civil War (1) claimed that individual states have the right to interpret federal laws 18 What was the major reason the Radical Republicans opposed President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction (2) formed part of the unwritten constitution plan? (3) supported the federal government's power to declare war (1) The plan demanded payments from the South that (4) provided a way for new states to enter the Union would have damaged its economy. (2) The plan postponed the readmission of Southern 15 Which statement most accurately describes President States into the Union for many years Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War? (3) The plan granted too many rights to formerly enslaved persons (1) Southerners should be made to pay for their (4) The plan offered amnesty to nearly all rebellion. Confederates who would swear allegiance to (2) The Union should be restored as quickly as the United States. possible. (3) African Americans should be given free land. (4) War damages should be collected through military occupation. 16 Which statement best describes the economic differences between the North and South just prior to the Civil War? (1) The Northern economy was primarily agricultural, while the Southern economy was based on manufacturing. (2) Jobs on plantations attracted more European immigrants to the South than to the North. (3) Transportation systems were more developed in the North than in the South. (4) The Southern economy was more diversified than the Northern economy. Civil War Era Practice Quiz 19 Base your answer to question on the graphic organizer 23 Jim Crow laws passed in the South during the late below and on your knowledge of social studies. 1800s were designed to (1) support civil rights for African Americans (2) create a system of legal segregation (3) give free land to formerly enslaved persons (4) compensate landowners for damage done during the Civil War 24 "Jackson Replaces Many Government Workers With His Supporters" "Jackson Vetoes Bank Recharter Bill for Political Reasons" "Jackson Refuses to Enforce Worcester v. Georgia Decision" Which conclusion about President Andrew Jackson is most consistent with these headlines? Which title best completes this graphic organizer? (1) He allowed Congress to decide controversial issues. (1) Equal Protection Under the Law (2) He expanded presidential powers. (2) Freedom of Assembly (3) He demonstrated weakness in dealing with (3) States Rights domestic issues. (4) Protection of Religious Practice (4) He relied on the Supreme Court to settle disputes. 20 Most Southern political leaders praised the Supreme 25 Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were enacted in Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Southern states as a means to because it (1) provide an education for formerly enslaved (1) granted citizenship to all enslaved persons persons (2) upheld the principle of popular sovereignty (2) protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved (3) supported the right of a state to secede from the persons Union (3) enforce racial segregation (4) protected the property rights of slave owners (4) ensure equal protection under the law in the territories 26 Black Codes were established in the South 21 The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the immediately after the Civil War in an effort to United States by the (1) integrate freedmen into American society (1) Compromise of 1850 (2) enforce the Emancipation Proclamation (2) Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 (3) expand educational opportunities (3) creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865 (4) limit the rights of newly freed African (4) ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865 Americans 22 “Since the Southern states never legally left the Union, they should be restored to the Union as soon as possible.” The position expressed in this statement is most closely associated with the beliefs of (1) Robert E. Lee (2) Thaddeus Stevens (3) Jefferson Davis (4) Abraham Lincoln Civil War Era Practice Quiz 27 Which situation was the most immediate result of 31 In their plans for Reconstruction, what did both Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency in 1860? President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson seek to carry out? (1) Kansas and Nebraska joined the Union as free states.