US History: Reconstruction True/False Quiz

The Civil War was over in the spring of 1865.

In 1862, with Union forces advancing into the South, President Lincoln had named army generals to serve as temporary military governors.

The Confederates lost the war.

At the end of the Civil War, the southern white elite felt very happy.

The end of the Civil War meant that enslaved workers would be sold.

After the Civil War, freed slaves believed that Blacks would not be separated from their families.

The ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution occurred in December 1865.

The Reconstruction took place from 1865 to 1877.

The Reconstruction era was one of the least significant periods in U.S history.

The economy in the North had been strengthened by the war efforts.

During the Reconstruction period, many Radical Republicans were motivated primarily political ideals.

Many Radical Republicans believed that all people, regardless of race, were equal in God's eyes.

In Congress, the Radical Republicans wanted to replace the white, Democratic planter elite with a new generation of small farmers.

The Freedmen's Bureau provided assistance to the freedmen and their wives and children.

Congressional Reconstruction gave African Americans an opportunity to experience equality.

After the Reconstruction period, Southern state governments quickly renewed long-standing patterns of discrimination against African Americans.

During Eisenhower's first three years, public facilities in Washington, D.C., were desegregated.

During and after the Second World War, the South was not a segregated society.

In the mid-1930s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) challenged the separate-but-equal judicial doctrine.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott launched the Civil Rights Movement.

Explain why the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision was one that added to the tensions among the states.

What are the two terms used to designate the armed conflict in the United States from 1861 to 1865?

Give the two sides that were opposed during the Civil War.

Who was Jefferson Davis during the Civil War?

In one of his speeches, Abraham Lincoln used the phrase 'house divided.' Explain what he meant by that expression.