Civil War and Reconstruction Practice Test PDF

## Civil War and Reconstruction Practice Test ### Matching - **A. 13th Amendment** - **B. 14th Amendment** - **C. 15th Amendment** - **D. Black Codes** - **E. Jim Crow Laws** 1. Law passed by the North as a reaction to the black codes. It was passed to make sure the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would...

## Civil War and Reconstruction Practice Test ### Matching - **A. 13th Amendment** - **B. 14th Amendment** - **C. 15th Amendment** - **D. Black Codes** - **E. Jim Crow Laws** 1. Law passed by the North as a reaction to the black codes. It was passed to make sure the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would never expire. **B** 2. Legislation passed by Southern states at the end of the Civil War from 1865 to 1867 to control the labor, migration, and other activities of freedmen. **D** 3. Law passed after US Grant narrowly won the 1868 Presidential to ensure that Republicans continued to win elections. **C** 4. State and local laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 after the Union Army left the South that mandated the legal separation of the races in public facilities. Some examples included the segregation of schools, transportation, restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains. **E** 5. Law passed that expanded the Emancipation Proclamation to all parts of the nation. **A** - **A. Carpetbagger** - **B. redemption** - **C. black codes** - **D. Radical Republicans** - **E. Scalawag** 6. This group strongly supported a Reconstruction that aimed for black equality. **D** 7. A white Southerner that voted Republican during Reconstruction **E** 8. This legislation tried to basically re-enslave African Americans in the South after the Civil War. It made acts such as not working or being out past curfew a crime. **C** 9. Democrats used this term to describe their return to power in the South. **B** 10. A Northerner who moved South after the Civil War for personal economic gain. **A** 11. When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal? - **C. to restore the Union** 12. Most likely, how many slaves were released on January 1, 1863 when the Emancipation Proclamation took effect? - **C. 3,119,397** 13. Which of the following abolished slavery in the North? - **B. the Thirteenth Amendment** 14. What massive frontal assault saw 15,000 Confederate soldiers attack the Union center with only a couple of hundred reaching the Union lines on day 3 at Gettysburg. This was the high water mark of the Confederacy. - **B. Pickett's Charge ** 15. What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War? - **A. It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent.**