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Question 1

1. What name was given to a person who opposed slavery?

A. Temperance

B. Suffragette

C. Constructionist

D. Abolitionist

Question 2

2. What was a goal of the Freedman’s Bureau?

A. To compensate former slaveowners for their recently freed slaves

B. To help former slaves succeed in post-Civil War America

C. To free slaves still held in the South

D. To allow for the ending of slavery in the North

Question 3

3. Which of the following statements best describes President Johnson’s managing of the Reconstruction?

A. He was more lenient towards former Confederates than the Radical Republicans wanted.

B. He refused to engage in the Reconstruction.

C. He was more harsh towards former Confederates than the Radical Republicans wanted.

D. He was more lenient towards former Confederates than the Southern Democrats wanted.

Question 4

4. What writing brought attention to slave life in the South during the mid-1800s?

A. The Plight of the Slave

B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

C. The Jungle

D. Of Mice and Men

Question 5

5. What name was given to pro-peace Northerners during the Civil War?

A. Peaceniks

B. Copperheads

C. Rattlers

D. Wobblies

Question 6

6. What new political party formed as a result of the fight over slavery in the mid-1800s?

A. Republican

B. Green

C. Democratic

D. Whig

Question 7

7. What was one of President Lincoln’s major frustrations early in the Civil War?

A. Too many railroads to defend effectively

B. Lack of aggressive military leadership

C. Overly aggressive military leaders

D. Lack of manpower

Question 8

8. What country did Texas break away from to become independent?

A. France

B. Spain

C. Mexico

D. The United States

Question 9

9. The result of the Wilmot Proviso would have been to

A. stop slavery in the territory taken in the Mexican-American War.

B. return New Mexico to Mexico.

C. make California into a slave state.

D. stop the distribution of war pay to soldiers from the Mexican-American War.

Question 10

10. A goal of the Border Ruffians during the time of “Bleeding Kansas” was to vote illegally for a/an

A. anti-slavery government in Kansas.

B. pro-slavery government in Missouri.

C. pro-slavery government in Kansas.

D. anti-slavery government in Missouri.

Question 11

11. What did the Thirteenth Amendment accomplish?

A. The expansion of slavery

B. The abolition of slavery

C. The popular sovereignty of slavery

D. The suffrage of slaves

Question 12

12. The Compromise of 1850 centered around what issue?

A. Tariffs

B. Taxes

C. Immigration

D. Slavery

Question 13

13. What was President Polk’s attitude towards the idea of Manifest Destiny?

A. He was against territorial expansion.

B. He was a supporter of American territorial expansion.

C. He was in favor of expansion but through peaceful means only.

D. He was against using money to buy territory.

Question 14

14. What name was given to the rebuilding of the nation after the American Civil War?

A. The Anaconda Plan

B. The Reconstruction

C. The Marshall Plan

D. The Lincoln Plan

Question 15

15. What name was given to Southern laws that listed the ways slaves were to be treated?

A. Emancipation Proclamation

B. Wilmont’s Proviso

C. Slave Codes

D. Labor Laws

Question 16

16. Why were the border states important to the North during the Civil War?

A. They accounted for most of the farm produce of the North,

B. They were slave states that could have joined the Confederacy.

C. They threatened to form their own country.

D. They had no slave population.

Question 17

17. What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

A. Taxation

B. Slavery

C. Immigration

D. Trade

Question 18

18. What former slave brought attention to the issue of slavery through writings and speeches?

A. Harriet Tubman

B. Frederick Douglass

C. Stephen Douglas

D. William Garrison

Question 19

19. What was the goal of supporters of Manifest Destiny?

A. To have the United States control territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans

B. To limit the number of immigrants coming into the United States

C. To abolish slavery in the United States

D. To have the United States conquer Canada

Question 20

20. Why did many Southerners dislike Carpetbaggers?

A. They took advantage of the political and economic chaos in the South after the Civil War.

B. They won most of the high political offices in the North after the Civil War.

C. They went around the South freeing the slaves after the Civil War.

D. They worked with new arrivals from the North and betrayed their fellow Southerners.