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Civil War and Reconstruction

Quiz by Christina Bynum

Grade 5
Social Studies K-HS (Archived)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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  • Q1
    a person who works to end or get rid of something especially slavery
    abolitionists

    disenfranchise

    secede

    assassinate

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q2
    a change or improvement

    progress

    industry

    secede

    amendment
    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q3
    to murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons

    astronaut

    assassinate

    argument

    impeach

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q4
    a group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African American men the right to vote, own guns, or take certain jobs

    plantation

    amendments

    black codes

    blockades

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q5
    a barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area

    border

    blockade

    impeach

    assassinate

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q6
    Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money

    freedman

    backpacks

    carpetbaggers

    scalawag

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q7
    together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation
    Confederacy

    Republic of the South

    Union

    New South

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q8
    the freeing of a group from slavery

    black codes

    proclamation

    abolition

    emancipation
    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q9
    to join the military

    siege

    volunteer

    annex

    enlist
    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q10
    the process of charging a high public official, such as the President, with a crime

    amendment

    impeachment

    assassinate

    arrest

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q11
    the celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans were freed during the Civil War

    Julyteenth

    Independence Day

    Freedman's Day

    Juneteenth
    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q12
    a large farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one kind of crop

    blockade

    plantation

    sharecropping

    proclamation

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q13
    an official announcement

    secession

    plantation

    blockade

    proclamation
    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q14
    the period when laws were passed that sought to rebuild and heal the northern and southern regions of the United States after the Civil War

    Western War

    Civil War

    Revolution

    Reconstruction
    30s
    113.16.b.4.E
  • Q15
    the separation of a state from a nation

    proclamation

    segregation

    secession

    annex

    30s
    113.16.b.4.E

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