Question 1

What was a significant result of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

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The end of the Republican Party

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The invention of the automobile

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The establishment of Jim Crow laws

Question 2

Which event is often considered the starting point of the American Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The attack on Fort Sumter

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The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Question 3

What was the primary goal of the Freedmen's Bureau established during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

To assist former enslaved individuals in transitioning to freedom

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To promote the establishment of Southern plantations

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To limit immigration to the United States

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To enforce segregation laws

Question 4

What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857?

Accepted Answer

Africans, whether free or enslaved, could not be American citizens

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All states must allow slavery

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Dred Scott was awarded freedom

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Slavery was illegal in all U.S. territories

Question 5

Which legislation aimed at consolidating the gains of Reconstruction was passed in 1866?

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Homestead Act

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Voting Rights Act

Question 6

What was the primary purpose of the 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870?

Accepted Answer

To grant African American men the right to vote

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To limit the power of the federal government

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To abolish slavery

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To establish income tax

Question 7

What was one major effect of the Compromise of 1877?

Accepted Answer

The end of Reconstruction in the South

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A new tax system in the North

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The expansion of voting rights for women

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The establishment of the Union Pacific Railroad

Question 8

What was a common method used by Southern states to restrict African American voting after Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Literacy tests

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Mandatory voting for all citizens

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Free public transportation to polls

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Prohibition of the electoral college

Question 9

Who was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Hiram Revels

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Frederick Douglass

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Booker T. Washington

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E.B. Du Bois

Question 10

What was the primary purpose of the Black Codes enacted in the South after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

To restrict the rights of African Americans

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To encourage African Americans to migrate North

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To establish trade with Northern states

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To promote education for all citizens

Question 11

What was the primary goal of the Reconstruction era after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

To rebuild the South and integrate freed slaves into society

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To create a monarchy in the United States

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To punish the Southern states for secession

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To establish new territories in the West

Question 12

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

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15th Amendment

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16th Amendment

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14th Amendment

Question 13

What was the primary purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

To assist freed slaves and poor whites in the South

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To restrict immigration to the South

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To serve as a military force in the South

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To promote agricultural exports from the South

Question 14

What was the significance of the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education?

Accepted Answer

It declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional

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It ended the Civil War officially

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It established the legality of 'separate but equal'

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It granted women the right to vote

Question 15

What were Black Codes?

Accepted Answer

Laws designed to restrict the rights of African Americans after the Civil War

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Constitutional amendments granting voting rights

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Federal laws promoting civil rights for all citizens

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Regulations governing trade between states

Question 16

Which event marked the official end of the Reconstruction era?

Accepted Answer

The Compromise of 1877

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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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The start of the Civil War

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The passage of the 14th Amendment

Question 17

What was the main intention behind the Thirteenth Amendment?

Accepted Answer

To abolish slavery in the United States

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To grant women the right to vote

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To provide education for freed slaves

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To establish income tax

Question 18

Which president is commonly associated with the controversial implementation of Reconstruction policies?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Johnson

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Abraham Lincoln

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Herbert Hoover

Question 19

What was the main outcome of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

Accepted Answer

It granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. regardless of race

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It ended the Civil War

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It established public schools in the South

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It allowed women to vote

Question 20

What was the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Accepted Answer

It declared the freedom of all slaves in Confederate-held territory

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It established the first public school system

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It ended the Civil War

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It granted suffrage to women

Question 21

When was the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

1861-1865

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1887-1889

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1776-1812

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1990-1999

Question 22

What happened in the “Caning of Sumner”?

Accepted Answer

Sumner was beaten with a cane on the Senate floor by Representative Preston Brooks

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They threw cans at senators that they did not agree with

Question 23

Who was the General of the South?

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

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Abraham Lincoln

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Jefferson Davis

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Ulysses S. Grant

Question 24

Who was the General of the North?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

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Jefferson Davis

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Abraham Lincoln

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Robert E. Lee

Question 25

What was the North’s strategy in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Anaconda Plan

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Snake Plan

Question 26

What is a carpetbagger?

Accepted Answer

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstructiona person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction

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a person who really like bags of carpet

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A person who put carpets in homes.

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a person from southern states who after the Civil War wen to profit from the North

Question 27

What is a scalawag?

Accepted Answer

a white Southerner who supported the Republican Party and Reconstruction policies after the American Civil Waa white Southerner who supported the Republican Party and Reconstruction policies after the American Civil Wa

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A person who is a scaly

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Nothing, that is a made up word

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A southerner who hunter for birds called scalawags

Question 28

How did the black codes affect African Americans?

Accepted Answer

effectively keeping them tied to a system resembling slaveryeffectively keeping them tied to a system resembling slavery

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a system to give rights to newly freed African Americans after the civil war

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a set of laws to give rights to white families after the civil war

Question 29

How did sharecropping work?

Accepted Answer

a tenant farmer, often a former slave after the Civil War, would work a landowner's land in exchange for a portion of the crop they harvested. It often trapped them in a cycle of debt due to high interest rates on loans for supplies and equipment provided by the landowner

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a tenant farmer, often a former slave after the Civil War, would work a landowner's land in exchange for a portion of the crop they harvested, essentially "sharing" the profits from the harvest, everything was shared evenly

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a white farmer who would rent land from a former slave. They would split all of the profits evenly

Question 30

What does the 14th Amendment say?

Accepted Answer

All people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States

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All persons in the United States are able to vote.

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Women are granted the right to vote

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All states that are part of the United States are now free states.

Question 31

What does the 13th Amendment say?

Accepted Answer

slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited in the United States, with the exception of punishment for a crime

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Women are granted the right to vote

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All states in the United States are part of the Union

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All men are granted to vote within the United States

Question 32

When was Johnson President?

Accepted Answer

1865-1869

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1890-1894

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1812-1817

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1772-1776

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