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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the North in the Civil War?
Railroads
Industrialization
Well Trained Army
Population
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the south:
Commitment to the Cause
Population
Defensive War
Better Trained Army
- 3. Multiple Choice
General Sherman defeated the south using this tactic:
Total War
Guerilla Warfare
The Anaconda Plan
Emancipation of Slaves
- 4. Multiple Choice
What were the major causes of the Civil War? (List all that apply)
Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws
Slavery
Westward Expansion
Lincoln winning the election of 1860
All of these
- 5. Multiple Choice
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually freed?
Only the slaves in the Confederacy, so none of them
Only slaves in Western Territories
Only slaves in the border states
All of the slaves in the North and South
- 6. Multiple Choice
As a result of ______, Lincoln rebrands the cause away from preserving the union to ending slavery; a turning point in the Civil War.
The Battle of Fort Sumter
Sherman's March to the Sea
The Battle of Antietam
Gettysburg Address
- 7. Multiple Choice
What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.
The 14th Amendment
The 16th Amendment
The 13th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
- 8. Multiple Choice
What compromise settled the intensely debated Election of 1876: Hayes vs Tilden and formally ended Reconstruction in the south with Hayes becoming president?
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1877
Compromise of 1820
- 9. Multiple Choice
What practice was established in America by the landmark Supreme Court Case Plessy Versus Ferguson.
Separate but Equal segregation
Freedom of the Press
Slaves were property and not citizens
Separation of Church and State
- 10. Multiple Choice
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming is:
A policy that gave Freed Slaves who helped the North during the war 40 acres and a mule
A system of farming that left freed slaves and poor whites in debt to wealthy land owners and tied to the land
Allowing Freed Slaves the ability to work land without having to buy it or pay for their supplies to help them get ahead after Slavery ended
A system from the Freedmen's Bureau to allow economically disadvantaged people in the south the opportunity to own land
- 11. Multiple Choice
What laws sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after slavery ended and they become the basis of Jim Crow Laws?
Separate but Equal Doctrine
Sharecropping
The Grandfather laws
Black Codes
- 12. Multiple Choice
Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The 16th Amendment
- 13. Multiple Choice
The major anti federalist concern about the constitution was ________.
The system of checks and balances
Overprotection of individual rights
The lack of a Bill of Rights
The Constitution would have a weaker central government
- 14. Multiple Choice
The Supremacy Clause is:
The constitutional clause stating that states have powers that are not explicitly granted to the national government.
The constitutional clause that allows Congress to share certain powers with the state governments.
The constitutional clause that enforces the division of power between the state and federal governments.
The constitutional clause affirming that the Constitutional and federal laws are the supreme laws of the land.
- 15. Multiple Choice
The constitutional clause known as the Elastic Clause gives Congress the authority to ________.
“make all laws necessary and proper” to carry out its powers.
“declare war” with consent of the president and Supreme Court.
“override a president’s veto” with a two-thirds majority vote.
“coin and distribute money” as needed to improve the economy.
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