Civil War/Reconstruction STAAR Questions

Which condition did both slaves and free blacks in the US experience in the antebellum period?

• Both were able to testify in court

• Both were able to testify in court

• Both were forced to pay taxes

• Both were denied citizenship rights

Which statement describes the roles of George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War?

• They were Confederate Generals who captured Ft. Sumter

• They were Union Generals who commanded the Army of the Potomac

• They were Confederate Generals who surrendered at the Battle of Vicksburg

• They were Union Generals who committed war crimes at the Battle of Gettysburg

Which statement BEST describes the importance of the Battle of Vicksburg?

• The Confederacy lost control of the Mississippi River

• It was the opening engagement of the Civil War in the South

• It was describes as the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War

• The confederacy captured military supplies from the North.

Which statement describes BOTH the Free-Soil Party and the Republican Party in the Mid 1800s?

• They supported actions to stop escaped slaves from entering the North

• They supported enacting safety regulations to protect factory workers

• They were against the expansion of slavery into the western territories

• They were against the establishment of Indian reservations

Which of the following expresses a goal of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?

• To restore the Democratic Party power in the South

• To rebuild the plantation economy of the South

• To protect the rights of African Americans in the South

• To encourage former slaves to leave the South

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• new technology for growing food

• expanding the region's dependence on corn production

• by making landowners buy supplies from the government

• keeping renters in debt to landlords

Match the following

• Gives freedom to ALL slaves in the US

• 14th Amendment

• Gives Citizenship to ALL former slaves

• 15th Amendment

• Gives Voting Rights to ALL MEN

• 13th Amendment

What is popular sovereignty

• The right for African Americans to enlist in the army

• Abolished slavery in the United States

• The right to vote for or against slavery

• The right for African Americans to become citizens

Match the following

• A conductor for the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• General who captured two Confederate forts

• Stephen Douglas

• President of the Confederacy

• Jefferson Davis

• A Democratic Senate

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Author of Uncle Tom´s Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Match the following

• Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South

• Freedmen´s Bureau

• Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in exchange for a portion of their crops

• Sharecropping

• Banned states from denying African Americans right to vote

• Fourteenth Amendment

• African American Citizenship

• Reconstruction