United States History Quiz

What did Lincoln's election cause the South to do?

• A. The South left the Union.

• B. The South stopped slavery

• C. The South got more control over the government

What did the 15th amendment do for African Americans?

• A. Gave them voting rights

• B. Gave them freedom of speech

• C. Gave them economic equality

What is the name of the farming system where ex-slaves got land in return for growing crops as payment for the land?

• A. Sharecropping

• B. Reconstruction

What was an effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• A. It gave a moral purpose to the war.

• B. It ended the war.

• C. It freed all slaves.

What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?

• A. Gave rights to African Americans

• B. Protected rights of white Southerners

• C. Allowed Southern women to vote

What ended slavery?

• A. The Thirteenth Amendment

• B. The Emancipation Proclamation

• C. The Freedman's Bureau

What constitutional issue did the Civil War resolve?

• A. Supremacy of the federal government over the states

• B. Right to destroy property in wartime

• C. How a state could leave the Union

What was the goal of "total war" (practiced by Union generals Grant and Sherman)?

• A. To fight until the Confederacy army was destroyed

• B. To fight in every southern state

• C. To break the Southern people's will to fight

Which president ended Reconstruction?

• A. Chester A. Arthur

• B. Rutherford B. Hayes

• C. Ulysses S. Grant

Which word describes the Radical Republican reconstruction plan?

• A. Moderate

• B. Easy

• C. Harsh