SS 8th Grade Vocabulary Quiz

A Reconstruction Amendment that abolished slavery in the U.S.

• 2nd

• 13th

• 19th

• 25th

What is a Buffer (colony)?

• A Reconstruction Amendment that abolished slavery in the U.S.

• A war between citizens of the same country

• A territory geographically lying between two rivals or potentially hostile great powers

• Georgia’s first planned city

President of the Confederacy during the American Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Stephens

• Jefferson Davis

• William T. Sherman

President of the Union during the American Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Stephens

• Jefferson Davis

• William T. Sherman

A war between citizens of the same country 

• Confederacy

• Civil War

• Colony

• Reconstruction

Georgia's first planned city was Macon: true or false?

• False: the 1st planned city was Atlanta

• True: Macon was the 1st planned city

• True: Atlanta was the first planned city

• False: Savannah was the first planned city

Which 2 statements were true about the Confederate States of America?

• An unrecognized breakaway confederate republic

• Took place in the Northern United State

• Took place in the Southern United State

• Guaranteed by the U.S. constitution

Effective January 1, 1863, this proclamation freed all slaves in the Confederate states

• Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Reconstruction

The Emancipation Proclamation abolished all slavery in the United States

• True

• False

Laws passed to discriminate against black people after Reconstruction

• Jim Crow

• Slavery

• Indentured Servitude

• Black Codes