Test Review - Civil War & Reconstruction

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  1. 5. The principle of popular sovereignty was an important part of the __________-Nebraska Act.
  2. 7. The practice of slavery was officially ended in the United States with passage of the __________ Amendment.
  3. 9. One way in which Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth are similar is that they all supported the __________ movement.
  4. 10. Throughout the Civil War, an important advantage the North had over the South was that the North had greater __________ capabilities.
  5. 11. After the Civil War, many owners of large plantations in the South responded to the loss of enslaved labor by creating tenant farms and __________.
  6. 13. Slave owners benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in __________ v. Sanford?
  7. 17. Implementation of the __________ Codes was an attempt by southern state governments after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans?
  8. 18. When President __________ was inaugurated several southern states had already seceded from the Union.
  9. 20. After the Civil War, the most common occupations for freedmen were sharecroppers and __________ farmers.
  10. 21. After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew __________ and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union.
  11. 22. One major result of the __________’s victory in the Civil War was that the supremacy of the national government was upheld?
  12. 23. … In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend it.” … President Lincoln made this statement in an effort to urge Congress to convince __________ that he posed no threat to their way of life.
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  1. 1. The common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution was to grant basic ___________ to formerly enslaved persons.
  2. 2. … The whole military force of the State is at the service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia, to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his property; but not a soldier is offered to save a citizen of Massachusetts from being kidnapped! The author of this statement is expressing dissatisfaction with the __________ -slave law, a provision included in the Compromise of 1850.
  3. 3. election of Abraham Lincoln as president led directly to the ___________ of several Southern states from the Union?
  4. 4. President Abraham Lincoln believed that secession is unlawful and treasonous. Everything possible must be done to preserve the ___________.
  5. 5. The __________ formed during Reconstruction with the purpose of keeping African-Americans from exercising rights.
  6. 6. Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” referred to sectional differences over the issue of __________.
  7. 8. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to deny __________ rights to African Americans.
  8. 12. As a result of the Missouri Compromise (1820) the ___________ of power between free and slave states was maintained.
  9. 14. Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act all contributed to the rise of __________ in the United States.
  10. 15. The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Radical Reconstruction by providing for the removal of federal __________ from Southern states.
  11. 16. At the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln stated that the major reason for fighting the war was to uphold the Constitution by preserving the __________.
  12. 19. During the late 1800s, most __________ voters in the South solidly supported the Democratic Party primarily because Democrats disliked the Reconstruction programs of the Republicans.