The Civil war, Reconstruction, and Slavery

Slavery expanded in the 1800’s because of increased profitability and investment in..?

Cotton farming

During the Reform Era, reformers focused on all of the following issues EXCEPT:

Corporate corruption

The anti-slavery movement expanded during

All of the above

The most common form of resistance to slavery was

Working slowly

The middle passage was

The forced trip that enslaved Africans were forced to take from Africa to the Americas

Which abolitionist escaped slavery and then wrote a bestselling autobiography that educated and influenced many Northerners?

Fredrick Douglass

~ the following helped guide runaway slaves to free territory in Canada?

Harriet Tubman

Which of the following led an armed slave rebellion that led to the deaths of numerous slave owners?

Nat Turner

The Emancipation Proclamation banned slavery in

Only in the Confederacy

The admission of new states like Texas and California into the United States often led to political drama and fighting because

The new states could throw off the balance of slave states and free states

Southern states decided to separate from the United States shortly after

Abraham Lincoln became president

One of the South's biggest advantages in the war was

strong military leadership

One of the North's biggest advantages in the war was

Its industrial factories

At the start of the war, President Lincoln said that the main cause of the war was

The preservation of the union

The 13th Amendrnent

Banned slavery

The 14th Amendment

Gave citizenship to all former slaves

Th 15th Amendment

Gave all male freedmen the right to vote

During Reconstruction, which of the following occurred?

Former slaves were able to vote and run for political positions

AFTER the Reconstruction period,

The Ku Klux Klan was able to expand its influence

Which of the following is an example of the Black Codes

Blacks were not allowed to go into many towns and cities

All of the following are examples of the Black Codes EXCEPT

A ban on church attendance

What does "secession" mean?

Breaking away or leaving

At the start of the Civil War, Lincoln stated that the war was about union and not slavery because

He hoped to convince a few slave states to stay part of the Union

When were African Americans' civil rights MOST enforced and protected?

During Reconstruction