Virginia and US History SOL Module 3 sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction overview quiz quiz

Tariffs on tea

The future of slavery, especially in the new western territories

The location of the capital

Whether to declare war on Britain

African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in the territories

Secession was legal

Segregation was unconstitutional

Slavery was abolished

The Boston Tea Party

The Dawes Act

The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860

The Louisiana Purchase

Alexandria

Richmond

Norfolk

Roanoke

Both equally

Neither

The Union

The Confederacy

It brought Britain into the war

It ended slavery

It stopped the Confederate invasion of the North and began the Confederacy's decline

It was the first battle of the war

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Appomattox Court House, Virginia, where Lee surrendered to Grant

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Washington, D.C.

It ended the war

It immediately freed every enslaved person in the country

It was the amendment that abolished slavery

It declared enslaved people in the rebelling Confederate states free, reframing the war as a fight against slavery

That the war was a test of whether a government of, by, and for the people could survive

That Britain should rule the colonies

That slavery should expand

That states could leave the Union freely

The 14th Amendment

The 15th Amendment

The 19th Amendment

The 13th Amendment

The 14th Amendment

The 10th Amendment

The 13th Amendment

The 15th Amendment

It collected poll taxes

It enforced segregation

It aided freed people and poor whites with food, labor contracts, and especially schools

It removed American Indians from their land

The Compromise of 1877, which withdrew the last federal troops from the South

The 13th Amendment

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Homestead Act

That 'separate but equal' facilities were constitutional, legalizing segregation

That African Americans could not be citizens

That segregation was unconstitutional

That slavery could expand

Automatic voter registration

Free transportation to the polls

Mail-in ballots

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses

Both opposed education

Both supported segregation

They agreed on everything

Washington urged gradual progress through economic self-reliance, while Du Bois demanded immediate civil and political rights

To grant railroads land

To offer settlers free or cheap western land if they farmed it for several years

To outlaw farming

To remove American Indians from reservations

It ended westward settlement

It destroyed their way of life because they depended on the bison for food, clothing, and shelter

It had no effect

It made them wealthier