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Two significant events that made 1863 a turning point in the war were
a) the federal victory at Gettysburg and the Union's capture of Vicksburg
b) the occupation of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea
c) Grant's victory at Antietam and Robert E. Lee's retreat to Virginia
d) the fall of Nashville, Tennessee and Union control of New Orleans

Which of the following statements would be supported by the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?
a) It is illegal to separate people by race because it violates the spirit of the Constitution
b) Segregation is not acceptable based on the 13th and 14th amendments
c) It is OK to have separate schools for blacks and whites, if both have qualified teachers and equal facilities
d) African Americans cannot be denied the right to vote

The bloodiest single day of the war was the Battle of
a) Chancellorsville
b) Picket's Charge
c) First Battle of Bull Run
d) Antietam

The 15th Amendment guaranteed which of the following to black males?
a) suffrage
b) citizenship
c) freedom
d) equal protection of the laws

Reconstruction ended predominantly for what reason?
a) It was too expensive to continue.
b) The South had been rebuilt and no longer needed Reconstructing
c) New laws ensured the welfare of freedmen and a new generation of southern leaders were willing to continue Union policies
d) A compromise that put a Republican in the White House in exchange for withdrawing Union forces from the South

Which of the following was NOT part of the Anaconda Plan?
a) naval blockade
b) take Mississippi River and cut the South in half
c) keep constant pressure on Richmond, Virginia
d) total war

Who was instrumental in founding the NAACP in 1909?
a) Frederick Douglas
b) W.E.B. Du Bois
c) Martin Luther King
d) Booker T. Washington

Who is known for their national anti-lynching crusades?
a) Booker T. Washington
b) Ida B. Wells-Barnette
c) Ulysses S. Grant
d) W.E.B. Du Bois

In response to the passage of the 13th Amendment
a) Southern state governments enacted black codes
b) Congress pulled federal troops out of the South
c) thousands of African Americans voted in the 1868 Election
d) South Carolina seceded from the Union

The first all-black regiment to fight in the Civil War was the
a) Tuskegee Airmen
b) Talented Tenth
c) 54th Massachusetts
d) 82nd Airborne

All of the following statements apply to Booker T. Washington EXCEPT:
a) founded the Tuskegee Institute
b) believed segregation was acceptable
c) believed economic independence was more important for African Americans to achieve than social equality
d) he was a professor at Atlanta University

Which of the following would have been a role of the Freedmen's Bureau?
a) providing assistance and relief to emancipated slaves
b) loaning money to help rebuild the South's postwar economy
c) providing an education to Union soldiers after the war
d) helping Confederate soldiers adjust to life in the post-war South

Which of the following scenarios resulted from Jim Crow laws?
a) African Americans could finally attend white schools
b) 500,000 African Americans voted in the 1868 election
c) African Americans were legally forbidden from marrying a white person
d) White southerners accused of lynching would stand trial in a federal court

Who was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America?
a) Ulysses S. Grant
b) Jefferson Davis
c) Robert E. Lee
d) George McClellan

A humiliating defeat for Union forces, what was the first battle of the Civil War?
a) Antietam
b) Chancellorsville
c) Vicksburg
d) Bull Run

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