Quiz Me! - Documents: Civil War/Reconstruction Test your knowledge about documents in the Civil War/Reconstruction era. 1 / 10 What was a result of the Homestead Act? ALL of the above NONE of the above The United States expanded Native Americans were pushed off their lands The population of the Great Plains grew 2 / 10 Identify the source of the following quote: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” Andrew Johnson’s First Inaugural Address Sam Houston’s Letter to Andrew Johnson Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address 3 / 10 The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was largely based on what document? The U.S. Constitution The English Bill of Rights The Magna Carta The South Carolina Exposition and Protest 4 / 10 What allowed individuals to claim 160 acres of non-occupied land by paying a nominal fee and living on the land for 5 years? Missouri Compromise Homestead Act Kansas-Nebraska Act Omaha Platform 5 / 10 In which speech did Abraham Lincoln conclude, “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” Cooper Union Address Second Inaugural Address First Inaugural Address Gettysburg Address 6 / 10 When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he… believed he had constitutional authority to do so freed all slaves encouraged Britain to abolish slavery did so as a war measure as Commander in Chief 7 / 10 What was one key difference between the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the Confederate States of America? The U.S. Constitution did not include any clauses that dealt with slavery The U.S. Constitution stated slavery would end by 1875 Four clauses of the Confederate Constitution protected the institution of slavery The Confederate Constitution did not establish an executive branch 8 / 10 What document declared slaves in rebelling states to be “forever free”? The Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address The Gettysburg Address The Constitution of the Confederate States of America 9 / 10 In what speech did Abraham Lincoln state, “...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”? His First Inaugural Address His Second Inaugural Address The Gettysburg Address The Emancipation Proclamation 10 / 10 What was Lincoln’s goal at the time of his Second Inaugural Address? To answer his critics To unify the country To humiliate the south To free the slaves Your score is Restart quiz
