U.S. History Unit 1 Review - Genaro

Question 1

This union victory allowed Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 2

Who became president following the Compromise of 1877?

Accepted Answer

Hayes

Question 3

Who assassinated President Lincoln?

Accepted Answer

John Wilkes Booth

Question 4

The Military Reconstruction Act divided the south into how many military districts?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 5

What is the term for allowing voters to decide on slavery?

Accepted Answer

popular soverignty

Question 6

Who were northerners who came to the south to capitalize on their economic ruins?

Accepted Answer

carpetbaggers

Question 7

The south's economy was primarily agrarian, while the north's was primarily...

Accepted Answer

industrial

Question 8

Which act did Johnson veto that led to his impeachment trial?

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Question 9

Early civil war battles spread as far west as...

Accepted Answer

New Mexico

Question 10

The slaughterhouse cases limited the scope of which amendment?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 11

What major expense started to be a reason Reconstruction began losing support?

Accepted Answer

Military operations in the south

Question 12

This battle demonstrated that the war would not end quickly

Accepted Answer

Bull Run

Question 13

African Americans sided with which political party during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Republican

Question 14

Which amendment had to be ratified under Johnson's plan?

Accepted Answer

13

Question 15

Why did confederate currency become distrusted in the south?

Accepted Answer

They didn't trust the government to back up the currency

Question 16

To blocade the south and divide the Confederacy into 2 parts via the Mississippi River was the

Accepted Answer

Anaconda Plan

Question 17

What event ended Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1877

Question 18

What was the most popular women's occupation during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Nurse

Question 19

The first shots of the Civil War are said to have been fired from here

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 20

Which state became a free state according to the Compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 21

Which miltary strategy included striking civilian targets?

Accepted Answer

total war

Question 22

Congressional group that fought sternly for the rights of freed slaves

Accepted Answer

Radical Republicans

Question 23

Which group of citizens were not given voting rights during reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

women

Question 24

Which African American sued for his freedom?

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott

Question 25

Which President's presidency was filled with corruption and scandal?

Accepted Answer

Grant

Question 26

Who was the commander of the Confederate Army

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 27

Who was the famous nurse that helped found the Red Cross?

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton

Question 28

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in what regions?

Accepted Answer

Only in states still in rebellion

Question 29

What was the farming system during Reconstruction that was a viscious cycle of debt for farmers

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping

Question 30

Where did the Confederates surrender?

Accepted Answer

Appomattox

Question 31

Which state became the first battleground between pro-slavery men and abolitionists?

Accepted Answer

Kansas

Question 32

Who was president of the Confederacy?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 33

What was a primary advantage for the south?

Accepted Answer

fighting on their own territory

Question 34

Which president was impeached by congress, but was saved by 1 vote in the senate?

Accepted Answer

Johnson

Question 35

Whose plan called for wealthy planters and Confederate leaders to apply for pardons?

Accepted Answer

Johnson

Question 36

Why was the election of Lincoln in 1860 so controversial in the nation?

Accepted Answer

He wasn't on the ballot in most southern states

Question 37

This legislation made it a federal offence to interfere with a citizen's voting rights

Accepted Answer

Enforcement Act

Question 38

What was primarily a union advantage going into the war?

Accepted Answer

larger population

Question 39

Southerners who sought to gain office now that African Americans could vote were called...

Accepted Answer

scalawags

Question 40

Which president gave high ranking positions to untrustworthy friends and acquaintances?

Accepted Answer

Grant

Question 41

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Accepted Answer

Conducted the Underground Railroad

Question 42

What was a concession that the south wanted to be included in the Compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

the Fugitive Slave Act

Question 43

This was used by the union to force more men to fight in the military

Accepted Answer

conscription

Question 44

Which bloodiest battle was considered the turning point in the civil war?

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Question 45

Voting rights were granted to all citizens with which amendment?

Accepted Answer

15

Question 46

Who attacked the arsenal at Harper's Ferry?

Accepted Answer

John Brown

Question 47

This amendment gave all citizens basic civil rights

Accepted Answer

14

Question 48

Slaves were considered property according to this court decision

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott

Question 49

Which hate group sprang up during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 50

Who proposed the 10% plan

Accepted Answer

Lincoln

Question 51

In Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan, what percentage of voters needed to swear loyalty?

Accepted Answer

10

Question 52

What happened to the South's economy during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

it declined

Question 53

Whose plan required southerners to personally ask for pardons?

Accepted Answer

Johnson

Question 54

Southerners who sought to gain back what was lost from the south were called...

Accepted Answer

Redeemers

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U.S. History Unit 1 Review - Genaro

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