U.S. History Civil War Review

Which of the following was the MAIN goal of Abraham Lincoln upon his election?

Why was the Union victory at Vicksburg so important?

Which best represents an example of Southern Democratic opposition to Reconstruction?

What issue led to the caning of Charles Sumner in the United States Senate?

What were the black codes and Jim Crow Laws in the South designed to do?

General Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan" involved all of the following except which one?

What act allowed an African American to be taken into custody on a claim they escaped slavery?

When does the period of time known as the Antebellum Period take place?

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Which of the following gained control of Reconstruction after the first 2 years (after 1867)?

Which of the following did Andrew Johnson violate, leading to his impeachment?

What was the importance of the first major battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run?

What was the effect of Stonewall Jackson losing his left arm and dying shortly afterwards?

What ended the period of Military Reconstruction?

Who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln?

What was the most important effect of the Dred Scott decision?

Which of the following was an outcome of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Who were the Northern Democrats known as "Copperheads?"

Who did Abraham Lincoln refer to as "The Little Lady who started this big war?"

What was the importance of the Union's victory at Vicksburg?

What was the negative effect of sharecropping and tenant farming?

Why didn’t Lincoln free the slaves who were in the Union in his Emancipation Proclamation?

Which of the following became the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Southern states began seceding from the Union shortly after which event?

What was the most important effect of William Sherman's March on the Confederacy?

What was the difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstructional plans?

What did the 15th amendment grant?

In addition to making freed slaves citizens, what did the 14th amendment also do?

Which of the following was an aim of the Ku Klux Klan?

Which of the following is correct regarding the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Which scandal showed Republican abuse of power during President Grant's administration?

Who was the general that Abraham Lincoln fired because he was considered too cautious?

Which of the following groups were described as “scalawags” by native white Southerners?

What was the result of the Radicals in congress attempt to remove Andrew Johnson as President?

Which of the following events signified the beginning of the Civil War?

What was the most important goal of Reconstruction?

The strongest opponents of slavery formed which of the following parties in the 1850’s?

The Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led many Southerners to which conclusion?

Harriet Tubman led which group to freedom as conductor of the Underground Railroad?

Which state was the first state to secede from the Union?

Which of the following ideas was associated with Stephen Douglas' Freeport Doctrine?

At the end of the Civil War, the vast majority of freed slaves found work as: