Civil War and Reconstruction

Question 1

The number of soldiers that died in the Civil War is

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Equal to all the American wars since 1900

Question 2

The Union victory at this battle allowed President Lincoln to the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Antietam

Question 3

The Union victory here forced General Lee to surrender and ended the war.

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Five Forks

Question 4

Last of a series of battles fought as General Grant pushed towards Richmond.

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Cold Harbor

Question 5

Pres Lincoln issued the ______ which declared all slaves in Confederate states were free.

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Emancipation Proclamation

Question 6

Union victory here gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

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Vicksburg

Question 7

Wrote novel that fired up anti-slavery movement and caused it to grow in size.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 8

One of the biggest changes from the start to the end of the war was

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Total war developed; all civilian property was destroyed.

Question 9

Some of the new technology used for the first time in the Civil War were

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Rifles

Question 10

What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?

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It kept former slaves economically dependent

Question 11

Led a failed raid on Harpers Ferry to attempt to start a slave rebellion.

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John Brown

Question 12

The Union planned to split the confederacy by seizing control of

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The Mississippi River

Question 13

The soldiers of the Civil War were most likely to die from

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Disease

Question 14

The Freedmen’s Bureau made the most lasting impact in

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Education

Question 15

At the start of the war in 1861, the North was fighting to

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Keep the country from splitting apart

Question 16

At the start of the war, one of the few things favoring the South was

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Easier goal of not losing

Question 17

His failed attempt to sue for his freedom alarmed abolitionists.

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Dred Scott

Question 18

The Union plan to slowly defeat the South by surrounding them & cutting off trade was called

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The Anaconda plan

Question 19

The goal of the South at the start of the war in 1861 was to

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Become an independent nation

Question 20

His invention of the cotton gin spurred the growth of slavery.

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Eli Whitney

Question 21

To improve its chances of winning, the Confederate states hoped to get help from

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Great Britain

Question 22

Following the Civil War, many Southern states enacted black codes to

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Restrict the rights of former slaves

Question 23

Part of the Confederate strategy for winning the war was to

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Fight a defensive war

Question 24

The Civil War began when the South fired on _______________ in Charleston Harbor

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Fort Sumter

Question 25

Became president after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865.

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Andrew Johnson

Question 26

Critical battle in Pennsylvania, turned back Confederate invasion of the North.

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Gettysburg

Question 27

The Civil War was essentially over when General Lee surrendered at ________ in April 1865.

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Appomattox Courthouse

Question 28

The states that allowed slavery but did not join the Confederacy are known as

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Border States

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