Civil War & Reconstruction Review

Question 1

What battle gave the Union army control of the whole Mississippi River?

Accepted Answer

Vicksburg

Question 2

What was the bloodiest DAY of the whole Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 3

Which Union general proved to be most effective?

Accepted Answer

General Grant

Question 4

The ______ supplied food, education, transportation, and medical services to African Americans.

Accepted Answer

Freedmen's Bureau

Question 5

What was the bloodiest BATTLE of the whole Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Question 6

The ____ Amendment prohibited denying the vote to all male citizens based on race, etc.

Accepted Answer

Fifteenth

Question 7

What was one advantage the Southern states had during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Home field advantage

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a way Southerners denied African-Americans their civil rights?

Accepted Answer

Share Cropping

Question 9

The Supreme Court case that established the doctrine of “separate but equal” was __________.

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 10

The commanding general of many Confederate victories was __________.

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 11

What was the result of the battle between the USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack (Virginia)?

Accepted Answer

That “Ironclad” ships were superior to wooden ships

Question 12

What does “Let us draw a cordon around the slave estates, and it will perish of its own.” mean?

Accepted Answer

That slavery would destroy itself in the end

Question 13

Which of the following is TRUE of General Winfield Scotts’ Anaconda Plan?

Accepted Answer

All of the others

Question 14

In Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address he promised to do what?

Accepted Answer

To keep things the way they were and preserve the Union

Question 15

Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called for all the following EXCEPT________.

Accepted Answer

States must declare secession illegal

Question 16

During the war, the economy of the South _________.

Accepted Answer

was severely strained by the North's blockade

Question 17

The last attack of the Battle of Gettysburg is known as __________.

Accepted Answer

Pickett's Charge

Question 18

The North held the advantage over the South in each of the following areas EXCEPT __________.

Accepted Answer

knowledge of territory

Question 19

The first major battle of the war was __________.

Accepted Answer

the 1st Battle of Bull Run

Question 20

Who planed and supported a military occupation of Southern states a part of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Radical Republicans

Question 21

Which was included in the Republican Party platform of the election of 1860?

Accepted Answer

Slavery should be left where it existed but nowhere else.

Question 22

The first state to secede from the Union was __________.

Accepted Answer

South Carolina

Question 23

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 24

The __________ Amendment abolished slavery.

Accepted Answer

Thirteenth

Question 25

Which of the following is FALSE about Abraham Lincoln?

Accepted Answer

He was a lifelong Republican

Question 26

By gaining control of the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers, what was the Union able to do?

Accepted Answer

split the Confederacy.

Question 27

John Wilkes Booth __________.

Accepted Answer

assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Question 28

In 1860 the Republican candidate for president was __________.

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 29

The phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” is from __________.

Accepted Answer

the Gettysburg Address

Question 30

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, . . .”

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Independence

Question 31

Which one of the following was NOT a border state during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 32

Which of the following groups of people were called as “Carpetbaggers” during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Northerners living in the South

Question 33

During the Grant administration, _______.

Accepted Answer

the North felt that the South should solve its own problems

Question 34

The single bloodiest day of the war was the Battle of __________.

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 35

“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary... to dissolve the political bands."

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Independence

Question 36

The __________ Amendment granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States.

Accepted Answer

Fourteenth

Question 37

Where did Grant receive the nickname “The Butcher” after nearly being run into the river?

Accepted Answer

Shiloh

Question 38

One of the most famous African American regiments was the __________.

Accepted Answer

54th Massachusetts

Question 39

“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, . . .”

Accepted Answer

Constitution

Question 40

Which of the following was NOT a name for the SOUTH during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Yankees

Question 41

Which of the following was NOT a reason why Robert E. Lee invaded the Union?

Accepted Answer

None of the others

Question 42

Which event caused so much tension in the South that the first states left the Union?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln was elected President

Question 43

After which Union victory did Lincoln make the Emancipation Proclamation?

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 44

The idea that England would help the Confederates in exchange for cotton was known as _______.

Accepted Answer

Cotton Diplomacy

Question 45

At which battle did the Confederate Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson earn the nickname “Stonewall?”

Accepted Answer

1st Bull Run

Question 46

Why did Abraham Lincoln have to sneak into Washington D.C. when he first became President?

Accepted Answer

Because of a plot to assassinate him in Baltimore

Question 47

What did the Emancipation Proclamation say?

Accepted Answer

all slaves in the rebelling states were freed

Question 48

General William Tecumseh Sherman “March to the sea is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

Total War

Question 49

Before becoming President, Lincoln was employed as a _______.

Accepted Answer

Lawyer

Question 50

One major result of the Emancipation Proclamation was __________.

Accepted Answer

Britain & France's decision not to recognize the Confederacy

Question 51

President __________ declared the end of Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

Hayes

Question 52

What was Lincoln’s view on slavery before becoming President?

Accepted Answer

He thought it would die out on its own

Question 53

“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom . . .”

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg Address

Question 54

Southern whites who supported the Republicans were called ________.

Accepted Answer

scalawags

Question 55

Many Southern states required a _____, before a person could vote.

Accepted Answer

poll tax

Question 56

Which of the following is TRUE of Lincoln?

Accepted Answer

He served in the militia during the Blackhawk War

Question 57

Where was the first fighting of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 58

Which of the following was NOT a name for the UNION during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Rebels

Question 59

If I could save the Union without... and if I could save it by freeing all... I would do it.

Accepted Answer

That he would do whatever it took to preserve the Union

Question 60

Lee surrendered to Grant at __________.

Accepted Answer

Appomattox Court House

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