Civil War and Reconstruction

Question 1

What was Lincoln's primary objective during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

preserving the Union

Question 2

What term describes someone who wanted to profit politically & financially from Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Carpetbaggers

Question 3

Which amendment deals with the authorities ability to search suspects' homes?

Accepted Answer

4th

Question 4

Who was assassinated on April 14, 1865?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 5

Who was the first black man to be awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroics at Fort Wagner?

Accepted Answer

William H. Carney

Question 6

The 3rd amendment addresses which complaint from the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

"For quartering large bodies of troops among us"

Question 7

The CSA's Cotton Diplomacy plan to finance the war through cotton sales was foiled by...

Accepted Answer

Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan

Question 8

Where did Lee surrender to Grant?

Accepted Answer

Appomattox Court House

Question 9

What event happened last chronologically?

Accepted Answer

the surrender at Appomattox Court House

Question 10

What Union General executed a total war policy throughout Georgia on his March to the Sea?

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

Question 11

Ratification of the 14th amendment was a requirement by the Radical Republicans before...

Accepted Answer

Southern states were allowed readmittance into the Union

Question 12

What finally emancipated all of the slaves in the United States?

Accepted Answer

13th amendment

Question 13

What event happened first chronologically?

Accepted Answer

South Carolina seceded

Question 14

What overturned the Dred Scott decision which said blacks were not citizens?

Accepted Answer

14th amendment

Question 15

Who said at his inauguration"the purpose of the compact of Union from which we have withdrawn?"

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 16

What was the bloodiest single day in U.S. history?

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 17

Whose goal was it to provide food, clothing, medical care and schools to blacks in the South?

Accepted Answer

Freedmen's Bureau

Question 18

What establishes Federalism and the division of power between the nation and states?

Accepted Answer

10th amendment

Question 19

Who is credited with founding the American Red Cross?

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton

Question 20

Which was not an act passed by Congress when the South was absent during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Northwest Ordinance

Question 21

Who was the first black man to win an election for U.S. Senator?

Accepted Answer

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Question 22

Why was the Battle of Gettysburg the turning point of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The South never again had the manpower to invade the north

Question 23

Which amendments deal with the rights of those accused of a crime?

Accepted Answer

4-8

Question 24

What strategical advantage did the capture of Vicksburg give the Union?

Accepted Answer

Control of the Mississippi River

Question 25

Where are the basic rights of all Americans enumerated?

Accepted Answer

Amendments 1 - X

Question 26

The process of restoring relationships between the south and the Union is known as...

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 27

The 13th amendment said which of the following?

Accepted Answer

"neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist"

Question 28

What allowed black men to participate in elections?

Accepted Answer

15th amendment

Question 29

In Lincoln's inauguration address, he refers to states threatening to secede as ...

Accepted Answer

dissatisfied fellow countrymen

Question 30

The Emancipation Proclamation did what?

Accepted Answer

freed the slaves in the rebelling states

Question 31

Geographic and economic differences between different regions in the colonies and nation led to

Accepted Answer

Sectionalism

Question 32

Who led the Confederate troops during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 33

What principle says that legislative and executive powers should't be held by the same person?

Accepted Answer

Separation of Powers

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