2020 Civil War & Reconstruction Quiz

Question 1

Which of the following ended Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1877

Question 2

Which two battles are considered turning points in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Antietam & Gettysburg

Question 3

Which president was associated with the Whiskey Ring scandal?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 4

Which document ended slavery in the South on Jan. 1, 1863?

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 5

President Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act when he fired

Accepted Answer

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

Question 6

Which side controlled Ft. Sumter after the April 12, 1861, attack on the fort?

Accepted Answer

Confederacy

Question 7

Which Reconstruction plan excluded those who held $20,000 or more in taxable property?

Accepted Answer

Presidential Reconstruction

Question 8

This 1862 act of Congress granted settlers 160 acres on the frontier if it was farmed for 5 years.

Accepted Answer

Homestead Act

Question 9

Which Congressional Reconstruction law divided the South into 5 military districts?

Accepted Answer

Military Reconstruction Act

Question 10

Who was elected president of the Confederate States of America in 1861?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 11

Which amendment ended slavery?

Accepted Answer

Thirteenth Amendment

Question 12

What were Southerners who supported the North called in the South during and after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

scalawags

Question 13

The U.S. government forced this border state to remain in the Union at the beginning of the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Question 14

Who became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877?

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 15

Which of the following were Northern immigrants to the South following the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

carpetbaggers

Question 16

What was the Congressional response to the Ten Percent Plan?

Accepted Answer

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 17

Which law was a response to the Black Codes?

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Question 18

Which of the following was NOT a candidate for U.S. president in 1860?

Accepted Answer

Charles Sumner

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 20

The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees

Accepted Answer

voting rights

Question 21

Where did Sherman's March to the Sea occur?

Accepted Answer

Georgia

Question 22

This amendment to the Constitution provides a guarantee of citizenship for all people born in the United States.

Accepted Answer

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 23

President Lincoln's veto of the Wade-Davis Bill led to the

Accepted Answer

Wade-Davis Manifesto

Question 24

Which battle plan called for a blockade, gaining control of the Mississippi, and capturing Richmond?

Accepted Answer

Anaconda Plan

Question 25

Who was Abraham Lincoln's Democratic opponent in the 1864 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

George B. McClellan

2020 Civil War & Reconstruction Quiz

Questions 25

2020 Civil War & Reconstruction Quiz

Questions 25