Civil War and Reconstruction

Guaranteed the right of a citizen to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

What was the South's main army in the East?

Who was the first president to be impeached?

Which of the following centered on New York City government?

Greenbacks are money not backed by gold or silver.

What were the Copperheads?

Who was the politician who successfully fought corruption in New York?

Who had one of the most scandal-ridden administrations in American history?

Who was the New York newspaper editor who ran for president in 1872?

Waht event made British intervention in the Civil War highly unlikely?

Redeemers were the Southerners who wanted to oust Republican rule.

What was the Northern ironclad?

Who was the corrupt leader who cheated New York City out of millions of dollars?

Why did sharecropping become common in the South during Reconstruction?

Near-unanimous support of the Democaratic Party in the former Confederate states following Reconstruction

What event first made the North and the South realize that the Civil War would not soon end?

What was NOT a direct oncsequence of Reconstruction?

Why did the North attempt to capture the Mississippi River?

What was the Southern ironclad that threatened to break the blockade?

What was an attempt to restrict the rights of former slaves?

Who was the winner in a highly contested presidential election?

What was the North's main army in the East?

What was the name of the group that lynched many freedmen?

A border state was a

Reconstrue refers to the period from 1865 to 1877 during which the government tried to rebuild the South.

The significance of the clash between the Monitor and the Merrimack was that the

Who was the political cartoonist who advocated reforms?

What was NOT a fundamental part of the Northern strategy for victory?

What was the primary reason Andrew Johnson was impeached?

Who were the Southerners who supported the new Southern governments?

What was LIncoln's proposal to reestablish civilian government in the South quickly?

Northerners who moved to the South after the war were called

Sherman's destruction of Georgia

Which of the following generals gave the Union a distinct advantage with his leadership in the West?

continual fighting in the woods north of Richmond

The Anaconda Plan was the effort to blockade the North and capture the Mississippi River.

John Phone Booth assassinated President Lincoln.

What was one of the South's primary advantages at the outset of the war?

What was the South's basic strategy for victory during the war?

Which of the following was NOT a border state?

The Thirteenth Amendment guaranteed citizenship rights for freed slaves.

What state was admitted into the Union during the war?

What event marked the end of Reconstruction?

The loss of what railroad junction was the final blow to the Confederacy?

Denial of someone's right to vote is known as disenfranchisement.

What required that a majority of voters in each Southern state sign an oath of allegiance?

Which of the following men was NOT a Confederate general?

Impeachment charges can be brought against a president by the House of Representatives.

When did Reconstruction end?

The Freedmen's Bureau was designed to help former slaves and refugees after the Civil War.

The Fourteenth Amendment abolished slavery.

Sharefarming is the method for freed slaves to farm the land without cash.

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into five military districts.

the Emanicipation Proclamation declared all slaves free

Conscription means the draft, or the compulsory enrollment of men into military service.

Who supported HOrace Greeley in the 1872 presidential election?

Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address to dedicate a war cemetery.

The Radical Republicans wanted to deal harshly with the South after the Civil War.

The capture of what city ensured Lincoln's reelection in 1864?

Who was Hiram Revels?

What was NOT one of the provisions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

What was NOT one of the functions of the Freedmen's Bureau?

Why did Robert E. Lee choose to fight against the Union?

What did the Republicans offer Southern Democrats in return for their support in choosing Hayes as president?

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation for all the following reasons EXCEPT