civil war reconstruction test review

CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION

TEST REVIEW

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QUESTION•WHAT ARE TWO NICKNAMES FOR THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS?

ANSWER:•REB•JOHNNY REB•SECESS

QUESTION•WHAT ARE TWO NICKNAMES FOR THE UNION SOLDIERS?

ANSWER:•BLUE BELLIES•YANKEES

QUESTION•WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY?

ANSWER:•JEFFERSON DAVIS

QUESTION•WHO WAS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE CIVIL WAR?

ANSWER:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

QUESTION•WHO WAS PRES. LINCOLN’S FIRST VICE PRESIDENT?

ANSWER:

•HANNIBAL HAMLIN

QUESTION•WHO WAS PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S VICE PRESIDENT THAT BECAME PRESIDENT WHEN LINCOLN DIED?

ANSWER:•ANDREW JOHNSON

QUESTION•WHO ASSASSINATED PRES. LINCOLN?

ANSWER:•JOHN WILKES BOOTH

QUESTION•WHAT WAS THE SINGLE BLOODIEST DAY OF THE CIVIL WAR?

ANSWER:•ANTIETAM

QUESTION•WHAT WAS THE SINGLE BLOODIEST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR?

ANSWER:•GETTYSBURG

QUESTION•WHICH CIVIL WAR BATTLE INVOLVES BOTH SIDES WEARING THE SAME COLOR UNIFORM AND THE BATTLE SPILLS OVER INTO THE SPECTATOR SEATS?

ANSWER:•FIRST BULL RUN

QUESTION•WHICH SIDE FIRED THE FIRST SHOTS AT FT. SUMTER?

ANSWER:•THE CONFEDERATES

QUESTION•WHO WAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNION WHEN THEY FIRED UPON FT. SUMTER?

ANSWER:•LINCOLN

QUESTION•WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN THEY FOUGHT THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN?

ANSWER:•LINCOLN

QUESTION•WHO IS THE MAN THAT COULD NOT ESCAPE THE CIVIL WAR? B/C IT STARTED IN HIS FRONT YARD AND ENDED IN HIS FRONT PARLOR.

ANSWER:•WILMER MACLEAN

QUESTION•WHAT COUNTRY DID THE SOUTH EXPECTED TO HELP THEM?

ANSWER:•GREAT BRITAIN•NO, THEY DID NOT HELP THEM

QUESTION•DURING THE CIVIL WAR, RATHER THAN FIGHT WITH THE CONFEDERACY,WHICH STATE DIVIDED INTO TWO STATES?

ANSWER:•VIRGINIA DIVIDED INTO VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA

QUESTION•WHO WAS THE GENERAL THAT COMMANDED ALL OF THE CONFEDERATE FORCES?

ANSWER:•ROBERT E. LEE

QUESTION•WHO WAS THE GENERAL WHO SMOKE AND DRANK TOO MUCH THAT COMMANDED ALL OF THE UNION FORCES?

ANSWER:•U.S. GRANT

QUESTION•WHO WROTE UNCLE TOM’S CABIN?

ANSWER:•HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

QUESTION•WHO WROTE AND DELIVERED THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS?

ANSWER:•LINCOLN•BUT, HE WAS NOT THE KEY NOTE SPEAKER

QUESTION•WHO WAS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. WHEN THE FIRST STATE SECEDED FROM THE UNION?

ANSWER:•JAMES BUCHANAN

QUESTION•WHAT WAS THE FIRST STATE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION?

ANSWER:•SOUTH CAROLINA

QUESTION•WHO OWNED THE PROPERTY WHERE THE CIVIL WAR STARTED AND ENDED?

ANSWER:•WILMER MACLEAN, THE MAN THAT COULD NOT ESCAPE THE CIVIL WAR

QUESTION•WHICH CONFEDERATE GENERAL DIED OF WOUNDS HE RECEIVED BY HIS OWN SOLDIERS?

ANSWER:•GEN. STONEWALL JACKSON

QUESTION•WHO IS THE PERSON WHO ACTUALLY FIRED THE FIRST SHOTS AT FT. SUMTER?

ANSWER:•EDMUND RUFFIN FIRED THE SHOT AT FT. SUMTER

QUESTION•WHICH GENERAL WAS OFFERED COMMAND OF FORCES BY BOTH SIDES BUT CHOSE THE SOUTH B/C HE COULD NOT FIGHT AGAINST HIS BROTHERS?

ANSWER:•ROBERT E. LEE•HE TOOK THE JOB WITH THE CONFEDERATES

QUESTION•WHICH CONFEDERATE GENERAL’S HOME BECAME ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY?

ANSWER:•ROBERT E. LEE’S HOME IS NOW ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY

QUESTION•WHAT IS THE ALL BALCK REGIMENT THAT IS FEATURED IN THE MOVIE GLORY? WHO IS THEIR COMMANDER?

ANSWER:•54TH MASSACHUESSTTS

•THE LEADER WAS ROBERT GOULD SHAW

QUESTION•WHICH FAMOUS BATTLE TOOK PLACE BECAUSE THE CONFEDERATES WER LOOKING FOR SHOES?

ANSWER:•GETTYSBURG• The battle of Gettysburg, PA took place on

July1-3, 1863.

• Major fighting occurred around Little Round top hill.

• The North won this battle.

• On November 19,1863. President Lincoln gave Gettysburg Address.

QUESTION•WHICH BATTLE INVOLVED A UNION SOLDIER FINDING THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE PLANS WRAPPED AROUND CIGARS?

ANSWER:•ANTIETAM• The battle is known as the Single bloodiest

day in the Civil War.

• 23,500 men were killed in the Bloody lane

QUESTION•AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR, WHAT DID PRES. LINCOLN BELIEVE WAS THE REASON FOR THE WAR?

ANSWER:•TO PRESERVE THE UNION

QUESTION•WHO DID THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FREE?

ANSWER:•SLAVES IN THE REBELLIOUS STATES

QUESTION•WHICH AMENDMENT ABOLISHED SLAVERY IN THE U.S.?

ANSWER:•13TH AMENDMENT

QUESTION•WHICH AMENDMENT SAID THE FORMER SLAVES DEFINITELY HAD THE RIGHT TO VOTE?

ANSWER:•15TH AMENDMENT

QUESTION•WHICH AMENDMENT MADE THE FORMER SLAVES FULL CITIZENS?

ANSWER:•14TH AMENDMENT

QUESTION•WHAT ARE THE THREE KEY WORDS TO REMEMBER THE 13TH, 14TH, AND 15TH AMENDMENTS?

ANSWER:•13TH----FREE•14TH---CITIZENS•15TH---VOTE

QUESTION•WHICH GENERAL MARCHED TO THE SEA?

ANSWER:•GEN. SHERMAN, HE MARCHED FROM ATLANTA TO SAVANNAH

QUESTION•WHICH CONFEDERATE GENERAL WAS MARRIED TO MARTHA WASHINGTON’S GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER? HINT: THEY LIVED IN MARTHA’S FAMILY MANSION.

ANSWER:•ROBERT E. LEE

QUESTION•WHO IS THE MOST FAMOUS UNDERGROUND RAILROAD CONDUCTOR?

ANSWER:•HARRIET TUBMAN

QUESTION•WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE NORTH’S STRATEGY TO WIN THE CIVIL WAR?

ANSWER:•ANACONDA PLAN

QUESTION•WHERE DID LEE SURRENDER TO GRANT?

ANSWER:•APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE, VIRIGINIA

•HE SURRENDERED IN WILMER MACLEAN’S PARLOR

QUESTION•DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, WHICH PRESIDENT WAS IMPEACHED? WAS HE REMOVED FROM OFFICE?

ANSWER:•ANDREW JOHNSON WAS IMPEACHED

•NO HE WAS NOT•IT WAS ONE VOTE SHORT

QUESTION•WHO WAS PRESIDENT AFTER PRES. ANDREW JOHNSON?

ANSWER:•U.S. GRANT•HE SERVED FOR 2 TERMS

•HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS CORRUPT

QUESTIONDURING RECONSTRUCTION, WHICH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION INVOLVED A BARGAIN BEING MADE TO DECIDE WHO WON THE ELECTION?

ANSWER:•ELECTION OF 1876

QUESTION•WHO WON THE ELECTION OF 1876?

•WHAT WAS THE BARGAIN THAT WAS MADE THAT WON HIM THIS ELECTION?

ANSWER:•HAYES WON•B/C THE DEAL WAS HAYES BECAME PRESIDENT AND RECONSTRUCTION WAS OVER.

QUESTION•DID THE WADE DAVIS BILL BECOME LAW?

•HOW DID PRES. LINCOLN HANDLE THE WADE DAVIS BILL?

ANSWER:•NO, IT DID NOT BECOME LAW

•HE USED POCKET VETO TO KILL THE BILL

QUESTION•DURING RECONSTRUCTION, WHICH PRESIDENT’S ADMINISTRATION WAS VERY CORRUPT?

QUESTION•U.S. GRANT

QUESTION•WHEN PRESIDENT JOHNSON FIRED SEC. OF WAR STANTON, WHAT LAW DID HE VIOLATE?

ANSWER:•THE RADIACAL REPUBLICANS SAID HE VIOLATED THE TENURE OF OFFICE ACT

QUESTION•HOW CLOSE TO BEING REMOVED FROM OFFICE DID JOHNSON REALLY GET?

ANSWER:•1 VOTE SHORT

QUESTION•WHOSE RECONSTRUCTION PLAN WAS THE MOST LENIENT ON THE SOUTH?

ANSWER:•LINCOLN’S PLAN WAS THE MOST LENIENT

QUESTION•WHOSE RECONSTRUCTION PLAN WAS HARSHEST?

ANSWER:•RADICAL REPUBLICAN RECONSTRUCTION WAS THE HARSHEST

QUESTION•DID SHARECROPPERS AND TENANT FARMERS OWN THE LAND THEY FARMED?

ANSWER:•NO, THEY DID NOT OWN THEIR LAND

QUESTION•DURING RECONSTRUCTION, DID WOMEN GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE?

ANSWER:•NO, WOMEN DID NOT GET SUFFRAGE

QUESTION•DID THE PROGRESS TOWARDS EQUALITY THAT WAS MADE DURING RECONSTRUCTION LAST?

ANSWER:•NO, IT DID NOT LAST

QUESTION•WHAT ARE THREE THINGS THAT WERE USED TO KEEP THE FORMER SLAVES FROM VOTING?

ANSWER:•LITERACY TESTS•GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

•POLL TAX

QUESTION•WHAT IS THE NAME FOR THE SLAVE STATES THAT DID NOT SECEDE FROM THE UNION?

ANSWER:•BORDER STATES•THEY WERE: MARYLAND DELAWAREKENTUCKY

MISSOURI

QUESTION•WHO IS THE FAMOUS CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHER?

ANSWER:•MATHEW BRADY

QUESTION•WHAT IS CONSCRIPTION?

ANSWER:•THE DRAFT

QUESTION•WHO COLLECTED MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND NURSED SOLDIERS ON THE BATTLE FIELD?

ANSWER:•CLARA BARTON

QUESTION•WHO IS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY?

ANSWER:•ALEXANDER STEVENS

QUESTION•DURING THE CIVIL WAR WHO BLOCKADED WHO?

•DID THE BLOCKADE WORK?

ANSWER:•THE UNION BLOCKADED THE SOUTH

•IT WORKED VERY WELL

QUESTION•WHAT UNION VICTORY SPLIT THE CONFEDERACY?

ANSWER:•THE UNION VICTORY AT VICKSBURG

QUESTION•DID THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION END SLAVERY IN THE ENTIRE U.S.?

ANSWER:•NO, NO, NO!!!

QUESTION•WHAT IS THE HORRIBLE PRISONER OF WAR CAMP THAT WAS IN GEORGIA?

ANSWER:•THAT WOULD BE ANDERSONVILLE

QUESTION•WAS GETTYSBURG A UNION OR CONFEDERATE VICTORY?

ANSWER:•GETTYSBURG IS A UNION VICTORY

QUESTION•WAS FIRST BULL RUN A UNION OR CONFEDERATE VICTORY?

ANSWER:•FIRST BULL RUN IS A CONFEDERATE VICTORY

QUESTION•WHO WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN SENATOR?

ANSWER:•HIRAM REVELS

QUESTION•WAS THE MAJORITY OF THE CIVIL WAR FOUGHT IN THE NORTH OR IN THE SOUTH?

ANSWER:•THE MAJORITY OF IT WAS FOUGHT IN THE SOUTH

QUESTION•WHAT THINGS BEGAN TO CONCERN THE COUNTRY MORE THAN RECONSTRUCTION?

ANSWER:•THE DEPRESSION•GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

•INDIANS & THE WEST

QUESTION•WHY DID THE ENTIRE CIVIL WAR NOT END WHEN LEE SURRENDERED?

ANSWER:•BECAUSE IT WOULD TAKE TIME FOR THE OTHER GENERALS TO GET THE MESSAGE.

QUESTION•WAS JEFFERSON DAVIS HANGED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR?

ANSWER:•NO, HE WAS PUT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR 2 YEARS.

QUESTION•DID LEE SURRENDER TO GRANT OR BURNSIDE?

ANSWER:•LEE SURRENDERED TO GRANT

QUESTION•WHAT IS THE CORRECT ORDER OF THE PRESIDENTS FROM BUCHANAN TO HAYES?

ANSWER:•THE CORRECT ORDER IS:

–BUCHANAN–LINCOLN–JOHNSON–GRANT–HAYES

QUESTION•WHO WAS HEAD OR SUPERINTENDENT OF THE UNION NURSES?

ANSWER:DOROTHEA DIX

QUESTION•WHAT METHODS DID BOTH SIDES USE TO FINANCE THE CIVIL WAR?

ANSWER:•TAXES•SOLD BONDS•PRINTED PAPER MONEY

QUESTION•WHAT IS THE TERM FOR THE VERY RESTRICTIVE LAWS THE FORMER SLAVES HAD TO OBEY?

ANSWER:•BLACK CODES

QUESTION•DURING RECONSTRUCTION WERE THE FORMER SLAVES SOCIALLY & POLITICALLY EQUAL?

ANSWER:•NO

QUESTION•WHAT AGENCY WAS SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE FOOD, CLOTHING & EDUCATION FOR THE FORMER SLAVES?

ANSWER:•THE FREEDMEN’S BUREAU

QUESTION•WHICH SIDE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF AN ESTABLISHED ARMY, NAVY, & GOVERNMENT?

ANSWER:•THE NORTH

QUESTION•WHICH SIDE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF FIGHTING A DEFENSIVE WAR/

ANSWER:•THE SOUTH

QUESTION•WHICH SIDE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING BETTER MARKSMEN AND BETTER AT OUTDOOR LIVING?

ANSWER:•THE SOUTH

QUESTION•WHICH SIDE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF THE MOST MONEY, FACTORIES & RAILROADS?

ANSWER:•THE NORTH

QUESTION•WHICH SIDE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING THE BEST OFFICERS?

ANSWER:•THE SOUTH

QUESTION•WHAT IS THE TERM FOR A YANKEE THAT MOVED TO THE SOUTH TO GET RICH FROM RECONSTRUCTION?

ANSWER:•THEY ARE CALLED CARPETBAGGERS

•THE SOUTHERN VERSION IS A SCALAWAG

QUESTION•WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE FAMOUS IRONCLADS?

ANSWER:•THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC

•THE MERRIMAC WAS THE CONFEDERATE

QUESTION•WHAT IS THE TERM FOR WARFARE THAT IS DIRECTED AT BOTH MILITARY AND CIVILIAN TARGETS?

ANSWER:•TOTAL WARFARE•SHERMAN USED TOTAL WARFARE

QUESTION•COULD YOU REALLY PAY SOMEONE TO FIGHT FOR YOU DURING THE CIVIL WAR?

ANSWER:•YES, IT WAS $10,000 IN THE CONFEDERACY.

QUESTION•DID UNION ARMY PAY THE BLACK SOLDIERS GET THE SAME AMOUNT AS THE WHITE SOLDIERS?

ANSWER:•NO•A WHITE SOLDIER GOT $13 AND THE BLACK SOLDIER GOT $10, PER MONTH

QUESTIONDID GENERAL SHERIDAN DO THE SAME THING TO THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY THAT SHERMAN DID TO GEORGIA?

ANSWER:•YES, HE DID•HE JUST DOESN’T GET AS MUCH PUBLICITY

QUESTION•IS IT TRUE THAT IF YOU OWNED MORE THAN 20 SLAVES THAT ONE MAN FROM THE FAMILY DID NOT HAVE TO FIGHT IN THE WAR?

ANSWER:•YES, THE CONFEDERACY WOULD HAVE EXCUSED A MAN FOR THAT REASON.

QUESTION•WAS PRESIDENT JOHNSON REMOVED FROM OFFICE?

ANSWER:•NO

QUESTION•WHICH SIDE WON THE CIVIL WAR?

ANSWER:•THE NORTH WON THE CIVIL WAR