Civil War & Reconstruction Review

Question 1

• Who won the Presidential Election of 1860?

Question 2

• Which southern state was the first to secede from the Union?

Question 3

• Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?

Question 4

• What did the 13th Amendment do?

Question 5

• Which general led the destructive “march through the South”?

Question 6

• After Lincoln’s assassination, who became POTUS?

Question 7

• What did the 15th Amendment do?

Question 8

• What is “impeachment”?

Question 9

• Pres. Andrew Johnson survived removal from office by how many votes?

Question 10

• Why did Lincoln suspend habeas corpus during the Civil War?

Question 11

• Who was chosen to lead the Confederate Army?

Question 12

• Which Union general later would be elected as POTUS?

Question 13

• Victory at the Battle of _____ and Vicksburg were the major turning points of the war.

Question 14

• How was the Presidential Election of 1876 resolved?

Question 15

• At the beginning of the Civil War, what was Pres. Lincoln’s #1 goal?

Question 16

• Name two advantages that the South had during the beginning of the Civil War.

Question 17

• Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

Question 18

• Who founded the American Red Cross?

Question 19

• What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Question 20

• Who was declared the winner of the Presidential Election of 1876?

Question 21

• What was the bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War?

Question 22

• What were the new ships developed during the Civil War called?

Question 23

• Which group was left out of the 15th Amendment?

Question 24

• Which Union general refused to run for POTUS even though many thought he should?

Question 25

• What happened to Robert E. Lee’s estate during & after the Civil War?

Question 26

• What did the 14th Amendment do?

Question 27

• Who shot and killed Pres. Lincoln?

Question 28

• After Pres. Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Right Act of 1866, what did Congress do?

Question 29

• What is a “poll tax”?

Question 30

• Who won the popular vote in the Presidential Election of 1876?

Question 31

• What was a “grandfather clause”?

Question 32

• Name the two presidents who have been impeached. (They both survived the trial in the Senate.)

Question 33

• Who is the only American President to resign?

Question 34

• What were “literacy tests”?

Question 35

• What was Pres. Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called?

Question 36

• Why was the railroad system important to the North’s victory?

Question 37

• Who won the American Civil War?

Question 38

• What the new system of agriculture developed in the South after the Civil War?

Question 39

• What were Black Codes?

Question 40

• In the years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, what happened to many former slaves?