American Civil War

Question 1

The term __________________ refers to those people who came from the North to the South, either to aid in Reconstruction or as political and economic opportunists.

Answer 1

Carpetbaggers

Question 2

Republican governments were able to establish what in the South during Reconstruction?

Answer 2

State schools

Question 3

Which state had to be readmitted to the Union twice after members of the state legislature refused to seat twenty-eight black members who had been fairly voted into office?

Answer 3

Georgia

Question 4

Because slave owners had done their best to keep slaves illiterate, many believed that __________ was what African Americans needed to advance in society.

Answer 4

Education

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT true of the blacks in the South under military rule?

Answer 5

former slaves overwhelmingly ran for political office

Question 6

Unlike Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty, Johnson’s Proclamation excluded from pardon all southerners who:

Answer 6

Owned taxable property worth over 20,000

Question 7

To restrict the civil rights of freed blacks, many southern states adopted “__________ __________” that placed blacks into a situation that closely resembled slavery.

Answer 7

Black Codes

Question 8

Under the “forfeited rights theory,” the_____________, not the President, had the authority to reconstruct the South

Answer 8

Congress

Question 9

What was the fear of the Radical Republicans regarding Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction?

Answer 9

They feared that he would act without them, overstepping his executive authority.

Question 10

Why did Lincoln employ the pocket veto against the Wade-Davis Bill?

Answer 10

He didn’t want to commit to a reconstruction plan until the war was officially over.

Question 11

Congress believed the government was dealing with __________, and therefore the burden Reconstruction lay with the legislative branch.

Answer 11

revolting states

Question 12

Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, issued in late 1863, also known as the Ten Percent Plan ______________________________.

Answer 12

Allowed the confederated states to form a loyal government when 10% of those who voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the union.

Question 13

Approximately how many American soldiers died in the Civil War?

Answer 13

600,000

Question 14

One of the most important impacts of the Civil War was the shift in power away from the states and toward the _______________ government in the United States.

Answer 14

Federals

Question 15

Although the entrenched views of women remained, the war offered women more opportunities outside of the __________ sphere, including supporting the war effort as nurses or taking jobs such as clerks or managers.

Answer 15

home

Question 16

Which of the following was the highest cause of death for Union and Confederate soldiers in the Civil War?

Answer 16

Disease

Question 17

After the Union took control of eastern Tennessee, Lincoln believed he had finally found a competent commander and promoted which Union general to be general in chief?

Answer 17

Grant

Question 18

to make slow, cautious movements in the hopes that the Confederacy would fall elsewhere

Answer 18

all forms of involuntary servitude

Question 19

How many African Americans served in the Union army during the Civil War?

Answer 19

180,000

Question 20

Why did the Confederate attempts to raise revenue by tariffs not work?

Answer 20

Blockade

Question 21

During the Election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln’s nomination was almost blocked by the ___________ Republicans.

Answer 21

Radical Republicans

Question 22

As the Civil War raged on, Southern planters not only lost control of their slaves, they also lost the support of poor whites who believed _____________________________.

Answer 22

they were paying the price to support the power of the planter aristocracy

Question 23

The first major land battle of the Civil War was __________.

Answer 23

Bull Run

Question 23

The first major land battle of the Civil War was __________.

Answer 23

Bull Run

Question 24

General Winfield Scott proposed the __________ __________, a system that called for the North to encircle and divide the Confederacy.

Answer 24

Anaconda plan

Question 25

The _________ __________ Movement became a powerful force in the 1850s and eventually contributed to the rise of the Republican Party.

Answer 25

Free Soil

Question 26

What was the major characteristic of American political parties by the late 1850’s

Answer 26

Their attention was mostly focused on Western expansion

Question 27

Which major American political party faded from the political scene in the 1850’s

Answer 27

Whigs

Question 28

The _____ _____ of 1820 allowed Americans to avoid discussion of slavery in national politics

Answer 28

Missouri compromise

Question 29

Which amendment to the Constitution did John C Calhoun claim protected the southerners rights to take their slaves into western territories

Answer 29

The fifth

Question 30

Which politician hoped to see the Continental Railroad go through the southern part of the United States and helped convince Congress to make the Gadsden Purchase?

Answer 30

Jefferson Davis

Question 31

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 31

Sectionalism in the united states ended for a short time

Question 32

Which of the following was NOT true concerning General Winfield Scott’s nomination in the election of 1852?

Answer 32

Scott narrowly lost to Franklin Pierce in the Electoral College

Question 33

Which politician hoped to see the Continental Railroad go through the northern part of the United States and helped organize the Kansas-Nebraska Act so that the railroad could pass through them?

Answer 33

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 34

In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriett Beecher Stowe portrayed slavery as morally wrong and a threat to the __________ __________.

Answer 34

American family

Question 35

What caused the Panic of 1857?

Answer 35

changes in global trade markets

Question 36

What was the Lecompton Constitution?

Answer 36

It was a document passed by the Kansas constitutional convention making Kansas a slave state.

Question 37

The Election of 1856 revealed that the __________ states controlled the majority of the Electoral College.

Answer 37

Northern

Question 38

Why did the Sectional Crisis occur in the 1850s?

Answer 38

Because the failure of the second party system resulted in the rise of an entirely different issue (the spread of slavery to the territories)

Question 39

How many candidates were nominated to run in the 1860 election?

Answer 39

4

Question 40

After the southern delegates walked out of the Charleston convention, they met in Richmond to nominate their own Democratic candidate. Who was he?

Answer 40

John C. Breckenridge

Question 41

During the sectional crisis, Southerners feared Northerners wanted to destroy their __________-__________ system.

Answer 41

slave labor

Question 42

After Lincoln declared war against the states in the Deep South that had seceded, he called for what? [choose all that apply]

Answer 42

a blockade of southern ports

75,000 troops

Question 43

How did the federal government react to secession?

Answer 43

with indecisiveness

Question 44

After Lincoln’s declaration of war, to which state did the rest in the upper South look for leadership?

Answer 44

Virginia

Question 45

The Crittenden Compromise would have essentially extended which previous compromise?

Answer 45

The Missouri Compromise

Question 46

In two or three sentences, explain the Crittenden Compromise.

Answer 46

The Crittenden compromise guaranteed slavery in the south.

Question 47

In the early days of the Civil War, both sides saw a large response of volunteer soldiers; later on, both sides passed ______________ laws that required men to serve in the military.

Answer 47

conscription

Question 48

The North’s advantage in __________________ during the Civil War was probably its most important asset, despite the issues of corruption and low quality manufactured goods.

Answer 48

manufacturing

Question 49

Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was unprecedented, and it allowed those suspected of conspiring with the Confederacy _______________.

Answer 49

to be jailed without the benefit of a trial or without being charged

Question 50

Which of the following was NOT an example of an advantage the South had during the war?

Answer 50

It had a strong navy that made trading with foreign countries difficult for the Union.

Question 51

Which two (2) nations did the Confederate government hope would support their efforts against the Union? [choose 2]

Answer 51

France

Great Britain

Question 52

The first major land battle of the Civil War was __________.

Answer 52

Bull Run

Question 53

General Winfield Scott proposed the __________ __________, a system that called for the North to encircle and divide the Confederacy.

Answer 53

Anaconda

Question 54

The single bloodiest day in American military history occurred at the Battle of __________.

Answer 54

antietam

Question 55

When delegates from __________ walked out of the Democratic Convention in 1860, the Democrat Party officially split over the issue of slavery.

Answer 55

Alabama

Question 56

In the early years of the war, to whom was the command of Union forces offered by Winfield Scott?

Answer 56

Robert E. Lee

Question 57

Whose famous “March to the Sea” left a 250-mile strip of destruction across Georgia?

Answer 57

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 58

Which of the following individuals advocated for giving freed blacks land taken from Confederate leaders under the Confiscation Act of 1862?

Answer 58

Charles Sumner

Question 59

__________ was a Confederate extremist who shot Lincoln in the back of the head on April 14, 1865.

Answer 59

John Wilkes Booth

Question 60

Which of the following was NOT included in the Wade-Davis Bill?

State constitutional conventions had to revoke the political rights of high-ranking Confederate leaders.

A majority of white male citizens had to swear allegiance to the Union before the state could be readmitted.

Those who served in state constitutional conventions had to swear an “ironclad” oath they had never supported the Confederacy

Confederate states had to wait five years to send representatives to Congress after being readmitted to the Union.

Answer 60

Confederate states had to wait five years to send representatives to Congress after being readmitted to the Union.

Question 61

What was Andrew Johnson’s opinion of the planter elite of his native South?

Answer 61

He held them in contempt, believing they were bad for the region.