Civil War & CH 22 Quiz

Question 1

Confederate President

Answer 1

President Jefferson Davis

Question 2

Nickname of Confederate Soliders

Answer 2

Johnny Rebs

Question 3

Commander of Confederate military forces

Answer 3

General Robert E. Lee

Question 4

Union President

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln

Question 5

Commander of Union military forces

Answer 5

General Ulysses S. Grant

Question 6

Nickname of Union Soldier

Answer 6

Yankees

Question 7

Initial Goal of the Civil War

Answer 7

Unite the country

Question 8

2nd goal of the Civil War

Answer 8

abolish slavery

Question 9

People who were freed from slavery.

Answer 9

Freedmen

Question 10

Poor Tennessean who became President after Lincoln was assassinated. He was unpolished, honest, forceful, was an advocate for states rights, and was considered a misfit

Answer 10

President Andrew Johnson

Question 11

plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.

Answer 11

Andrew Johnson’s Plan

Question 12

Passed by congressional Republicans in response to Abraham Lincoln’s “10% plan” and created stronger rules to prevent slavery from returning and was vetoed by Lincoln.

Answer 12

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 13

Dire penalities on blacks who “jumped” labor contracts, and created a series of events like not being able to vote, serve on a jury, strict labor contracts, sharecropping, which eventually led to unpaid labor once again.

Answer 13

Black Codes

Question 14

Offered government incentives to assist “men of talent, men of character, men who are willing to invest” in developing the nation’s first transcontinental rail line.

Answer 14

Pacific Railroad Act

Question 15

Granted blacks the privilege of American citizenship and struck at the Black Codes.

Answer 15

Civil Rights Bill

Question 16

provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Answer 16

13th Amendment

Question 17

ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”

Answer 17

14th Amendment