Quiz 23, Chapter 14, pp. 265-275

Question 1

In what year did the Civil War come to an end?

Answer 1

1865

Question 2

Which Constitutional amendment outlawed slavery?

Answer 2

Thirteenth

Question 3

Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant?

Answer 3

Appomattox Court House

Question 4

Who was known as the ‘‘Angel of the Battlefield’’ for her care of wounded soldiers both during and after the Civil War?

Answer 4

Clara Barton

Question 5

Name the act which divided the former Confederacy into five military districts and appointed military officers to govern them.

Answer 5

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Question 6

Why was First Lady Lucy Hayes called ‘‘Lemonade Lucy’’?

Answer 6

She refused to serve alcoholic beverages in the White House.

Question 7

Name the first President to be impeached.

Answer 7

Andrew Johnson

Question 8

Who started Tuskegee Institute, the most innovative educational institution for black Americans?

Answer 8

Booker T. Washing-a-ton

Question 9

What was the title of Booker T. Washing-a-ton’s autobiography?

Answer 9

Up from Slavery

Question 10

What organization was set up to provide relief for those in the South who had lost everything in the war?

Answer 10

Freedman’s Bureau