Question 1 The Anaconda Plan Proposed what? Blockade of Confederate Ports
Question 2 The Emancipation Proclamation stated what? Decreed freedom for all enslaved people in the states at war with the Union
Question 3 What is hardtack? Type of biscuit
Question 4 Capturing Vicksburg was an important objective for the North because It was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
Question 5 The Confederate commander at Vicksburg surrendered because His troops were starving
Question 6 After Lincoln fired McClellan, he gave command to a series of generals. Name the generals in order. Burnside, Hooker, Meade, Grant
Question 7 Farragut’s victory at Mobile Bay was important because why? Blockade runners could no longer use any port on the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi River
Question 8 The 13 th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited what? Slavery
Question 9 To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and what Accept that slaves were now free
Question 10 What group of people did President Johnson believe caused the Civil War? Rich planter elite
Question 11 Under the Republican’s Reconstruction plan, before former Confederate states could elect people to Congress that had to do what? Ratify the 14 th Amendment
Question 12 How did President Johnson challenge the Tenure of Office Act? Firing Secretary of War Stanton
Question 13 Why did several Republican senators join with Democrats in voting not to remove President Johnson from office? Such an act would set a dangerous precedent
Question 14 Some scalawags were owners of small farms who did not want wealthy planters to regain what? Power
Question 15 What was original the goal of the Ku Klux Klan? Drive out Union troops and regain control of the South for the Democratic Party
Question 16 Reconstruction ended when? Federal troops were removed from the South
Question 17 What caused small banks to close in 1873? Panic of 1873
Question 18 Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called for what? Reconciling with the South rather than punishing it
Question 19 The establishment of public schools was part of what? Republican reforms
Question 20 Under Johnson’s Reconstruction plan, many members of Congress voted to reject the representatives that Southern voters elected to Congress because why? They were former Confederate leaders
Question 21 In 1866 Republicans in Congress knew they could pass their policies, but they also knew that President Johnson could interfere how? Refusing to enforce their laws
Question 22 The main charge at President Johnson’s impeachment trial was that he had what? Broken the law by refusing to uphold the Tenure of Office Act
Question 23 In the election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant won several Southern states because why? Presence of Union troops in the South allowed African Americans to vote
Question 24 Some carpetbaggers came to the South to what? Take advantage of the war- torn region
Question 25 Ulysses S. Grant believed the role the President was to what? Carry out the laws
Question 26 Horace Greeley was nominated to oppose Grant’s re-election by what group? Liberal Republicans
Question 27 The election of 1876 initially resulted in no clear winner because why? Widespread election fraud
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