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 13 th 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 15 th 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 15 th 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 14 th 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 13 th Amendment, what happened to many former slaves?