Strategy of the Civil War
Battles of the Civil War
President Lincoln
Reconstruction Actions
Southern Response to Reconstruction
100
What was one advantage the north had over the south at the beginning of the Civil War?
A. More public support for war
B. More people than south
C. Home field advantage
D. Better military leadership
B. More people than south
100
What was significant about the Battle of Fort Sumter?
A. It was the first Union victory in the Civil War
B. It was the final battle of the Civil War
C. It proved that the Union would win the war quickly
D. It was the first battle of the Civil War
D. It was the first battle of the Civil War
100
Which of the following best describes Lincoln's goal at the beginning of the Civil War?
A. Keeping the union together
B. Ending slavery
C. Punishing the southern slaveowners
D. Securing voting rights for African-Americans
A. Keeping the union together
100
How did Radical Republicans respond to Andrew Johnson's presidency?
A. They created several compromises
B. They caused several southern states to secede again
C. They overrode his vetoes and impeached him
D. They resigned in protest to force change
C. They overrode his vetoes and impeached him
100
Created in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau aided African Americans by
providing food and medical care, helping with resettlement, ensuring justice
with contracts and in courts, managing abandoned and confiscated property,
regulating labor, and establishing schools. The Freedmen’s Bureau stopped
its work in 1872.
What best explains the reason why the Freedmen’s Bureau was established?
to organize African Americans into a national political party
to encourage African Americans from the South to get jobs in the North
to segregate African Americans through separate but equal opportunities
to help African Americans in the South in making the change from slavery
to help African Americans in the South in making the change from slavery
200
What important advantage allowed the Union to defeat the Confederacy during the Civil War?
A. A new alliance with the British
B. Better military leadership
C. Better ability to produce war materials
D. More battles fought in the northern states
C. Better ability to produce war materials
200
At which battle did General Ulysses S. Grant succeed in "cutting the Confederacy in half" by controlling the Mississippi River?
A. First Battle of Bull Run
B. Battle of Vicksburg
C. Battle of Gettysburg
D. Battle of Antietam
B. Battle of Vicksburg
200
Which action by President Lincoln contributed to the formation of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
A. Gettysburg Address
B. Passage of the 13th Amendment
C. Emancipation Proclamation
D. 14th Amendment
C. Emancipation Proclamation
200
Which of the following amendments ended slavery in the United States?
A. 12th
B. 13th
C. 14th
D. 15th
B. 13th
200
What is this cartoon referring to?
A. End of the Civil War
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Election of 1876
D. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
C. Election of 1876
300
What was the Union strategy in the Civil War? 
A. Drag out the war to force a Confederate surrender
B. Invade all major Confederate cities (Richmond, Charleston, etc.) immediately
C. Use British allies to circle British ships around the Confederacy
D. To surround the Confederacy's ports and waterways
D. To surround the Confederacy's ports and waterways
300
What was, to this day, the bloodiest day in American history and also gave President Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
A. Battle of Antietam
B. Battle of Gettysburg
C. Battle of Chancellorsville
D. Battle of Appomattox Court House
A. Battle of Antietam
300
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before
us . . . that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from
the earth.
—Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863
What outcome did Abraham Lincoln believe would accomplish the goal mentioned in this excerpt?
A new Constitution would be written.
The Union would be preserved without slavery.
The government would give more power to the states.
New states would replace those lost to the Confederacy.
The Union would be preserved without slavery.
300
The method of force which hides itself in secrecy is a method as old as humanity. The kind of thing that men are afraid or ashamed to do openly, and by day, they accomplish secretly, masked, and at night. The method has certain advantages. It uses fear to cast out fear; it dares things at which open method hesitates; it may with a certain impunity attack the high and the low; it need hesitate at no outrage of maiming or murder; it shields itself in the mob mind and then throws over all a veil of darkness which becomes glamor. It attracts people who otherwise could not be reached. It harnesses the mob…. [The mob is made of] normal human beings, and they [as] human beings at heart are desperately afraid of something. Of what? Of many things, but usually of losing their jobs, being declassed, degraded, or disgraced; of losing their hopes, their savings, their plans for children; of the actual pangs of hunger, of dirt, of crime. And of all this, most [pervasive] in modern industrial society is that fear of unemployment.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois referring to in this excerpt?
A. Exodusters
B. Radical Republicans
C. Ku Klux Klan
D. Southern Democrats
C. Ku Klux Klan
400
-Born in Virginia in 1807
-Commanded Northern Army of Virginia and won Second Battle of Bull Run
-Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia in 1865
Who is this describing?
A. Ulysses S. Grant
B. Robert E. Lee
C. Stonewall Jackson
D. George McClellan
B. Robert E. Lee
400
Which battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War as the Union deterred the Confederate forces toward Washington, D.C.?
A. Battle of Gettysburg
B. Battle of Antietam
C. Battle of Chancellorsville
D. Battle of Bull Run
A. Battle of Gettysburg
400
This quote by President Lincoln indicates that he supported which idea about the Reconstruction of the South?
Which best describes Lincoln's approach toward Reconstruction?
A. Punish the south
B. Make the slaveowners pay
C. Allow southern states to secede
D. Forgive and forget
D. Forgive and forget
400
Which amendment contributed to this image above?
A. 12th
B. 13th
C. 14th
D. 15th
D. 15th
400
What impact did these laws have on the south following the Civil War?
A. They gave new rights to free slaves
B. They created a new social hierarchy structure
C. They went back to their old social hierarchy system
D. They encouraged newly freed slaves to be independent
C. They went back to their old social hierarchy system
500
Which of the following best describes William Tecumseh Sherman's strategy in the Atlanta Campaign (March to the Sea)?
A. Total War
B. Trench Warfare
C. Guerilla Warfare
D. Siege Warfare
A. Total War
500
What was the first major battle of the Civil War and showed the Civil War would be longer than expected?
A. Battle of Antietam
B. First Battle of Bull Run
C. Battle of Chancellorsville
D. Battle of Spotsylvania
B. First Battle of Bull Run
500
Which of the following ideas is most supported by Lincoln's quote above?
A. The Confederacy had stronger military leadership than the Union
B. President Lincoln's number one priority at the beginning of the war was to keep the nation unified
C. President Lincoln was determined to punish the south for seceding from the union
D. President Lincoln was always focused on abolishing slavery during the Civil War
B. President Lincoln's number one priority at the beginning of the war was to keep the nation unified
500
Use the list below to answer the question that follows.
Legislation of the
Radical Reconstruction Congress
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Reconstruction Act of 1867
• Habeas Corpus Act of 1867
• Fourteenth Amendment
What was the main purpose of this legislation?
to make it easy for former states of the Confederacy to rejoin the Union
to ensure that former states of the Confederacy protected rights of all citizens
to pass measures that would satisfy Southern demands for stronger states’ rights
to weaken Southern influence by accepting some western territories as new states
to ensure that former states of the Confederacy protected rights of all citizens
500
Which Supreme Court upheld segregation during Reconstruction?
A. Dred Scott v. Sandford
B. Boynton v. Virginia
C. Plessy v. Ferguson
D. Worcester v. Georgia
C. Plessy v. Ferguson