CATEGORY 1
Why did the North attempt to capture the Mississippi River?
The MS divided the Confederacy in two.
The capture of what city ensured Lincoln's reelection in 1864?
Atlanta
During what daring campaign did Grant separate his army from his supply bases to surprise his enemy?
Vicksburg
What was the name of the group that lynched many freedmen?
Ku Klux Klan
What law was passed after the publication of The Jungle?
Pure Food and Drug Act
During what early battle in the Civil War did Grant first gain fame?
Forts Henry and Donelson
What was the capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond
After which battle was the Union army trapped in Chattanooga?
Battle of Chickamauga
After the war, Robert E. Lee
became president of Washington College
What amendment called for the direction election of senators?
Seventeenth Amendment
What was one of the South's primary advantages at the outset of the war?
better commanders
Which of the following commanders captured New Orleans?
David Farragut
In what scandal did the Credit Mobilier participate?
cheating the government regarding railroad expenses
Who was Hiram Revels?
the first black to serve in the US Congress
How did progressives try to prevent politicians from intimidating and bribing voters?
secret ballot
The Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves free
in Confederate controlled territory
The significance of the clash between the Monitor and the Merrimack was that the
age of wooden ships began to come to a close
What is meant by "waving the bloody shirt"?
blamed Democrats for the Civil War
What did the Republicans offer Southern Democrats in return for their support in choosing Rutherford B. Hayes as president?
removal of federal troops from the South
What amendment initiated a federal income tax?
the Sixteenth Amendment
What caused a major riot in New York in 1863?
conscription
What event almost brought Britain into the war?
Trent affair
What event marked the end of Reconstruction?
the removal of federal troops from the South
When did Reconstruction end?
1877
Which black leader told blacks they must improve themselves economically before they could expect political equality?
Booker T. Washington