History Quiz #3 Reconstruction

Antietam

bloodiest single-day battle in the Civil War

Stephen Douglas

candidate for the Senate in 1860; debated with Lincoln

What were blacks NOT allowed to do according to the codes?

1. Carry weapons 2. Vote 3. Meet in groups with other blacks 4. Hold public office

Thirteenth Amendment

abolished slavery

The leading occupation during the 1840s and 1850s was?

agriculture

General Lee surrendered to General Grant at _________, Virginia.

Appomattox Court House

New Orleans was captured by?

David Farragut

Who replaced Abraham Lincoln as president after his assassination?

Johnson

General George McClellan

Lincoln's Democratic opponent in the election of 1864

The act that divided the South into five military districts was the?

Reconstruction Act

Charles Sumner

Republican Radical who was savagely beaten

The first state to secede from the Union was?

South Carolina

The first Southern state to approve the Fourteenth Amendment and be readmitted to the Union was?

Tennessee

The act that prohibited the President from removing federal officials previously approved by the Senate was the?

Tenure of Office Act

TRUE OR FALSE: The Civil War began in 1861 and ended in 1865.

True

Which bill required the majority of the electorate to take an oath before a state could be readmitted to the Union?

Wade-Davis Bill

Robert E. Lee

commander of the Confederate forces

Ulysses S. Grant

commander of the Union forces

The most important crop raised in the South was?

cotton

Andrew Johnson

escaped impeachment by one vote

Freedmen's Bureau

established schools and helped freed slaves

Fort Sumter

first naval battle of the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

friend of the South and assassination victim

"Stonewall" Jackson

killed by one of his own men

William T. Sherman

led a destructive march across the South

P.G.T. Beauregard

led the attack on Fort Sumter

Fourteenth Amendment

made freedmen U.S. citizens and granted them the right to vote

Which minority wielded the greatest political power in its region in the period before the Civil War?

planters in the South

Jefferson Davis

president of the Confederacy

John Brown

radical abolitionist who was hanged after an arsenal raid

Compromise of 1877

removed federal troops from the South

Tenure of Office Act

violated by President Johnson

Gettysburg

where Lincoln dedicated a cemetery