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