Civil War and Reconstruction

Which battle gave Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Gettysburg
• Antietam
• Appomattox Court House
• Vicksburg

Why did General Lee join the Confederate military?

• He was in favor of slavery.
• He felt loyalty to his native Virginia.
• He believed in the rights of states to secede.
• He had been defeated in the presidential election.

What was the significance of the First Battle of Bull Run?

• It proved that the South was weak.
• It showed that the North would win.
• It proved that a quick victory was impossible.
• It showed that the armies were unwilling to fight long battles.

Who was the Union general in the West that gained the only victories for the Union?

• Robert E. Lee
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Stonewall Jackson
• Ulysses S. Grant

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that

• slaves in U.S. territories were free.
• slaves throughout the world were free.
• slaves in Confederate states were free.
• slaves in Union slave states were free.

What is total war?

• a military strategy that includes destroying the enemy's ability and will to fight
• a military strategy that includes flanking the enemy
• a military strategy used by Robert E. Lee
• a military strategy put into effect by Southern Generals

What laws were created after the 13th Amendment to restrict African Americans in the South?

• black codes
• Jim Crow laws
• segregation bill

What system allowed for a farmer to rent land and tools from a landowner in exchange for a portion of the crops at harvest?

• sharecropping
• plantation system
• tenant farming

What group of people controlled Congress during the years after the Civil War?

• Radical Republicans
• Moderate Republicans
• Liberal Republicans

True or False: The Compromise of 1877 allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president.

• True
• False