Unit 4: Civil War & Reconstruction Test Review

According to the graph

• Confederate soldiers won at Gettysburg.

• Union Soldiers outnumbered Confederate Soldiers.

• Union Soldiers were older than Confederate Soldiers.

• 100,000 Union Soldiers died at the Battle of Appomattox.

Following the Civil War, the Radical Republicans in Congress

• allowed the South to pass the Black Codes.

• pardoned southern leaders for Civil War actions.

• hoped to reunite the country as quickly as possible.

• regarded the southern states as conquered territory.

In American history, the term "Reconstruction" refers to

• problems associated with the transformation to an industrial economy.

• the admission of Western territories to the U.S. as either Free or Slave states.

• federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of former slaves.

• the establishment of a new system of agriculture in the western states and territories based on industrial machinery.

A major area of disagreement between Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans was that

• Lincoln wanted to see the Democratic Party restored to power as quickly as possible.

• Lincoln wanted the South to be treated as conquered territory for as long as possible.

• the Radicals saw Lincoln as a Civil War enthusiast and the cause of the entire Civil War.

• Lincoln felt that Reconstruction was primarily the pardoning of individuals, a presidential power.

What was the effect of the use of literacy tests throughout the South after the U.S. Civil War?

• women were denied the right to vote

• an increase in voter turnout by African Americans

• the poor and African Americans not being allowed to vote

• an increase in the power of the Republican Party in the South

The Confederate army received a terrible and perhaps mortal blow to its leadership with the accidental death of what general in 1863?

• Robert E. Lee

• J.E.B. Stuart

• George Pickett

• Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was important to the Union war effort because

• it placed the Mississippi River under Union control.

• it convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy.

• important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces.

• Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender his forces as a direct result of Sherman's victory.

Which statement BEST describes the essence of this chart?

• Despite the many gains since the Civil War, blacks in the Reconstruction Era still struggled to find political participation.

• Because no Constitutional Amendments had been passed blacks could not have any political power in the South.

• Blacks were proportionally represented in all Southern states at the Constitutional Convention.

• The Freedman's Bureau had been successful in gaining land and education for former slaves.

Which statement MOST ACCURATELY describes the political situation of African Americans in the period of Reconstruction?

• African Americans still had not won the right to vote by 1877

• African Americans had political rights in the North, not the South.

• African Americans were represented in state assemblies, but not on the national level.

• African Americans won Congressional and state legislative representation from Southern states.

Presidential Reconstruction following the American Civil War can BEST be described as

• a plan to fix the damage to the White House caused by the Civil War.

• a desire to rebuild the southern states quickly to help control the economy.

• a desire to rebuild the country quickly and without ill feelings following the war.

• a desire to punish those southerners responsible for causing and/or prolonging the war.