Unit 6.1 Civil War & Reconstruction Review

Which of the following battles was the first attempt by the Confederacy to invade the North, resulting in the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Attack at Fort Sumter

Which battle that took place in the South was significant for giving the Union control of the Mississippi River along with dividing the South into two?

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Saratoga

Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels?

• The man who wrote the 14th Amendment.

• The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

• The man who wrote the 13th Amendment ending slavery.

• The First African American to govern a southern state.

Which of the following people would agree that slavery must be abolished because it is a dividing issue in the nation, and held the belief that southern secession was illegal?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglass

• Robert E. Lee

Which Union general was appointed by President Lincoln to become the Union commander of the Army of the Potomac where he later defeated the Confederate Army.

• Stonewall Jackson

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• George McClellan

This system trapped African American American into an endless cycle of debt where a southern landowner offered a formerly enslaved tenant land and resources to farm in return for a share of the year's crops. These crops would then be sold to pay back the landowner for using their resources.

• Poll taxes

• Sharecropping

• Black codes

• Jim Crowe laws

Which of the following was the first battle that began the Civil War where the Confederate Army attacked a Union base in South Carolina?

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Bombardment of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Vicksburg

How were the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg similar?

• The South won major victories in these battles.

• They were the final battles of the Civil War

• Both were fought in Union territory

• Battles gave the Union full control of the Mississippi River

This amendment ensured African Americans the right to vote by prohibiting the denial of voting rights on the basis of race or color in the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

-Higher population
-More railroads
-More factories to manufacture weapons and resources
-Larger navy

The descriptions above refer to the advantages of which side?

• Union Army (North)

• Confederate Army (South)

• British Army

• French Army