U.S. History Civil War/Reconstruction Test Review

This test on the Civil War (chapter 14) and Reconstruction (chapter 15)

Test date:  Monday, March 4th

Civil War:

The American Civil War:

• Causes of the war
• Napoleonic influence
• Major technological changes and role of technology in the war
• Comparisons between the North and the South
• Strategies and tactics of each side
• Major commanders for each side
• The details and significance of the following battles and campaigns:
• First Bull Run, The Valley Campaign, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, the Wilderness Campaign, the marches of Sherman and Sheridan
• The Civil War as “proto-total war”—role of resources and civilians

Reconstruction:

• Lincoln's outline for Reconstruction and the impact of his assassination
• Presidential Reconstruction under President Johnson
• Aspects of Johnson's reconstruction
• Congress and Presidential Reconstruction
• The Freedman's Bureau
• The Civil Rights Act
• The 14th Amendment
• The Election of 1866
• The role and experience of Freedmen during Reconsruction
• Radical Reconstruction
• Congressional goals of Reconcstruction
• The Reconsrtruction Act of 1867
• The Tenure of Office Act and the Impmeachment of Johnson
• The Election of 1868 and President Grant
• The 15th Amendment
• Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
• Sharecropping
• The End of Reconstruction
• Southern Resistance and the Ku Klux Klan
• Federal Response to the KKK
• The Grant administration and chagning attitudes towards Reconstruction
• The Elections of 1872 and 1877
• The Legacy of Reconstrution

Format:  15 multiple choice (3 pts each), 45 points; 2 essay questions (choose 1); 55 points.