Question 1

Final straw that led South Carolina to secede

Accepted Answer

Election of 1860

Answer

the Compromise of 1850

Answer

the Wilmot Proviso

Answer

Turner's Rebellion

Question 2

Lincoln's goal

Accepted Answer

Preserve the Union (as in the United States)

Answer

end racism in the US

Answer

humiliate the South

Answer

end slavery in the North

Question 3

Advantages the Union had in the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Larger population, more industry and railroads

Answer

More experienced generals, more guns

Answer

"home field advantage"

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fighting for their way of life

Question 4

Advantages the Confederacy had in the Civil War

Accepted Answer

more experienced generals, most battles fought in the South

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bigger Navy

Answer

wealthier government

Answer

bigger population

Question 5

writ of habeas corpus

Accepted Answer

Lincoln suspended this to try to win the war

Answer

requires a warrant

Answer

freed all slaves in the Confederacy

Answer

protected by 2nd Amendment

Question 6

Bloodiest single day

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Answer

Chancellorsville

Answer

Gettysburg

Answer

Vicksburg

Question 7

Bloodiest battle

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Answer

Atlanta

Answer

Vicksburg

Answer

Antietam

Question 8

Showed Lincoln that ending slavery was necessary

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Answer

"Bleeding Kansas"

Answer

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer

13th Amendment

Question 9

First time the Confederacy tried to invade the North

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Answer

Atlanta

Answer

Gettysburg

Answer

Vicksburg

Question 10

Split the Confederacy in half

Accepted Answer

Vicksburg

Answer

Gettysburg

Answer

Appomattox

Answer

the Mississippi River

Question 11

If Stonewall Jackson had been there, the Confederacy might have won the battle AND war

Accepted Answer

Gettysbug

Answer

Atlanta

Answer

Antietam

Answer

Vicksburg

Question 12

Union won because they held the higher ground

Accepted Answer

Atlanta

Answer

Vicksburg

Answer

Antietam

Answer

Appomattox

Question 13

Last Confederate attempt to invade the North

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Answer

Antietam

Answer

Vicksburg

Answer

Appomattox

Question 14

Union won because they held the higher ground

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Answer

Vicksburg

Answer

Appomattox

Answer

Antietam

Question 15

Confederate loss that occurred the day after the Confederate loss at Gettysburg

Accepted Answer

Vicksburg

Answer

Gettysbug

Answer

Antietam

Answer

Appomattox

Question 16

Lincoln explained that soldiers would not have died in vain because the United States would survive

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg Address

Answer

Second Inaugural Address

Answer

Farewell Address

Answer

writ of habeas corpus

Question 17

"With malice toward none and charity for all"

Accepted Answer

Second Inaugural Address

Answer

Gettysbug Address

Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer

13th Amendment

Question 18

Issued January 1, 1863 and freed slaves in the Confederacy

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer

Second Inaugural Address

Answer

14th Amendment

Answer

13th Amendment

Question 19

Where Lee surrendered to Grant

Accepted Answer

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer

Antietam

Answer

Chancellorsville

Answer

Vicksburg

Question 20

Began after the Union victory at Atlanta

Accepted Answer

March to the Sea

Answer

Emancipation

Answer

Siege at Vicksburg

Answer

secession

Question 21

Union general known for March to the Sea

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

Answer

Robert E. Lee

Answer

Stonewall Jackson

Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 22

Union general accused of being a butcher due to his use of total war

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer

Stonewall Jackson

Answer

Robert E. Lee

Answer

William T. Sherman

Question 23

If he had been at Gettysburg, the South might have won the battle AND the war

Accepted Answer

Stonewall Jackson

Answer

Andrew Johnson

Answer

Andrew Jackson

Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 24

Confederate general who owned slaves, despite widely believed stories that he was anti-slavery

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Answer

Stonewall Jackson

Answer

Cornwallis

Answer

Grant

Question 25

President of the Confederate States of America

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Answer

Button Gwinnett

Answer

Andrew Johnson

Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 26

Lincoln's plan

Accepted Answer

"Ten Percent Plan"

Answer

Radical Reconstruction

Answer

Moderate Reconstruction

Answer

Presidential Reconstruction

Question 27

Andrew Johnson's plan

Accepted Answer

Presidential Reconstruction

Answer

Military Reconstruction

Answer

Radical Reconstruction

Answer

Ten Percent Plan

Question 28

The harsh plan that divided the south into military districts

Accepted Answer

Radical Reconstruction

Answer

Military Reconstruction

Answer

Moderate Reconstruction

Answer

Presidential Reconstruction

Question 29

Impeachment is when the President is...

Accepted Answer

put on trial

Answer

removed from office

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found guilty

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accused of wrongdoing

Question 30

Andrew Johnson was impeached because

Accepted Answer

he vetoed Radical Republican legislation to help freed slaved and undermined Reconstruction by firing people enforcing it

Answer

He stole millions from the US Treasury

Answer

He refused to follow the guidelines left by Lincoln for him

Answer

He was set up by Radical Republicans

Question 31

Officially ended Reconstruction

Accepted Answer

the Compromise of 1877

Answer

the Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer

the 16th Amendment

Answer

the election of 1876

Question 32

Reconstruction Amendment(s)

Accepted Answer

13th, 14th, 15th

Answer

14th, 15th, 17th

Answer

12th, 13th

Answer

16th

Question 33

Undermined Northern interest in Reconstruction

Accepted Answer

scandals of Grant's presidency, racism

Answer

complete collapse of Northern industry

Answer

complete equality for black Americans

Answer

sudden aggression from Europe

Question 34

Southern cause for the failure of Reconstruction

Accepted Answer

the KKK

Answer

scalawags

Answer

Radical Republicans

Answer

carpetbaggers

Question 35

Andrew Johnson's impeachment ended with

Accepted Answer

his acquittal

Answer

trick question- he wasn't impeached

Answer

removal from office

Answer

a guilty verdict

Question 36

Reasons that the 15th Amendment wasn't really used for a century

Accepted Answer

Literacy tests, Poll taxes, grandfather clause

Answer

It wasn't ratified by enough states until years later

Answer

the KKK encouraged its use

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people chose not to use that right

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