Chapter 15 Questions

1. Just before his inauguration what was Lincoln's primary interested?
2. Whom did Lincoln appoint Secretary of State?
3. Who did Lincoln appoint as Treasury Secretary?
4. What fort did the Confederates first attack?
5. What caused the states of Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee to secede?
6. Which additional southern states seceded soon after the surrender of Fort Sumter?
7. How did Lincoln regard secession?
8. What was the population of the North during the Civil War?
9. What was the population of the South, including slaves, during the Civil War?
10. What percent of the nation's firearms did the North produce?
11. What advantages did the South possess at the beginning of the Civil War? What advantages did the Union possess at the beginning of the Civil War?
12. By mid 1861, about how many troops did the Confederacy have?
13. Where was the first major battle of the Civil War fought in July, 1861?
14. What was the Battle of Manassas also known as? Why do Civil War battles often have two names?
15. At The Battle of Manassas which general received the nickname "Stonewall." What naval program did Lincoln initiate after this battle?
16. After Bull Run, who did Lincoln appoint to command a new federal army?
17. To help cover the cost of the Civil War the federal government?
18. What did the federal government do to finance the Civil War?
19. Who were the Radical Republicans? Who was the most prominent Radical Senator?
20. What did Radical Republicans such as Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens advocate?
21. What did the so-called Peace Democrats advocate? Who were the "Copperheads?"
22. Who advocated "The Constitution as it is; the Union as it was; the Negroes where they are."
23. What is a writ of habeas corpus?
24. Who was the Congressman that Lincoln ordered banished to the Confederacy?
25. What did the Confederate Congress pass in 1862?
26. After the Battle of Bull Run what was the Confederacy's primary strategy?
27. What turned out to be the Confederacy's most vexing problem?
28. What was the Confederacy's primary revenue raising method?
29. Why did the Confederacy expect Great Britain, or the other great powers of Europe, to break the southern blockade?
30. How did Great Britain's support of the Confederacy?
31. During the Civil War how were relations between the United States and Great Britain?
32. What happened at the Battle of Glorieta Pass? Where was it fought?
33. Where was the Battle of Shiloh fought? What was especially significant about the Battle of Shiloh?
34. At which battle was General McClellan's advance on Richmond stopped, causing him to fall back?
35. What change of command happened during the battle of Seven Pines?
36. At which battle, early in the war, was Robert E. Lee forced to withdraw his army and regroup?
37. What happened to General McClellan after Antietam?
38. What was Lee's purpose in crossing the Potomac in 1863 and invading the North?
39. Why did Lincoln continue enforce the Fugitive Slave Act at the beginning of the war?
40. What was the Confiscation Act and how was it different from the Emancipation Proclamation?
41. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued? What was its purpose?
42. How was the Emancipation Proclamation regarded in the South? How was it regarded in the North?
43. What happened after the Conscription Act was passed?
44. What were the "loop holes" in the Conscription Act?
45. What was The Anglo-African?
46. How did the Emancipation Proclamation change recruitment policy?
47. What was the Bureau of Colored Troops?
48. What proportion of Union troops were African-American? How many served?
49. After Antietam, who did Lincoln name to replace George McClellan?
50. What happened at the Battle of Chancellorsville?
51. What happened during the Battle of Gettysburg?
52. When and how did Ulysses S. Grant assume command?
53. What happened as a result of the fall of Vicksburg?
54. Which action did Lincoln take soon after the Battle of Chattanooga?
55. What was the Homestead Act?
56. What was the purpose of passing the Pacific Railway Act?
57. What was the primary purpose of passing the National Banking Act?
58. Who was the first woman doctor in the United States? What did she organize?
59. What remarkable difference did Grant display between himself and his predecessors such as McClellan or Meade?
60. Which city became encircled by trenches?"
61. What was General William Tecumseh Sherman's march to the sea?
62. Who did Lincoln choose as his running mate in 1864?
63. What philosophy did General Sherman adopt in his infamous "march?"
64. When did Sherman's troops reach Atlanta?
65. Where did General Grant and General Lee meet to negotiate Lee's surrender.
66. How many lives were lost in the Civil War?


Chapter 16 Questions


1. Who was the only Confederate executed for war crimes? Why is that significant?
2. When did the process for readmission to the Union begin?
3. When did Lincoln issue a proclamation that permitted Southerners to begin to reinstate themselves as U.S. citizens again?
4. Who believed that the southern states had "committed suicide" and should be treated like "conquered provinces?" What did this mean?
5. What were the elements of the "Ten Percent Plan?" Who's plan was this?
6. What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
7. Who criticized Andrew Johnson? Who praised Andrew Johnson?
8. Who were the Radical Republicans? Who was buried in a black cemetery?
9. Who said, "Treason must be made infamous?"
10. What did "ultra" Radicals want after the Civil War?
11. When was the Freedmen's Bureau created? What did it do?
12. What was the Thirteenth Amendment? How did it effect the three-fifths compromise?
13. What were the Black Codes enacted after the Civil War?
14. What bill was passed by the Congress and overrode Johnson's veto?
15. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
16. Why did Radical Republicans have problems with passing their plans?
17. Which President probably hated the southern aristocracy?
18. When was the 14th Amendment submitted to the states?
19. Why was the 14th Amendment such a "milestone" in the context of the times?
20. What was the primary effect of the first Reconstruction Act?
21. Which was the first former confederate state to be re-admitted to he Union?
22. When was the Tenure of Office Act passed? What was the purpose of this act?
23. Who was directly affected and nearly lost office because of "violating" the Tenure of Office Act?
24. When was Lincoln's successor impeached?
25. Who was nominated for the Democratic ticket in 1868?
26. When was the 15th Amendment ratified?
27. If the Fourteenth Amendment was generally successful in enabling black Southerners to vote, why did the Republicans offer the Fifteenth Amendment?
28. Which organization dissolved because of the 15th Amendment?
29. Who was elected President in 1868?
30. Who were carpetbaggers?
31. Who was John Alcorn?
32. Who were the "Scalawags?" What was typical about "scalawags?"
33. What was the Freedmen's Bureau? What did it do?
34. How many acres should have been given to each former slave according to Thaddeus Stevens' plan?
35. How many acres of federal land was made available to the former slaves by Congress?
36. What bill allowed land to be given to the former slaves?
37. What did many Southern planters believed would happen if the former slaves became independent farmers?
38. After the Civil War how did many plantation owners try to organize the new freedmen?
39. What happened to the agricultural system in the South after the Civil War?
40. What was primarily crippling the agricultural system of the South after the Civil War?
41. About how much of the Southern farmland was owned by blacks by 1880?
42. Which crops was emphasized by the crop-lien system as "readily marketable?"
43. Which crop was "king" of the southern economy by the 1870s?
44. What triggered a rise in demand for tobacco? Where did tobacco farming flourish after the Civil War?
45. What Southern Republican group was organized to control the black vote? What was the Union League of America?
46. What groups were organized as a secret terrorist society to check the power of black voters and the Union League of America?
47. Where was the Ku Klux Klan formed? How did Congress strike the Ku Klux Klan?
48. Why was the Grant administration was disgraced by scandals? What was the worst scandal of the Grant Presidency scandals?
49. Who were the Liberal Republicans?
50. What man did two political parties nominate for President in the 1872 election?
51. Who was selected as President in 1876?
52. What did the Democrats capture in 1874?
53. What was the most widely discussed issue of the 1876 presidential campaign?
54. Who would probably won the1876 presidential election if the returns had been fairly counted?
55. What role did Joseph P. Bradley have in the1876 presidential election?
56. What was the basis for and the results of the Compromise of 1877? Who really won and who really lost?