Civil War and Reconstruction Mandatory Study Guide
4/3/2017 last updated
What to expect? There are 25 multiple choice questions that cover the content from the 1850s (Chapter 10) through the Civil War (Chapter 11). Then there is a choice (pick one of three) for a short QeD response which covers the Reconstruction period. (Chapter 12) The test will be worth a total of 35 exam points.
1. What is covered by the multiple choice? (The following list should help. Write an ID for 15 of these. Please number them.)
- Antietam
- Border Ruffians
- Abolitionists
- Underground Railroad
- Copperheads
- Conscription
- total war (in the Civil War)
- secession of South Carolina
- Emancipation Proclamation (especially its international consequences)
- Anaconda Plan
- The Scouting Report (North vs. South)
- Rifling (and its impact on war tactics)
- the weird Election of 1860
- Dred Scott
- Gen. Robert E. Lee
- Gen. George B. McClellan
- Stephen A. Douglas
- Frederick Douglass
- John Brown
2. What is covered by the short response? (The following list should help. Sketch out a 3 paragraph outline (Thesis with 2 Evidence) to a response keeping in mind and mentioning terms from the #3 list below.)
- Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction Plans
- Effect of Reconstruction (and the end of it) on African Americans in the South
- National Politics behind Reconstruction
3. Things that would be very smart to mention in QeD responses (if appropriate) because being specific is important?
- Radical Republicans (and maybe one or two of their names)
- President Andrew Johnson
- Election of 1868 (the one with the KKK)
- Election of 1876 (the one that ended Reconstruction)
- Tenant farming
- Black Suffrage
- The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the Constitution
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Carpetbaggers
- White League and KKK
- President Ulysses S. Grant
- Compromise of 1877