Study Guide
CIVIL WAR and RECONSTRUCTION
Key Terms
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Surrender at Appomattox
Court House
National Women’s Loyal
League
Robert E. Lee
Morril Land Grant
Scalawag
Alexander Stevens
Homestead Act
Sharecropper
William T. Sherman
NYC Draft Riots
Crop Lien
Andrew Johnson
Wade Davis Bill (1864)
Carpetbagger
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
Poll Tax
“Offensive-Defensive”
Assassination of Lincoln
Panic of 1873
“Scott’s Great Snake” -
Freedmen’s Bureau
Seward’s Folly
Radical Reconstruction
KKK
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Black Codes
Plessy v. Ferguson
Siege of Fort Wagner
13th Amendment
Jim Crowe Laws
Battle of Gettysburg
14th Amendment
Ulysses S. Grant’s
Gettysburg Address
15th Amendment
Administration
Battle of Antietam
Civil Rights Acts of 1866
Office of Tenure Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Compromise of 1877
Role of Women in the Civil War
Anaconda Plan
“March to the Sea”
Short Answer
What was Abraham Lincoln’s stated purpose in going to war against the south?
What were the northern and southern advantages and disadvantages during the Civil War?
Why were the casualty rates so high throughout the Civil War?
What did Lincoln hope to accomplish in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?
What 2 major events occurred on July 3-4, 1863 and why were they turning points in the war?
What was the significance of the battle between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginian (ex
Merrimack)?
What was significant about the Confederate submarine the H.L. Hunley?
What were the contributions African-Americans made during the Civil War?
What were the contributions women made during the Civil War?
What were the differences between the reconstruction plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and the Radical
Republicans?
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments say and do?
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?
What were the failures of the Reconstruction governments in the south?
What was the intention of the Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil war?
Why didn’t African-Americans achieve their full rights guaranteed by Constitutional Amendments?
Possible Essay Questions
How did the North and South go about mobilizing and strategizing for war, and what did that
mobilization and strategy reveal about the nature and character of each side? Discuss advantages and
disadvantages each side had.
In what ways did African Americans shape the course and consequences of the Civil War? Confine your
answer to the years from 1861 to 1877.
Although the Reconstruction is ultimately considered a failure, there were many successes as a result of
the attempts to rebuild the South after the Civil War. Support or refute this statement.
What was the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation? What effect did it have on the North and
on the South?
What were the major military and political turning points of the Civil War and what were their
consequences?