Pottsville Area High School
AP US History
Unit Five (1844 – 1877) Study Guide
Mr. Kempsey
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The average citizen had a more vivid impression of the Civil War than previous wars
because for the first time there were:
The Union raised money to finance the Civil War by all the following means except:
In Ex parte Milligan (1866), the Supreme Court ruled that:
The Secretary of War under President Pierce who greatly strengthened the United Sates
Army and federal military installations was:
“That the Executive will, in the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation designate
the states or parts of states, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then
be in rebellion against the United States. . .“ are words found in the:
“To protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless, from the indignities, wrongs,
and outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal; to relieve the injured and
oppressed; to succor the suffering and unfortunate, and especially the widows and
orphans of Confederate soldiers.” This statement is found in the constitution of the:
“He and the vice president shall hold their offices for the term of six years. “ is a
provision of the:
Most African Americans in the post Civil War years were employed as:
The Fourteenth Amendment addressed all the following issues except:
The North, during the Civil War, had all the following advantages except:
The Copperheads were:
The strategy of the Union forces included all the following except :
Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction had in common all the following except:
Congressional Reconstruction required the ratification of all the following amendments
except the:
The Emancipation Proclamation:
The Wade-Davis Bill was:
The North and the South began to split in the middle of the 19th century over:
The South after Reconstruction:
The Republican Party platform in 1860 stood for:
Two major turning point battles of the Civil War were:
An inherent weakness of the Confederate government was its belief in:
President Johnson’s chances of carrying through Reconstruction on his own were hurt
by:
Scalawags were:
All the following states reported disputed returns in the 1876 election except:
The rapid industrialization of the North after the Civil War was due to:
The famous Civil War photographer was:
Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers after the:
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All of the following states seceded from the United States before the attack on Fort
Sumter except
All of the following border states remained in the Union during the Civil War except:
The Trent Affair caused a diplomatic crisis during the Civil war when a:
At the beginning of the Civil War, the main military objective of the North was to:
One of the greatest successes of the Freedmen’s Bureau was:
President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan was based on the assumption that a
Confederate state could reenter the Union when:
The Black Codes enacted by Southern states during reconstruction were designed to:
According to the terms of the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867:
A marked infringement of the Monroe Doctrine in the 1860s was the:
Factors which led to Congressional Reconstruction include:
The Confederacy obtained money from each of the following sources except:
In Ex parte Merryman (1861), the Supreme Court ruled that:
Many Civil War battles were named by:
In 1865, the Union troops made their final push against Richmond by capturing:
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in
the states where it exists.” These words were spoken by:
“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot
hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.” These words were spoken
at:
The Crittenden Compromise was not accepted because:
The statements in the Emancipation Proclamation were designed to do all the following
except:
Many of the working class people in the North were not enthusiastic about freeing the
slaves because they would:
In 1867, Congress became the most powerful branch of government by doing all the
following except:
All of the following were advantages held by the Confederacy at the beginning of the
Civil War except:
Abraham Lincoln’s first call for volunteers:
“. . . feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate
for the loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have
determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared
them to their countrymen.” These farewell words were spoken by
All of the following acts were passed by Congress during the Civil War except the:
In the 1860 election: