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Unit 2 Study Guide – Civil War and Reconstruction
1. What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan during the Civil War?
2. What goal did President Lincoln hold throughout the Civil War?
3. What was did the 14th Amendment do for African Americans?
4. How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the course of the Civil War?
5. According to this 19th century illustration, how did whites plan to make life
for African Americans “worse than slavery”?
6. What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
7. What was the event that was the spark that led to the Civil War?
8. With the statement “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” President
Lincoln directly addressed what issue?
9. What was Lincoln personal feeling about slavery? What did he feel was his
public duty as president regarding slavery?
10. Which aspect of the draft during the Civil War, also known as the Enrollment
Act, incited violent protests by some residents of New York City?
11. What term was applied by Southerners to characterize white Southern
Republicans during the Reconstruction?
12. Which group demanded total equality, voting rights, land, and education for
former slaves?
13. What is an enduring achievement of Reconstruction?
14. What major advantage did the Confederacy possess at the outset of the Civil
War?
15. Of the Reconstruction plans proposed at the end of the Civil War, who
advocated for the plan considered to be the most lenient?
16. How did the presidential election of 1876 affect the status of African
Americans in the South?
17. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
18. What were the Black Codes?
19. An important provision of the Radical Republicans’ Military Reconstruction
Act of 1867 was that it put the South under military
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20. The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to prevent
African Americans from doing what?
21. As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to
reverse Reconstruction era ___________________.
22. What was the verdict in President Johnson’s impeachment trial?
23. In the election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant won several Southern states,
because the presence of Union troops in the South allowed
________________________ to vote.
24. By the mid-1870s, many Americans were tired of Reconstruction partly
because Reconstruction legislatures required them to pay to many
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