Lesson 2J.2.1

2J.2.1 Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 20

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Lesson 2J.2.1, Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877: 20 multiple choice questions for the AQA History (7042), Unit 20: 2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Which proclamation issued by Lincoln on 1 January 1863 declared enslaved people in rebel-held areas to be free?

    • The Gettysburg Address
    • The Emancipation Proclamation
    • The Homestead Proclamation
    • The Reconstruction Acts

  2. Which battle in July 1863 is generally seen as the major turning point in the Eastern theatre?

    • Gettysburg
    • Antietam
    • Chancellorsville
    • First Bull Run

  3. Which Mississippi River city, captured by Grant in July 1863, gave the Union control of the river?

    • Chattanooga
    • Memphis
    • New Orleans
    • Vicksburg

  4. Which city did Sherman capture in December 1864 during his March to the Sea?

    • Charleston
    • Richmond
    • Savannah
    • Atlanta

  5. Where did Robert E. Lee surrender the Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865?

    • Appomattox Court House
    • Richmond
    • Gettysburg
    • Bentonville

  6. Which amendment, ratified in December 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States?

    • The Fourth Amendment
    • The Eleventh Amendment
    • The Thirteenth Amendment
    • The Twelfth Amendment

  7. Which white supremacist secret society was founded in Tennessee in 1866 to oppose Reconstruction?

    • Red Shirts
    • Ku Klux Klan
    • White League
    • Know Nothings

  8. Which amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalised in the United States?

    • The Fifteenth Amendment
    • The Fourteenth Amendment
    • The Thirteenth Amendment
    • The Nineteenth Amendment

  9. Which 1870 amendment prohibited the denial of the right to vote on grounds of race?

    • The Fifteenth Amendment
    • The Sixteenth Amendment
    • The Nineteenth Amendment
    • The Thirteenth Amendment

  10. Which president was impeached by the House in 1868 and acquitted in the Senate by a single vote?

    • Ulysses Grant
    • Rutherford Hayes
    • Andrew Johnson
    • Abraham Lincoln

  11. Which 1867 acts divided former Confederate states into five military districts governed by Union generals?

    • Civil Rights Acts
    • Force Acts
    • Reconstruction Acts
    • Black Codes

  12. Which 1867 US law triggered President Andrew Johnson's impeachment?

    • Tenure of Office Act
    • Reconstruction Act
    • Kansas-Nebraska Act
    • Civil Rights Act

  13. Which Radical Republican leader in Congress pushed for the Fourteenth Amendment and harsh terms for the South?

    • Charles Sumner
    • Lyman Trumbull
    • William Seward
    • Thaddeus Stevens

  14. Which political agreement resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South in 1877?

    • Compromise of 1850
    • Compromise of 1877
    • Crittenden Compromise
    • Missouri Compromise

  15. Which Southern group of white conservatives known as 'Redeemers' sought to restore white control of Southern politics?

    • Scalawags
    • Redeemers
    • Free Soilers
    • Carpetbaggers

  16. Which federal agency was established in 1865 to assist newly emancipated Black Americans?

    • Southern Claims Commission
    • Civil Works Administration
    • Resettlement Administration
    • Freedmen's Bureau

  17. Which 1863 executive order expanded Lincoln's war aim from preserving the Union to ending slavery?

    • Gettysburg Address
    • Ten Percent Plan
    • Emancipation Proclamation
    • Wade-Davis Bill

  18. Which Southern Democratic political faction took control of state governments in the 1870s to end Reconstruction?

    • Radical Republicans
    • Redeemers
    • Carpetbaggers
    • Scalawags

  19. Which Union strategy devised by Winfield Scott used a naval blockade to strangle the Confederacy?

    • Anaconda Plan
    • King Cotton strategy
    • Total War
    • Peninsular Campaign

  20. Which constitutional amendment passed in 1865 officially abolished slavery throughout the United States?

    • Fourteenth Amendment
    • Sixteenth Amendment
    • Fifteenth Amendment
    • Thirteenth Amendment

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