U.S. History High School Study Guide
Exam Questions And Actual Answers.
Causes of the Civil War - Answer • Slavery
• States' rights
• Territorial claims
• Abolitionist movement
• Regional differences
Consequences of the Civil War - Answer • Reconstruction
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fifteenth Amendment
Dred Scott - Answer A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin
Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on
free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights.
Abraham Lincoln - Answer 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War
and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
Andrew Johnson - Answer 17th President of the United States; he was elected Vice President and
succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated
,Jefferson Davis - Answer President of the Confederate States of America
Frederick Douglass - Answer United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an
influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
Ulysses S. Grant - Answer an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States
(1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
Robert E. Lee - Answer Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union
should be held together by force
William T. Sherman - Answer general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south, union
general, led march to destroy all supplies and resources, beginning of total warfare
Harriet Tubman - Answer United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and
became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North
(1820-1913)
Sojourner Truth - Answer United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and
became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
Radical Republicans - Answer Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after
civil war
Buffalo Soldiers - Answer Nickname for African-American soldiers who fought in the wars against
Native Americans living on the Great Plains during the 1870s
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Answer when the Radical Republicans tried Andrew Johnson
for impeachment because he wanted to fire Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War. The Radical
Republicans passed a law called the Tenure of Office Act saying that a President cannot fire a worker
"just because". President Johnson stayed in office by one vote.
, Black Legislators - Answer Many blacks were elected to Federal offices after the Civil War
White Extremist Groups - Answer -KKK
-Knights of the White Camellia
-The White League
-Red Shirts
-Pale Faces
13th Amendment - Answer abolished slavery in the U.S. in 1865
14th Amendment - Answer Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed
equal protection of the laws regardless of race
15th Amendment - Answer Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or
previous condition of servitude
carpetbagger - Answer Northerners who traveled south just to make money off the Reconstruction.
They were called this because their suitcases were usually made from carpet.
Suffrage - Answer the right to vote
Jim Crow Laws - Answer The "separate but equal" segregation laws state and local laws enacted in the
Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965
Black Codes - Answer Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
Exam Questions And Actual Answers.
Causes of the Civil War - Answer • Slavery
• States' rights
• Territorial claims
• Abolitionist movement
• Regional differences
Consequences of the Civil War - Answer • Reconstruction
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fifteenth Amendment
Dred Scott - Answer A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin
Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on
free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights.
Abraham Lincoln - Answer 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War
and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
Andrew Johnson - Answer 17th President of the United States; he was elected Vice President and
succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated
,Jefferson Davis - Answer President of the Confederate States of America
Frederick Douglass - Answer United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an
influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
Ulysses S. Grant - Answer an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States
(1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
Robert E. Lee - Answer Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union
should be held together by force
William T. Sherman - Answer general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south, union
general, led march to destroy all supplies and resources, beginning of total warfare
Harriet Tubman - Answer United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and
became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North
(1820-1913)
Sojourner Truth - Answer United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and
became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
Radical Republicans - Answer Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after
civil war
Buffalo Soldiers - Answer Nickname for African-American soldiers who fought in the wars against
Native Americans living on the Great Plains during the 1870s
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Answer when the Radical Republicans tried Andrew Johnson
for impeachment because he wanted to fire Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War. The Radical
Republicans passed a law called the Tenure of Office Act saying that a President cannot fire a worker
"just because". President Johnson stayed in office by one vote.
, Black Legislators - Answer Many blacks were elected to Federal offices after the Civil War
White Extremist Groups - Answer -KKK
-Knights of the White Camellia
-The White League
-Red Shirts
-Pale Faces
13th Amendment - Answer abolished slavery in the U.S. in 1865
14th Amendment - Answer Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed
equal protection of the laws regardless of race
15th Amendment - Answer Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or
previous condition of servitude
carpetbagger - Answer Northerners who traveled south just to make money off the Reconstruction.
They were called this because their suitcases were usually made from carpet.
Suffrage - Answer the right to vote
Jim Crow Laws - Answer The "separate but equal" segregation laws state and local laws enacted in the
Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965
Black Codes - Answer Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
