1. AHSGE Chapters 5 & 6
Study Guide
1. Which amendment gave voting rights to all African-American males?
2. What battle is considered the turning point in the Civil War?
3. Where was the first capita of the Confederacy?
4. What was the first southern state to secede from the Union?
5. What amendment to the United States Constitution made African Americans
citizens?
6. What battle resulted in the single bloodiest day of the Civil War?
7. What congressional solution resulted in Rutherford B. Hayes winning the
presidential election in 1876 thus ending Reconstruction?
8. After the Civil War, northerners come to the South for business and were not
liked by southerners. What were these northerners called?
9. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
10. What were southerners called who voted Republican after the Civil War and
supported Reconstruction?
11. What were the laws called that attempted to control freed slaves and keep them as
second-class citizens?
12. What was the name of the document where President Lincoln freed the slaves on
Jan. 1, 1863?
13. Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
14. John Brown was a fierce abolitionist who led a raid against the federal arsenal in
Virginia in order to arm slaves for a rebellion. Where was this raid held?
15. What act passed by Congress gave settlers 160 acres of land if they would agree
to cultivate it for five years?
16. What county in Alabama never seceded from the Union and declared neutrality
throughout the war?
17. Where did General Lee surrender the Confederate troops?
18. What congressional solution made California a free state and gave popular
sovereignty?
19. What part of the Compromise of 1850 guaranteed the return of escaped slaves
from he North?
20. What congressional agreement allowed Missouri to become a slave state and
Maine to become a free state?