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AP U.S. History
Chapter 15 Quiz
Instructions: Answer each of the following eight questions:
1. What advantages did the North have at the outset of the war that made them
believe they could win?
2. What advantages did the South have at the outset of the war that made them
believe they could win?
3. Describe the reaction of the border states (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky,
Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia) to the Deep South’s secession:
4. Why did Lincoln go through so many generals in charge of the Union army before
settling on Grant?
5. Choose two of the following three battles and describe their importance to the
outcome of the Civil War: Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg
6. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? What did it promise? What effect (if
any) did it have on the war?
7. Describe the strategy Grant used in the Civil War:
8. Describe Sherman’s March to the Sea and its importance:
AP U.S. History
Chapter 16 quiz
Instructions: Answer each of the following eight questions:
1. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? Was it successful in its mission?
2. After the Civil War some people believed that former slaves should be given land
so they could start a new life. What plans were put forward? Did former slaves
receive land?
3. In the first few years after the civil war, the lives of black Americans in the South
improved dramatically. Describe some of these improvements:
4. What did the states that had seceded from the Union have to do to be re-admitted
to the Union?
5. As the lives of former slaves improved, many white southerners began to use
violence as a way to re-assert control over the African-American population. Describe
this violence and its effect:
6. Describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments:
7. The “Compromise of 1877” marked the end of the era known as Reconstruction.
What was this compromise? What was its effect?
8. The textbook calls the period between 1865 and 1877 a “’golden moment’—an
unprecedented opportunity for the nation to live up to its ideals by extending equal
rights to all its citizens, black and white alike.” In what ways was this a missed
opportunity?