DANTES/DSST Study Guide For Civil War & Reconstruction
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The Civil War & Reconstruction DANTES / DSST covers the major events, causes and outcome of the United States Civil War. You'll learn about different political parties, generals, ideas about slavery and the battles that were fought. We also include flashcards to help you memorize the material. This guide will help you ace the test. Detailed information in this guide includes:
•United States Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
•Growing Differences between the North and South
•Slavery as a Southern Institution
•Importance of Cotton
•Living Condition of Slaves
•Abolition Movement
•Leaders
•Uncle Ton’s Cabin
•Westward Expansion of Free and Slave Territory
•Missouri Compromise
•Mexican War
•Compromise of 1850
•Kansas - Nebraska Act
•Birth of Republican Party
•The Kansas Wars
•The Election of 1856
•Dred Scott Decision
•John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
•Political situation in 1860
•Split in Democratic Party
•Republican Party
•Abraham Lincoln
•Election results
•Secession
•South Carolina’s role
•Border States
•Government of Confederation
•Theater Operations
•Fort Sumter
•Union Army vs. Confederate Army
•Preparedness
•Volunteers
•First Manassas (Bull Run)
•Lincoln’s Cabinet
•Conscription
•State Rights
•State Rights and Slavery in Territories
•Southern hope of European aid
•Army of Potomac under McClellan
•War in the West
•Generals Grant, Buell and Sherman
•War in the East
•Peninsular campaign
•Naval involvement
•Blockade and blockade runners
•Monitor vs. Merrimac
•General Lee
•General Jackson
•Major battles
•Casualties
•Causes of Casualties
•Care of Wounded and Sick
•Prisoners of War
•Role of Women in War
•Black Americans and the War
•Political situation
•Anti-emancipation sentiment
•Inflation
•Shortages
•Chancellorsville
•Chickamauga
•Chattanooga
•Stones River (Murfreesboro)
•Vicksburg
•Gettysburg
•Sherman’s march through Georgia
•Spotsylvania
•Cold Harbor
•Shenandoah Valley Campaign
•Petersburg
•Destruction of South’s civilian base
•Fall of Richmond
•Lee’s surrender
•Assassination of Lincoln
•End of the Confederacy
•Johnston’s surrender
•Davis’s capture
•Cost of the War
•Reconstruction
•Presidential reconstruction plans
•Reconstruction Acts
•Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
•Impeachment
•Freedmen’s Bureau
•Civil Rights Act
•Reconstruction in the South
•Response to Johnson’s policies
•Elected Black office-holders
•Scalawags and carpetbaggers
•End of Reconstruction
•Restoration of White government
•Sample Test Questions
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