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The Civil War and Reconstruction covers the material taught in a one-semester college course. Questions on the exam test:

• Knowledge of basic facts and terms
• Understanding of concepts and principles
• Ability to apply the knowledge to specific case problems

Topics covered in this course are:

• Causes of the War
  • United States society in the mid-nineteenth century
  • Growing differences between the North and South
  • Slavery as a Southern institution
  • Abolition movement
  • Westward expansion of Free and Slave territory
  • John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
  • Political situation in 1860
  
  
• 1861
  • Secession
  • Fort Sumter
  • Union Army vs. Confederate Army
  • First Manassas (Bull Run)
  
  
• 1862
  • Political situation – North and South
  • Army of Potomac under McClellan
  • War in the West
  • War in the East
  • Major battles
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  
  
• 1863
  • Casualties
  • Role of women in the war, North and South
  • Black Americans and the war
  • Political situation
  • Major battles
  
  
• 1864 to May 1865
  • Political situation
  • War in the West
  • War in the East
  • Sherman’s continued march through the South
  • Fall of Richmond, flight of Confederate government
  • Lee’s surrender
  • Assassination of Lincoln
  • End of the Confederacy
  • Cost of the war
  
  
• Reconstruction
  • Presidential reconstruction
  • Congressional reconstruction plans
  • Reconstruction of the South
  • End of Reconstruction

(Taken from “The Civil War and Reconstruction,” DSST/Dantes Subject Standardized Tests, Capstar/The Chauncey Group International.)