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The Civil War and Reconstruction
-DSST Test

The Civil War and Reconstruction DSST Test Version 2

 Select your topic of choice: Number of questions:
 Causes of the War 49
 1861 27
 1862 64
 1863 66
 1864 to May 1865 74
 Reconstruction 37

The DSST Practice Tests above contain 318 multiple-choice practice test questions with study guides (detailed explanations).

The ACE (American Council on Education) recommends 3 upper or lower level college credits for this exam.

Studying, and passing, the practice tests above will allow you to confidently take and pass your The Civil War and Reconstruction DSST test. The overall key concepts, and specific individual points, that will allow you to pass your test are within the practice questions and detailed explanations.


Course Information and Overview

This exam covers material that is typically taught in a semester introductory-level college course. The multiple-choice DANTES/DSST exam consists of about 100 questions and allows two hours to complete. 

The Civil War and Reconstruction DSST/DANTES exam contains questions that come from the following topics:

  • Causes of the War (11%)
    The United States and society of the mid 19th century
    Differences developing between the North and South
    Slavery
    Industrialization, immigration, religion, and standards of living
    Cotton and it's role in the South
    Abolitionist movement
    Expansion westward of free territory and slave territory
    Missouri Compromise
    The origin of the Republican party
    Dred Scott decision
    John Brown's raid and Harper's Ferry
    Politics of the day
  • 1861 (11%)
    Secession
    South Carolina's role and the border states
    Fort Sumter
    Union and Confederate Armies
    Leadership and quality of forces
    Bull Run
  • 1862 (22%)
    Politics in the North and in the South
    Lincoln's cabinet and Davis's cabinet
    Army of Potomac (McClellan)
    War in the West
    Generals Buell, Grant, and Sherman
    War in the East
    Generals Jackson and Lee
    Major Battles (Shiloh, Second Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg)
    Emancipation Proclamation
  • 1863 (21%)
    Casualties of war
    Care of injured and wounded
    POW's
    Women's roles in the war
    Black Americans and their roles in the war
    Slaves in the South and runaway slaves
    Politics or the North and of the South
    Conscription, copperheads, profiteering
    Major battles (Chancellorsville, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Gettysburg)
  • 1864 to May 1865 (22%)
    Political situation
    Demoralization in the North
    Presidential election
    South's isolation
    War in the West
    Sherman's march
    Generals Forrest and Johnston
    Major battles (Atlanta, Mobile Bay)
    Grant and the Army of the Potomac
    Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia
    Major battles (Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Shenandoah Valley, Petersburg)
    Sherman's march through the South
    Fall of Richmond
    Lee's surrender
    Assassination of President Lincoln
    Confederacy's demise
    Costs of the war
  • Reconstruction (13%)
    Presidential reconstruction plans (Lincoln, Johnson)
    Congressional reconstruction plans
    Fourteenth Amendment
    Fifteenth Amendment
    Civil Rights Act
    Scalawags and carpetbaggers
    End of reconstruction
    Election of 1876
    Compromise of 1877

Complete information and a fact sheet (PDF Format) of what is covered is available from Prometric.