The Civil War and Reconstruction DANTES/DSST Test

DANTES (Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support) / DSST (Dantes Subject Standardized Test)

There are 318 multiple-choice practice questions and detailed explanations contained in the Practice Tests and Study Guides below.

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

Studying, and passing, the practice tests below 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 below.

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DSST Practice Test and Study Guides - Begin your studies here # of questions
Causes of the War 49
1861 27
1862 64
1863 66
1864 to May 1865 74
Reconstruction 37

Course Information and Overview

This DSST Test consists of material typically taught in an introductory-level college course. The actual DSST Test is 100 questions and allows 120 minutes to complete.

According to Prometric this The Civil War and Reconstruction Dantes/DSST Test consists of questions from the following subject areas:

  • 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

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