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The Civil War and Reconstruction

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Category: DANTES Subject Standardized Test (DSST)
Number of Questions: 339

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ACE Recommended Exam Value: 3 upper-level credit hours

Course Overview

The Civil War and Reconstruction DSST exam is designed to test the student on the knowledge one would generally have after completing an undergraduate upper-level course on the Civil War. InstantCert's course for this subject looks at the causes of the war, the war itself, and finally, the aftermath of the war and Reconstruction.

Topics Covered in This Course

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 v. 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
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
Lee's surrender
Assassination of Lincoln
End of the Confederacy
Cost of the War

Reconstruction

Presidential reconstruction plans
Congressional reconstruction plans
Reconstruction in the South
End of Reconstruction

Customer Test Results for The Civil War And Reconstruction DSST

172 users submitted test results since January, 2009
165 of those users reported a passing score (96%)

The following are a sample of the test results submitted by members who’ve taken the Civil War and Reconstruction DSST exam after using InstantCert’s study program. These are unfiltered, unedited results and this list is automatically updated to show the ten most recent results:

January 19, 2012	User passed	with a score of	57 out of 80
January 18, 2012	User passed	with a score of	74 out of 80
January 14, 2012	User passed	with a score of	59 out of 80
January 13, 2012	User passed	with a score of	68 out of 80
December 20, 2011	User passed	with a score of	49 out of 80
November 17, 2011	User passed	with a score of	63 out of 80
November 16, 2011	User passed	with a score of	54 out of 80
November 3, 2011	User passed	with a score of	68 out of 80
November 3, 2011	User passed	with a score of	68 out of 80
October 27, 2011	User passed	with a score of	54 out of 80

Free Sample Questions For The Civil War and Reconstruction Dantes

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Related Exams with Overlapping Subject Matter

None of the other CLEP or DSST exams have significant overlap with the Civil War and Reconstruction exam.