The Civil War and Reconstruction
Number of Questions: 339
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
456 users submitted test results since January, 2009430 of those users reported a passing score (94%)
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:
October 10, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 450 |
September 19, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 440 |
September 13, 2019 | User failed | with a score of | 378 |
August 21, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 429 |
August 21, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 454 |
August 6, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 461 |
May 31, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 462 |
May 7, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 490 |
March 13, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 460 |
March 8, 2019 | User passed | with a score of | 417 |
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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.