Test: The Civil War
Lees surrendered to Grant at:
Appomattox
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was ordered to move into the Shenandoah valley to appear as if he were going to attack Richmond. T/F?
False
Appomattox Court House
Lee surrenders
At the peace talks held at Hampton Road, Lincoln offered peace on the following conditions:
Reunion of the states Emancipation of slaves
Which General captured Atlanta?
Sherman
Select N for the Northern generals and S for the Southern generals.
Sherman N Lee S Jackson S McClellan N Burnside N Grant N
The ___ felt that tariffs would hurt its trade with foreign countries
South
The first state Grant invaded in the West was:
Tennessee
Johnson was impeached in the House because he violated the:
Tenure of Office Act
Slavery was criticized for all the following reasons
That it was morally wrong That it retarded progress That it denied education to blacks
Lincoln's election caused South Carolina to secede from the Union. T/F?
True
More emancipation societies existed in the South than in the North before 1830. T/F?
True
Preston Brooks attacked Senator Sumner with a cane because of Sumner's criticism of Senators butler and Douglas T/F?
True
Robert E. Lee joined the Confederacy because he did not want to fight against his home, family, and state.T/F?
True
Slaves were more profitable than indentured servants because they were permanent possessions of their masters. T/F?
True
Southerners said they needed slaves in order to maintain their economy T/F?
True
The Doctrine of Nullification stated that the individual states did not have to obey Federal laws. T/F?
True
The only section of the country to allow slavery was the South. T/F?
True
Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad
In the North, the Dred Scott decision was:
Unpopular
The battle of ____ gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
What state had its boundaries changed when the eastern counties joined the Confederacy?
Virginia
The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred when both men were running to be a ____
a Senator
Sherman
a march of destruction
Northerners who came South for political opportunities were called:
carpetbaggers
General Lee
commander of the north Virginia army
Battle of Petersburg
cut communication with the South
Joint committee of 15
investigated conditions in the South
Battle of Gettysburg
the last Confederate offensive
Abolitionists
wanted slavery abolished
John Brown
wanted to establish an abolitionist republic
Abraham Lincoln
won 1860 Presidential election
Thirteenth Amendment
prohibited slavery
Stephen Douglas
proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act
Freedman's Bureau
protected the interests of free black slaves
Frederick Douglas
published "North Star"
Battle of Chancellorsville
"Stonewall" Jackson was killed
Seven Martyrs
Republicans who voted not guilty
Lee's campaign to take over Maryland was stopped at the battle of:
Antietam
According to Lincoln's 10 percent plan, new state governments had to do all of the following:
Be republican in form recognize the emancipation of black people Provide education for freed slaves
What was the North's battle strategy?
Capture Richmond Blockade Southern ports Capture the Mississippi and divide the South in half
American Plan
Clay's plan to end sectionalism
First Reconstruction Act
Congress's Reconstruction Act
The ____ freed all slaves in any state still in rebellion on January 1, 1863.
Emancipation Proclamation
The South believed that it could defeat the North because the South was fighting on its own home ground. T/F?
England did not support the South because England realized that it needed Northern wheat more than Southern cotton
Lincoln was very pleased with actions of his generals. T/F?
False
Lincoln's assassination worked in favor of the South during the Reconstruction. T/F?
False
The Emancipation Proclamation affected the South greatly. T/F?
False
The Republican Radicals wanted the Fifteenth Amendment because they feared that with black people voting, they would lode control of Congress. T/F?
False
The Civil War began at the battle of ____.
Fort Sumter
All of the following states seceded from the Union after Lincoln's election
Georgia Louisiana Texas
The battle at ____ was the last major Southern offensive and ended the possibility of the South winning the was
Gettysburg
The author of the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was:
Harriet B. Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The expanding West desired all of the following
Internal improvements Free public land Bank credit
All of the following men were candidates in the 1860 election
John Breckinridge John Bell Stephen Douglas
All true statements from the Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued it to shorten the war and gain support from non -slave nations It was issued after the battle at Antietam It ensured that England would not support the South.
10 per cent plan
Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
Andrew Johnson
Lincoln's successor
The North had the advantage over the South in all of the following:
Money Farms Railroads
The ____ wanted tariffs to protect its industries
North
All of the following states left the Union after the battle of Fort Sumter
North Carolina Virginia Arkansas
Allowing settlers in a territory to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not was called:
Popular sovereignty
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy
Select those items that are true about the South's war effort:
The South planned on fighting a defensive war The South hoped to receive help form France The South hoped to receive help from England
Jefferson Davis
The president of the Confederacy
"Bleeding Kansas"
The struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups
All states were readmitted to the Union by 1870.T/F?
True
Johnson's plan was unacceptable to the Radicals because it did not punish the South enough. T/F?
True
Lincoln promised the South that he would not interfere with slavery where it already existed.T/F?
True
Battle of Antietam
an attempt to capture Maryland
John Wilkes Booth
assassinated Lincoln
All of the following items were part of the North's battle plan:
blockade Southern ports Cut the South in half Capture Richmond
Admiral Farragut
captured New Orleans
Crittenden Compromise
extend 36 30' line to California
1619
first African slaves arrived in Jamestown
The first Reconstruction Act divided the South into how many military districts?
five
Republican Party
formed to prevent spread of slavery
Battle of Vicksburg
gained control of all of the Mississippi River
Fifteenth Amendment
gave black men the right to vote
General Grant
led Northern forces in the West
Nat Turner
led a slave rebellion in Virginia
Black Codes
limited the civil and economic rights of black people
Fourteenth Amendment
made blacks citizens of the United States
To remove military occupation, each state had to do all of the following:
make black people citizens guarantee black suffrage create a state government acceptable to Congress
West Virginia
nonseceding counties in Virginia
Jefferson Davis
president of Confederacy
Ku Klux Klan
prevented black people form voting
Lecompton Fraud
pro slavery constitution in Kansas
indentured
servitude in exchange for passage to the United States
The battle of Gettysburg began when Confederate soldiers were caught looking for:
shoes
"Bleeding Kansas"
struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups
Dred Scott
sued for his freedom
Fort Sumter
surrender began Civil War
Monitor
the North's Ironclad ship
Monitor
the North's ironclad
Battle of Bull Run
the South gains confidence
Virginia
the South's ironclad
Richmond
the capial of the Confederacy
The states' rights issue was a question of each states' relationship to:
the federal government
