U.S. History Chapter 4 TEST

general who surrendered the Confederate Amy to Union forces

Robert E. Lee

12. What did the Supreme Court declare in the Dred Scott decision? A. Being in free territory did not make a slave free. B. Being in free territory automatically made a slave free. C. Slave owners could not move into free territory with slaves. D. Slave owners could not travel through free territory with slaves.

A. Being in free territory did not make a slave free.

16. Which group is an example of Northerners who wanted to keep slavery out of the territories but did not positive feelings toward African-Americans? A. Free-Soilers B. border ruffians C. Abolitionists D. Confederates

A. Free-Soilers

Republican who won the presidency in 1860

Abraham Lincoln

19. What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation? A. It immediately freed Southern slaves. B. It gave a moral purpose to the war. C. It united the Republican Party. D. It kept Great Britain out of war.

B. It gave a moral purpose to the war. OR D. It kept Great Britain out of war.

18. Which was NOT part of the Union's three part plan to conquer the South? A. blockade Southern ports B. draft freed slaves to fight for the Union C. capture the Confederate capital D. split the Confederacy in two

B. draft freed slaves to fight for the Union

20. What was the aim of "total war" as practiced by Union generals Grant and Sherman? A. to fight until the Confederacy had no army left B. to break the Southern people's will to fight C. to wage war in every part of the South D. to use the most lethal weapons available

B. to break the Southern people's will to fight

21. Which is the best word to describe Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction, which Johnson largely followed? A. vindictive B. harsh C. lenient D. unfair

C. lenient

11. Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory? A. the Senate B. the President C. the residents of the territory D. the House of Representatives

C. the residents of the territory

13. When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal? A. to free the slaves B. to punish the South C. to restore the Union D. to bring an end to the war

C. to restore the Union

Radical Republican leader during Reconstruction

Charles Sumner

15. Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Reconstruction Act of 1867? A. The South would be divided into military districts. B. Southern states had to pass the Fourteenth Amendment. C. Southern states had to give African American the right to vote. D. All African-American families would receive 40 acres and a mule.

D. All African-American families would receive 40 acres and a mule.

14. In which of the following areas did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War? A. food production B. civilian leadership C. industrial capacity D. military leadership

D. military leadership

17. What was John Brown's aim at Harper's Ferry? A. to keep pro-slavery out of Kansas B. to help fugitive slaves reach freedom in the North C. to challenge Abraham Lincoln in a presidential debate D. to seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising

D. to seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising

wrote a novel that incited protests against the Fugitive Slave Act

Harriet Beecher Stowe

conductor on the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

the first African-American U.S. senator

Hiram Revels

led the fight against the Compromise of 1850

John C. Calhoun

U.S. senator who debated Abraham Lincoln on slavery in the territories

Stephen A. Douglas

general who won at Vicksburg and became commander of all Union armies

Ulysses S. Grant

the Union general who burned a path of destruction through Georgia

William Tecumseh Sherman