APUSH Civil War Test
Arrange these in order 1.) Dred Scott decision 2.) Lincoln-Douglas debates 3.) Kansas-Nebraska Act 4.) Harper Ferry raid
3.) Kansas-Nebraska Act 1.) Dred Scott decision 2.) Lincoln-Douglas debates 4.) Harper Ferry raid
Arrange the following in chronological order: A) Battle of Bull Run B) Battle of Gettysburg C) Lee's surrender at Appomattox D) Battle of Antietam
A) Battle of Bull Run D) Battle of Antietam B) Battle of Gettysburg C) Lee's Surrender at Appomattox
The Union army's success in the capture of _______ was probably critical to Lincoln's reelections in 1864
Atlanta and Mobile
The political group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the
Copperheads
The two major battles of the Civil War fought on Union soil were
Gettysburg and Antietam
Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party's position on the slavery question A.) Abraham Lincoln 1.) extend slavery into the territories B.) Stephen Douglas 2.) ban slavery from the territories C.) John Breckenridge 3.) preserve the Union by compromise D.) John Bell 4.) enforce popular sovereignty
Lincoln - (2)ban slavery Douglas - (4)popular sovereignty Breckenridge - (1)extend slavery Bell - (3)preserve union
Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that
Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort
The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because
Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed
In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with
a deadly armed attack and partial burning of the free-soil town of Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders
The European great powers welcomed a civil war in the United States for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
a divided America would likely put a halt to European immigration
One consequence of General William T. Sherman's style of warfare was
a shorter war that saved lives
In the presidential election of 1856, the Republicans
although not victorious, revealed impressive popular appeal in the Northeast and parts of the West for the first presidential election
Union General Ulysses S. Grant's basic strategy in the Civil War involved
assailing the enemy's armies simultaneously, massively, and directly
During the Civil War,
black were enlisted by the Union army only after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued
After assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, General George McClellan made the mistake of
consistently believing that the enemy outnumbered him
General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to
deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement and encourage foreign intervention behalf of the South
The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its
economy, particularly its greater manufacturing capacity and more efficient and extensive railroad network
The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its
economy, particularly its limited manufacturing capacity and inferior railroad network
The roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery sentiments lay in the
evangelical religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening
To achieve its independence, the confederacy had to
fight the invading Union army to a draw
As a result of the Civil War, the Northern economy
greatly expanded its industrial ad technological productivity
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination on part because he
had made fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward
Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because
he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery
Lincoln declared from the outset of the Civil War that
he was not fighting to free black slaves
In invading Maryland, one of General Lee's key objectives was to
inspire the Border States, particularly the wavering Maryland, to join the Confederacy and its secessionist cause
After defeating McClellan at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Robert E. Lee decided to
invade the Union via Maryland
The North's victory at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to
issue the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, making the Civil War more of a moral crusade against slavery
In the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court made all of the following determinations except
it decided that slaves brought into territories north of 36° 30'
The Union victory at Vicksburg was of major importance for all of the following reasons except
it was the last major battle of the Civil War
As a result of the panic of 1857, the South
over confidently believed that it was now economically superior to the North
The clash and political fallout between Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in 1856 revealed that
passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South
In declaring their independence, the Confederate States asserted that they were following the historical example of the
principles of self-determination of the Declaration of Independence
When the people of the Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments
realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular
In Lincoln's attempts to preserve the Union, he did all of the following questionable actions as president EXCEPT
refused to implement a draft, or conscription law, during the war
Stephen A. Douglas argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that
slavery would remain illegal if the people of a territory would vote it down, regardless of the Supreme Court's contrary decision in the Dred Scott case
The Emancipation Proclamation had the effect of
strengthening the moral cause and diplomatic position of the Union
After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that
the North was dominated by "Brown-loving" Republicans
During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by
the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship by a Union warship in 1861
The Southern cause was weakened by
the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed ran contrary to the vision of a tight, well-knit central government held by its president, Jefferson Davis
The Union's defeat in the battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because
the defeat caused Northerners to face up to the reality of a long, difficult war
The Civil War resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
the end of protective tariffs and isolationism
One reason that the British did not try to break the Union blockade of the South during the Civil War was that
they feared losing Northern grain shipments
In Order to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union, President Lincoln
used legally dubious methods including the declaration of martial law in Maryland and the deployment of Union soldiers in a local civil war in Missouri
Aside from ending slavery, black enlisted into the Union Army because they
wanted to prove their manhood and strengthen their postwar claim to full American citizenship
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
was a substantial political calamity for the South
The Union's establishment of the National Banking System
was the first significant step toward a unified banking network since 1836
The Civil War was a women's war in all of the following ways EXCEPT
women were encouraged to run for office to fill political posts abandoned by men
Slaves hindered the Confederacy's war efforts by
work slowdowns and strikes that diminished productivity, serving as spies, guides and courts for the Unions army andcreating the need for white men to guard slaves when they could have been on the warfront
The Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas
would continue to permit slavery for owners of slaves who held slaves in Kansas at the time of the ratification vote, even if the voters of Kansas enacted the Lecompton constitution "without slavery"
As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners
would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law
