APUSH Test 6

Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that

Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort

To achieve its independence, the Confederacy had to

fight the invading Union army to a draw

The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it

probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy

To many Northerner's, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that

the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War and the North had sacrificed its young men in vain

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 political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated

the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction

For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states' quick restoration to the Union was that

with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics and Democrats could possibly regain control of Congress in the near future

When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves in

Confederate states still in rebellion against the United States

The political group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the

Copperheads

Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the "Redeemer" administrations?

Establishment of a public school system

The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open in February 1866 was

Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau

As a result of the Union fighting to a draw militarily at Antietam Creek with Robert E. Lee's Confederate army

Lincoln was now prepared to issue his Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction

The formation of the Ku Klux Klan

Which of the following best describes the situation of freedman in the decade following the Civil War

The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters

The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its

economy, particularly its limited manufacturing capacity and inferior railroad network

The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as

a secret terrorist organization seeking to subjugate and terrorize blacks in the South through violent means

President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction

aimed at swift restoration of the Southern states after a few modest political conditions were met by the Southern states

Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of Civil War

caused whole communities of Southern blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi to migrate westward to territories and states such as Kansas for better job opportunities

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves

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 on behalf of the South

The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his

dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act

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 main purpose of the Black Codes was to

ensure a stable and subservient labor supply

The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it

forestalled the possibility of European intervention

Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

freed slaves must be granted the right to vote

During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the

granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods

As a result of the Civil War, the Northern economy

greatly expanded its industrial and technological productivity

The problems that President Abraham Lincoln experienced in conducting the Civil War were less harmful than those experience by Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, partly because the Union

had a long-established and fully recognized government

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

As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of

more talented military leaders

In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William Seward achieved the Johnson administration's greatest success in foreign relations when he

purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million

In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised

rapid, straightforward, and readily achievable readmission of Southern states into the Union

Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the

ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution

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

The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do all of the following except

relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters

Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery

revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies

The Border States offered all of the following strategic advantages except

shipbuilding factories

During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the

spread of sharecropping

Which of the following was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War

the political and legal status of former Confederate states

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

Most working people in Britain sided with the North because

they had develop a class consciousness and moral revulsion about the evils of slavery and hoped that the Civil War would eventually extinguish slavery in the South and the western territories

All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except

they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry

Andrew Johnson had been put on Lincoln's ticket as vice president in his second term

to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners

In order to persuade the Border States to remain 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, blacks enlisted into the Union Army because they

wanted to prove their manhood and strengthen their postwar claim to full American citizenship

In 1861, the North went to war with the South primarily to

preserve the Union

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

strengthen the moral cause of the Union

After the Peninsula Campaign, Union strategy included all of the following except

striking deep into the Confederacy via the Appalachian Mountain chain

The goals of the Ku Klux Klan included all of the following except

support the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871

Napoleon III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of

the Monroe Doctrine