US History Chapter 4 Test Review The Union in Peril
General who surrendered the Confederate Army to Union forces
Robert E Lee
The Civil War began on ?
April 12th, 1861
Republican who won the presidency in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Who was Lincoln's Vice President in 1865?
Andrew Johnson
What did the Supreme Court declare in the Dred Scott decision?
Being in free territory did not make a slave free
Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850?
California was admitted as a free state
What do you call Northerners who went South after the war to make a quick buck?
Carpetbaggers
The Civil War nurse who later started the American Red Cross was?
Clara Barton
Which was not part of the Union's three part plan to conquer the South?
Draft freed slaves to fight for the Union
Define Dread Scott
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at?
Fort Sumter
Wrote a novel that incited protests against the Fugitive Slave Act
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Explain why President Lincoln went to war in the first place and how and when did his purpose for fighting change?
He motivated the Northern war effort and gave the war a higher purpose, it changed becuase he realized that he couldn't free all slaves and it would weaken the power of the confederate army?
Which action showed that Andrew Jackson did not support greater rights for African Americans in the South?
He vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act in 1866
First African- American U.S. senator ?
Hiram Revels
What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It gave moral purpose to the war
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?
It made the South give up on the idea of invading the North
Who was president of the Confederate States of America ?
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln's assassin was ?
John Wilkes Booth
Which is the best word to describe Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction, which Johnson largely followed?
Lenient
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to come into the Union as a slave state and who as a free state?
Maine
In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
Military leadership
Define Robert E Lee
Robert Edward Lee was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until its surrender in 1865
US senator who debated Abraham Lincoln on slavery in the territories
Stephen Douglas
Define Gettysburg War
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
What key difference between the North and the South ultimately led to the Civil War?
The Southern economy depended on slavery, while the Northern economy did not
Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?
The residents of the territory
What was the aim of "total war" as practiced by Union generals Grant and Sherman?
To break the Southern people's will to fight
Why did the federal government eventually send troops into the South?
To limit the acts of violence and voter intimidation against African Americans
When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?
To restore the Union
What was John Brown's aim at Harpers Ferry?
To seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising
The Battle of Antietam is significant because?
Twenty-six thousand men died in one day
General who won at Vicksburg and became commander of all Union armies
Ulysses S. Grant
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book about Slavery entitled ?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The union general who burned a path of destruction through Georgia
William Tecumseh Sherman
Define Carpetbagger
was a derogatory term applied by former Confederates to any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War; they were perceived as exploiting the local populace.
