US History - Quizzes
The first significant battle of the Civil War took place at
Bull Run
Before 1860 southerners had
Controlled the presidency most of the time Been a majority on the Supreme Court Provided the leadership of the House Provided the leadership of the Senate
European monarchists and conservatives were distressed at the idea of Southern secession leading to the breakup of the United States.
False
Lincoln's cabinet advised him not to withdraw the federal troops from Fort Sumter.
False
Southern moderates were convinced that secession was not inevitable if Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
False
The Battle of Shiloh began with the Union on the attack.
False
The Republican platform of 1860 called for the abolition of slavery.
False
The delegates at the Southern secession conventions voted unanimously in favor of withdrawing from the Union.
False
The siege at Fort Sumter lasted for ten days.
False
The president of the Confederacy was
Jefferson Davis
South Carolina attacked Fort Sumter when
Lincoln announced his plan to peacefully resupply the fort.
One of the major problems faced by Union armies during the campaigns of 1862 was
McClellan's reluctance to fight.
John Bell won all of the following states in the election of 1860 except
Missouri
The Crittenden Compromise
Promised to protect slavery in all territories South of 36 30'
By the fall of 1860, all of the following national organizations had split into Northern and Southern factions except
Republican Party
At the Battle of the Seven Days, Confederate armies prevented George McClellan from capturing which vital Southern city?
Richmond
Although Stephen Douglas came in second in the popular vote in 1860, he carried only one state.
True
Constitutional Union Party presidential candidate John Bell had no chance of winning the election of 1860.
True
The 1860 Democratic platform endorsed popular sovereignty.
True
The Democratic Party split into two factions before the election of 1860.
True
The South's voluntary embargo of cotton exports suggested to British and French diplomats that the Union blockade was at least partly effective.
True
In the famous naval battle of 1861, the Northern ship Monitor faced the Southern ironclad, the
Virginia
Which of the following states entered the Union during the Civil War?
West Virginia
The main plank of the Republican Party's 1860 platform called for
exclusion of slavery from the territories.
The Confederate economy suffered from
extremely high rates of inflation.
Over the course of the Civil War, a larger proportion of the North's male population of military age served in the military than did in the South.
false
Seceded states did not seize federal property within their borders.
false
Southern Democrats embraced Stephen A. Douglas as a possible presidential nominee in 1860.
false
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
guaranteed slavery in both the states and the territories.
Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the presidency by the Republican Party in 1860 because?
he was a moderate whose career exemplified the opportunities possible in a free-labor system.
Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because he feared that it would
lead to southern filibustering to take Cuba and other southern lands.
According to the theory of secession,
no state had given away its fundamental sovereignty and therefore each could withdraw from the union.
All of the following statements regarding Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 are true except he
only carried one southern state.
Many of the civilized Native Americans in Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
owned slaves and thus sided with the Confederacy.
The Confederate war effort was financed primarily by
treasury notes
The 1860 Republican platform was designed to appeal to many groups in the North.
true
The Union war effort was financed primarily by
war bonds
The reputation of General Ulysses S. Grant was established in 1862
with his stirring victories at Forts Donelson and Henry in Tennessee.
