Flagg History Test Study Guide (4th Quarter)
Who opened Hartford School for the deaf in Connecticut in 1817?
Thomas Gallaudet
What was the Union goal in the West?
To control the Mississippi River
Which of the following is the systematic destruction of an entire land?
Total War
Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.
True
Elizabeth Blackwell graduated first in her medical school class after having been turned down by several other schools.
True
For the North, the primary goal was to preserve the Union.
True
In 1839 Massachusetts founded the first-state supported school to train teachers.
True
In the 1840s, students learned to become teachers at normal schools.
True
Josiah T. Walls was Florida's first African American congressman.
True
Many Reconstruction-era Democrats supported the Klu Klux Klan.
True
Most newly freed African American voters supported the Republican Party.
True
Opposition to abolitionism sometimes erupted into violence.
True
President Lincoln was assassinated while attending a play.
True
The Gettysburg Address was given at a ceremony to dedicate a cemetery.
True
The Grimke sisters grew up in a slaveholding family but became strong opponents of slavery.
True
The Know-Nothings chose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the 1856 presidential election.
True
The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.
True
The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.
True
Ulysses S. Grant
Union general
General Grant led a 47-day siege against which city?
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Voters choose whether to allow slavery; popular sovereignty
Freeport Doctorine
Voters could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws that protected the rights of slaveholders
Peace Democrats
Wanted an immediate end to the Civil War through negotiation
Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called...
carpetbaggers
The South expected support from Britain and France because these two European nations relied on the South for...
cotton
In 1867 states that had not ratified the Fourteenth Amendment were required to...
form new governments
To keep poor people and African Americans from voting, many Southern states enforced...
poll taxes
Abolitionists like Lucretia Mott helped organize...
the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
The Wilmot Proviso called for...
the banning of slavery in any lands the United States might acquire from Mexico
¨Bleeding Kansas¨
An attack on Lawrence, Kansas
Lynching
Angry mobs killing people by hanging them
Clara Barton
Became famous for her work with wounded soldiers
Which of these were laws designated to limit the freedom of the newly freed African Americans?
Black Codes
Because the war disrupted their supply of cotton, the South expected support from which two countries?
Britain and France
What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?
Civil War
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Confedarate spy
Compromise of 1850
Divided into parts; contained the Fugitive Slave Act
Who was the schoolteacher who helped educate the public about the poor living conditions of the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
Which of the following relates to a Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Constitution protected slavery?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
An efficient railway network was one of the South's greatest strengths.
False
Lincoln believed that slavery was moral.
False
Proslavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.
False
Stonewall Jackson was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
False
The 54th Massachusetts was an all-female regiment.
False
The Grimke sisters spoke out against abolition.
False
The Ten Percent Plan required ten percent of each state's voters to swear loyalty to the Confederacy.
False
The Underground Railroad carried food to poor areas in the South.
False
The Wade-Davis Bill replaced the Ten Percent Plan.
False
The abolitionist Sojourner Truth was given her name by her former slaveholder.
False
From where did most Confederate and Union soldiers come?
Farms
Where was the first major battle of the Civil War?
First Battle of Bull Run
President Abraham Lincoln was shot at...
Ford's Theater
Who was the Union general that captured Fort Henry?
General Ulysses S. Grant
When Congress did not approve the suspension of Edwin Stanton, what did President Johnson do?
He fired General Stanton
How did most African Americans live in the North?
In poverty working in factories in cities
What was one of the weaknesses of the American Colonization Society?
It never stopped the growth of slavery
Why did the Union want to control the Mississippi River and its tributaries?
It would split the Confederacy in two and cut Southern supply lines
Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
In which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?
Kansas
John Brown
Led an attack on Lawrence, Kansas
Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Loss of Fort Sumter
Why did the South suffer the most destruction during the Civil War?
Most of the fighting took place in the South
Ulysses S. Grant's assault resulted in a nine-month siege on which railway center?
Petersburg
What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternate to the Missouri Compromise?
Popular Sovereignty (Kansas-Nebraska Act)
Henry David Thoreau
Practiced civil disobedience
Which position did Franklin Pierce begin holding in 1853?
President
The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called...
Reconstruction
Roger B. Taney
Said that Congress has no power over slavery
Which of these was provided for in Florida's ¨black codes¨?
Segregated churches
Segregation
Separation of races
What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Slavery
What city, Florida´s capital, remained under Confederate control during the Civil War?
Tallahassee
Which Southern state immediately ratified the Fourteenth Amendment?
Tennessee
James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state?
Texas
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
The 15th Amendment
When President Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act, what did Congress do?
The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Johnson
Which party did the Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers join together to form?
The Republican Party
Which definition best fits the word abolition?
The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution
36°30' North Latitude
The line that limited slavery
After relieving General McClellon of his duties, a frustrated President Lincoln watched different generals try and fail to lead the Union to victory. Who were these generals?
Ambrose Burnside and Joseph Hooker
By the end of the war, African Americans volunteers made up nearly which percentage of the Union army?
10%
Zachary Taylor
1848 Whig presidential candidate; ignored slavery
Habeas corpus
A legal process that helps ensure the government has a legal right to keep someone in jail
Bounties
A sum of money
W.E.B. Du Bois
African American civil rights leader and writer
Samuel Cornish and John Russworm started Freedom's Journal, the country's first...
African American newspaper
grandfather clause
Allows people to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction
What was the Merrimack?
An abandoned Union frigate used by the Confederacy