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.