U.S. History: The Union in Peril

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The strife in "Bleeding Kansas" was associated with a conflict between _________________ and _________________

Free soilers and slavery supporters

What is the message in this political cartoon?

Freed men are intimidated by opponents of Reconstruction

Which Civil War battle was significant in that it halted Robert E. Lee's invasion of the north?

Gettysburg

Which abolitionist was known as "Black Moses"

Harriet Tubman

What was John Brown's aim at Harper's Ferry?

To seize a federal arsenal and start a slave revolt

By what name was General Scott's strategy known?

The Anaconda Plan

What is the best contemporary definition of a scalawag?

A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War

Antietam

The Emancipation Proclamation was announced after the Battle of...

Antietam/Sharpsburg

The Supreme Court declared in the Dred Scott decision...

Being a slave in a free state does NOT make you free

The aim of total war as practiced by Generals Grant and Sherman was to...

Break the Southern people's will to fight

"Stonewall" Jackson earned his nickname here, and this resulted in a Confederate victory

Bull Run

Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850?

California was admitted as a free state

Which of these was a characteristic of the South that contributed to its military strength

Capable military leadership

These members of the Republican Party left their homes after the Civil War and went South

Carpetbaggers

Robert E.Lee was a key general in what conflict?

Civil War

Henry Clay presented a series of resolutions, which later would be called _________________

Compromise of 1850

The main purpose of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was to...

Destroy the South's strategic and economic capacity to fight

The majority of Civil War deaths came as a result of...

Disease and infection

What was not a part of the Union's 3 part plan to conquer the South?

Draft freed slaves to fight for the Union

In the Supreme Court ruling against _________________, slaves were defined as property

Dred Scott

The Dred Scott decision

Encouraged slaveholder's resistance to abolitionist activist

To curb the violence of the KKK, Congress passed the...

Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871

The 1862 battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was MOST significant because it was...

First battle fought between ironclad ships in the Civil War

Under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a white person in the North could be imprisoned or fined...

For helping a slave escape

Who was the first African-American U.S. Senator?

Hiram Revels

General William T. Sherman's "March to Sea" was important to the Union war effort because...

Important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply

What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

It gave a moral purpose to the Civil War

Which of the following abolished slavery in the U.S.?

The 13th Amendment

How did the artist choose to portray the contribution of John Brown to the U.S. History?

John Brown opposed slavery

This law allowed territories to decide the fate of slavery based on popular sovereignty

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which word best describes Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

Lenient

Abraham Lincoln's biggest objective in the Civil War was to...

Save the Union

Farmers who agreed to give most of their harvest back to the landowners are...

Sharecroppers

What was Harriet Beecher Stowe's BIGGEST role in the Antebellum U.S?

She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852

During the first two years of the American Civil War, the war in the East was marked by...

Significant Confederate victories

This helped Americans to realize that the U.S. was a single nation, not individual states

The Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg was considered a turning point in the Civil War because...

The South gave up the idea of invading the North

Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?

The residents of the territory

With the fall of Port Hudson and _________________, the Union achieved its goal of cutting the C.S.A. in two

Vicksburg

Which Union general is credited with using "Total War" in the deep south?

William Tecumseh Sherman


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