APUSH- Civil War Test

All of the following were part of the Union's Anaconda Plan

- Blockade the Confederacy's ports -Control the Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers - Capture the Confederate capital EXCEPT: Defend its own soil and hope for an alliance with Britain

All of the following statements about the Emancipation Proclamation are true

- It was intended to give the Union a military advantage by weakening the Confederacy's labor force -It allowed Union soldiers to free slaves residing in the Confederate states - By making slavery an issue, it likely eliminated the possibility of a European country allying with the Confederacy EXCEPT: It freed all American slaves, including those in border states that remained in the Union

Missouri Compromise

- Made Maine a free state, Missouri a slave state -Banned slavery north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes latitude in the Louisiana Purchase

How did slaves resist slavery themselves?

-1790s: Haitian rebellion -Large rebellions in 1811 (New Orleans) and 1822 (Denmark Vesey plot, South Carolina) -Nat Turner: Small group of slaves led by Turner killed adults, children and an infant in his owner's household, then hit other houses. Killed 57 whites in all. Put down by federal troops.

What were the three major parts of the Compromise of 1850?

-CA a free state -New Mexico/Utah territories have popular sovereignty to decide slavery -Fugitive Slave Law

Kansas-Nebraska Act

-Called for popular sovereignty in the Louisiana Purchase on slavery -Led to an intra-territorial war and the creation of two territorial governments

Compromise of 1850

-Called for popular sovereignty in the Utah and New Mexico territories -Created a fugitive slave act -Admitted California as a free state

What were the three parts of the Anaconda Plan?

-Defend Washington -Capture Richmond -Blockade southern ports -Divide the Confederacy by controlling Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.

How did slave families live and work prior to the War?

-Slavery grew because of cotton gin -Plantations: Very LARGE, used many slaves to grow staple crops. -Farms: Slaves and slaveholders worked side-by-side. Usually very small.

Aftermath of Compromise of 1850

-The South threatened secession because its rights were not accepted. -The Fugitive Slave Law was unpopular in the North.

The North's advantages over the South at the outbreak of the Civil War included all of the following

-a more extensive railroad network -naval supremacy -more substantial industrial resources EXCEPT: greater agreement over war aims

What were the major causes of the civil war?

1. Economic and social differences between the North and the South 2. States versus federal rights 3. The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents

Antietam

1862 battle in Maryland that saw more than 20,000 casualties. Union won, but failed to chase reeling Confederates

Ulysses S. Grant

18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War

Dred Scott

A slave who sued for his freedom because he was taken to a free territory

Robert E. Lee

American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War

George Fitzhugh

Believed that slavery was more humane than slave labor

Wilmot Proviso

Called for slavery to be allowed in Texas, but nowhere else in territories gained from Mexico

William Lloyd Garrison

Called for the immediate, uncompensated emancipation of slaves

John Bell

Constitutional Union party candidate in 1860 presidential election

Jefferson Davis

Elected president of the Confederacy

Slavery is mentioned in the Gettysburg Address.

False

The Emancipation Proclamation took effect in 1865

False

In the 1850s, the South differed from the North in that the South had

Fewer European immigrants

Sherman's March

In an act of total war, this event saw much damage to civilian targets in the South

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the United States during the first quarter of the 19th century?

Invention of the cotton gin

What was the Republican Party committed to doing with regards to slavery?

Its main point of view was the prevention of slavery in the territories, NOT abolition.

Nat Turner

Led a rebellion that killed 57 whites

In the 1864 election cartoon, what path did the author state was the better one to take?

Lincoln's path of continued war

Gettysburg

Longest battle of the war, taking place in July 1863. Lee lost 1/3 of his army

Merrimack vs. Monitor

Major 1862 naval battle, fought to a draw

Bull Run

Major early Confederate victory in 1861, largely due to the efforts of Stonewall Jackson

What slave states DID NOT secede?

Maryland and Kentucky

In the 1864 election cartoon, what did the author suggest Britain and France preferred the Union take?

McClellan's path of peace

All of the following slave states remained in the Union throughout the balance of the Civil War

Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky NOT: Tennessee

Sojourner Truth

Mixed both abolitionism and feminism

The Dred Scott decision established which of the following principles?

National legislation could not stop the spread of slavery into the territories

What was different in the North and the South as the war began?

North had 23 states instead of 11. North had 92.6% of Nation's manufacturing. South had labor force (slave)

Stephen Douglas

Northern Democrat candidate in 1860 presidential election

The Republican Party originated in the mid-1850s as a sectional party committed to which of the following?

Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories

In 1861, the primary reason the North went to war with the South was to

Preserve the Union

American Colonization Society

Proposed returning freed slaves to Africa

Frederick Douglas

Published the "North Star," an abolitionist newspaper

John Brown

Raided a federal arsenal to arm a slave rebellion, but it was put down and he was executed, becoming an antislavery martyr

The Kansas-Nebraska Act heightened the sectional crisis because it

Repealed the Missouri Compromise

Abraham Lincoln

Republican candidate in 1860 presidential election

John Fremont

Republican presidential candidate in 1856

Which of the following states the principle of popular sovereignty as practiced in the antebellum period?

Settlers in a given territory have the sole right to determine whether or not slavery will be permitted there

Which of the following was the first state to secede from the Union?

South Carolina

John Breckenridge

Southern Democrat candidate in 1860 presidential election

According to the South Carolina declaration of secession, all of the following documents gave the state the ability to secede EXCEPT

The Articles of Confederation

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s?

The Fugitive Slave law

Which region was most dependent on slave labor in the antebellum years?

The Lower South: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas

Emancipation proclamation

The announcement made by President Lincoln during the Civil War on September 22, 1862, emancipating all black slaves in states still engaged in rebellion against the Union. Although implementation was strictly beyond Lincoln's powers, the declaration turned the war into a crusade against slavery. It went into effect on January 1, 1863

Appomattox Court House

The surrender was signed here in 1865

What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Addres

To dedicate the Gettysburg battlefield

This group assisted slaves in escaping to Canada after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

Underground Railroad

Vicksburg

When the Confederates surrendered this city after a Union siege, it allowed the Union to control the Mississippi

The call for "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is most associated with the position of

William Lloyd Garrison

James Buchanan

Won the presidential election of 1856 and was the 15th president

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote an antislavery novel that was the best-selling book (besides the Bible) in the United States in the 1850s

Popular sovereignty

a pre-Civil War doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there

What was the final event that caused South Carolina to secede?

a sectional party enacted a "President of the United States whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery"

The Emancipation Proclamation did all of the following EXCEPT

called for Union soldiers to assist freed slaves in going to Canada

South Carolina, in declaring its intention to secede, said the northern states were not fulfilling their constitutional obligations in all of the following EXCEPT

enacting the Crittenden Compromise

Fort Sumter

first battle in the Civil War

According to South Carolina's declaration of secession, the Declaration of Independence made South Carolina and the other states in the Union ____

free and independent states

The Emancipation Proclamation ...

freed only slaves in the territories currently in rebellion

The majority of southern whites owned how many slaves

none

Dred Scott v. Sandford

the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.

The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to

the natural population increase of American-born slaves

What did Lincoln state would be the best way to honor those who died at Gettysburg?

to ensure that government for the people, of the people and by the people will not perish from the earth