apush unit 6 quizzes

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"

republican candidate in 1860 presidential election:

abraham lincoln

proposed returning freed slaves to africa:

american colonization society

1862 battle in maryland that saw more than 20,000 casualties. union won, but failed to chase reeling confederates:

antietam

the surrender was signed here in 1865:

appomattox courthouse

major early confederate victory in 1861, largely due to the efforts of stonewall jackson:

bull run

the emancipation proclamation did all of the following EXCEPT:

called for union soldiers to assist freed slaves in going to canada

admitted california as a free state:

compromise of 1850

called for popular sovereignty in the utah and new mexico territories:

compromise of 1850

created a fugitive slave act:

compromise of 1850

all of the following were part of the union's anaconda plan EXCEPT:

defend its own soil and hope for an alliance with britain

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

dred scott

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

true or false: slavery is mentioned in the gettysburg address.

false

true or 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

first battle in the civil war:

fort sumter

published the "north star," an abolitionist newspaper:

frederick douglass

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

believed that slavery was more humane than slave labor:

george fitzhugh

longest battle of the war, taking place in july 1863. lee lost 1/3 of his army:

gettysburg

the north's advantages over the south at the outbreak of the civil war included all of the following EXCEPT:

greater agreement over war aims

wrote an antislavery novel that was the best-selling book (besides the bible) in the united states in the 1850s:

harriet beecher stowe

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

all of the following statements about the emancipation proclamation are true EXCEPT:

it freed all american slaves, including those in border states that remained in the union

won the presidential election of 1856 and was the 15th president:

james buchanan

elected president of the confederacy:

jefferson davis

constitutional union party candidate in 1860 presidential election:

john bell

southern democrat candidate in 1860 presidential election:

john breckinridge

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

john brown

republican presidential candidate in 1856:

john fremont

called for popular sovereignty in the louisiana purchase on slavery:

kansas-nebraska act

led to an intra-territorial war and the creation of two territorial governments:

kansas-nebraska act

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

lincoln's path of continued war

in the 1864 election cartoon, what did the author suggest britain and france preferred the union take?

mcclellan's path of peace

major 1862 naval battle, fought to a draw:

merrimack v. monitor

banned slavery north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes latitude in the louisiana purchase:

missouri compromise

made maine a free state, missouri, a slave state:

missouri compromise

led a rebellion that killed 57 whites:

nat turner

The dred scott decision established which of the following principles?

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

the majority of southern whites owned how many slaves:

none

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

the kansas-nebraska act heightened the sectional crisis because it:

repealed the missouri compromise

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

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

sherman's march

mixed both abolitionism and feminism:

sojourner truth

which of the following was the first state to secede from the union?

south carolina

northern democrat candidate in 1860 presidential election:

stephen douglass

all of the following slave states remained in the union throughout the balance of the civil war EXCEPT:

tennessee

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, and texas

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 was the purpose of the gettysburg address?

to dedicate the gettysburg battlefield

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

this group assisted slaves in escaping to canada after the passage of the fugitive slave act:

underground railroad

when the confederates surrendered this city after a union siege, it allowed the union to control the mississippi:

vicksburg

called for the immediate, uncompensated emancipation of slaves:

william lloyd garrison

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

william lloyd garrison

called for slavery to be allowed in texas, but nowhere else in territories gained from mexico:

wilmot proviso