Unit 5

Which one of the following slave states remained in the United States throughout the Civil War? *

Maryland

Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision? *

National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories

During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party took which of the following positions on slavery? *

Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states

Which of the following was NOT true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? *

It was overturned by the Dred Scott decision

Which of these agreements was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850, which kept the Union together? *

California was admitted as a slave state

Which of the following was the most serious hardship encountered by soldiers on both sides of the Civil War? *

Disease

What made the Ostend Manifesto so controversial? *

It was a secret plan by the United States to buy or take Cuba and expand slavery

Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina? *

The election of 1860

Which of the following statements was NOT an argument against the Fugitive Slave Act? *

The law violated the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Prior to the attack on Fort Sumter, which state was NOT part of the confederacy? *

Virginia

Initially in doubt, Lincoln's reelection was ultimately secured as voting day neared in 1864 by

a series of Union military victories.

The primary weakness of General George McClellan as a military commander was his *

excessive caution and reluctance to use his troops in battle

The battle at Antietam is considered a decisive moment in the Civil War for all of the following reasons EXCEPT *

it marked the advent of ironclad ships.

General William Tecumseh Sherman is most remembered for his *

march to the sea.

Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because *

northerners' celebration of Brown as a martyr seemed to indicate their support for slave insurrection

The biggest challenge Confederate president Jefferson Davis faced was *

ongoing tension between states' rights and the need for a unified central government

The Emancipation Proclamation freed *

only slaves in the Confederacy

The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of which policy for the territories? *

popular sovereignty

In the beginning, President Lincoln's mission in the Civil War was to... *

preserve the Union.

In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party *

split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate