chapter 4 US History

What group is an example of Northerners who wanted to keep slavery out of the territories but did not have positive feelings toward African Americans?

Free-Soilers

Stephen A Douglas

U.S. Senator who debated Abraham Lincoln on slavery in the territories

Which is the best word to describe Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction, which Johnson largely followed?

lenient

Why did new Republican governments in the South after the Civil War have difficulty?

many white Southerners refused to accept equal rights for blacks

In which of the following areas did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?

military leadership

Which of the following does not describe the battle of Gettysburg?

the battle that cut the Confederacy into 2

Hiram Revels

the first African-American U.S. Senator

Which of the following quotations is from the Battle of Gettysburg?

"The world will note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here"

Which of the following was not a provision of the Reconstruction act of 1867?

All African-American families would receive 40 acres and a mule

What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott decisions?

Being in free territory did not make a slave free

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

California was admitted as a free state

Which action showed that the President Andrew Johnson did not support greater rights for African Americans in the South?

He vetoed the Freedman's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1866

What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

It gave a 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 the idea of invading the North

Charles Summer

Radial Republican leader during Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln

Republican who won the presidency in 1860

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 didn't

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

The residents of the territory

Emancipation Proclamation

abolished slavery in the North

Harriet Tubman

conductor on the Underground Railroad

Which was not part of the Union's three-part plan to conquer the South?

draft freed slaves to fight for the Union

Robert E Lee

general who surrendered the Confederate Army to Union forces

Ulysses S Grant

general who won at Vicksburg and became the commander of all Union forces

John C. Calhoun

led the fight against the Compromise of 1850

William Tecumseh Sherman

the Union general who burned a path of destruction through Georgia

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 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 Harper's Ferry?

to seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising

Harriet Beecher Stowe

wrote a novel that incited protests against the fugitive slave act