Flagg History Test Study Guide (4th Quarter)

Who opened Hartford School for the deaf in Connecticut in 1817?

Thomas Gallaudet

What was the Union goal in the West?

To control the Mississippi River

Which of the following is the systematic destruction of an entire land?

Total War

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.

True

Elizabeth Blackwell graduated first in her medical school class after having been turned down by several other schools.

True

For the North, the primary goal was to preserve the Union.

True

In 1839 Massachusetts founded the first-state supported school to train teachers.

True

In the 1840s, students learned to become teachers at normal schools.

True

Josiah T. Walls was Florida's first African American congressman.

True

Many Reconstruction-era Democrats supported the Klu Klux Klan.

True

Most newly freed African American voters supported the Republican Party.

True

Opposition to abolitionism sometimes erupted into violence.

True

President Lincoln was assassinated while attending a play.

True

The Gettysburg Address was given at a ceremony to dedicate a cemetery.

True

The Grimke sisters grew up in a slaveholding family but became strong opponents of slavery.

True

The Know-Nothings chose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the 1856 presidential election.

True

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.

True

The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

True

Ulysses S. Grant

Union general

General Grant led a 47-day siege against which city?

Vicksburg, Mississippi

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Voters choose whether to allow slavery; popular sovereignty

Freeport Doctorine

Voters could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws that protected the rights of slaveholders

Peace Democrats

Wanted an immediate end to the Civil War through negotiation

Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called...

carpetbaggers

The South expected support from Britain and France because these two European nations relied on the South for...

cotton

In 1867 states that had not ratified the Fourteenth Amendment were required to...

form new governments

To keep poor people and African Americans from voting, many Southern states enforced...

poll taxes

Abolitionists like Lucretia Mott helped organize...

the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

The Wilmot Proviso called for...

the banning of slavery in any lands the United States might acquire from Mexico

¨Bleeding Kansas¨

An attack on Lawrence, Kansas

Lynching

Angry mobs killing people by hanging them

Clara Barton

Became famous for her work with wounded soldiers

Which of these were laws designated to limit the freedom of the newly freed African Americans?

Black Codes

Because the war disrupted their supply of cotton, the South expected support from which two countries?

Britain and France

What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?

Civil War

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

Confedarate spy

Compromise of 1850

Divided into parts; contained the Fugitive Slave Act

Who was the schoolteacher who helped educate the public about the poor living conditions of the mentally ill?

Dorothea Dix

Which of the following relates to a Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Constitution protected slavery?

Dred Scott v. Sanford

An efficient railway network was one of the South's greatest strengths.

False

Lincoln believed that slavery was moral.

False

Proslavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.

False

Stonewall Jackson was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.

False

The 54th Massachusetts was an all-female regiment.

False

The Grimke sisters spoke out against abolition.

False

The Ten Percent Plan required ten percent of each state's voters to swear loyalty to the Confederacy.

False

The Underground Railroad carried food to poor areas in the South.

False

The Wade-Davis Bill replaced the Ten Percent Plan.

False

The abolitionist Sojourner Truth was given her name by her former slaveholder.

False

From where did most Confederate and Union soldiers come?

Farms

Where was the first major battle of the Civil War?

First Battle of Bull Run

President Abraham Lincoln was shot at...

Ford's Theater

Who was the Union general that captured Fort Henry?

General Ulysses S. Grant

When Congress did not approve the suspension of Edwin Stanton, what did President Johnson do?

He fired General Stanton

How did most African Americans live in the North?

In poverty working in factories in cities

What was one of the weaknesses of the American Colonization Society?

It never stopped the growth of slavery

Why did the Union want to control the Mississippi River and its tributaries?

It would split the Confederacy in two and cut Southern supply lines

Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?

Jefferson Davis

In which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?

Kansas

John Brown

Led an attack on Lawrence, Kansas

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Loss of Fort Sumter

Why did the South suffer the most destruction during the Civil War?

Most of the fighting took place in the South

Ulysses S. Grant's assault resulted in a nine-month siege on which railway center?

Petersburg

What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternate to the Missouri Compromise?

Popular Sovereignty (Kansas-Nebraska Act)

Henry David Thoreau

Practiced civil disobedience

Which position did Franklin Pierce begin holding in 1853?

President

The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called...

Reconstruction

Roger B. Taney

Said that Congress has no power over slavery

Which of these was provided for in Florida's ¨black codes¨?

Segregated churches

Segregation

Separation of races

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Slavery

What city, Florida´s capital, remained under Confederate control during the Civil War?

Tallahassee

Which Southern state immediately ratified the Fourteenth Amendment?

Tennessee

James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state?

Texas

Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?

The 15th Amendment

When President Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act, what did Congress do?

The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Johnson

Which party did the Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers join together to form?

The Republican Party

Which definition best fits the word abolition?

The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution

36°30' North Latitude

The line that limited slavery

After relieving General McClellon of his duties, a frustrated President Lincoln watched different generals try and fail to lead the Union to victory. Who were these generals?

Ambrose Burnside and Joseph Hooker

By the end of the war, African Americans volunteers made up nearly which percentage of the Union army?

10%

Zachary Taylor

1848 Whig presidential candidate; ignored slavery

Habeas corpus

A legal process that helps ensure the government has a legal right to keep someone in jail

Bounties

A sum of money

W.E.B. Du Bois

African American civil rights leader and writer

Samuel Cornish and John Russworm started Freedom's Journal, the country's first...

African American newspaper

grandfather clause

Allows people to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction

What was the Merrimack?

An abandoned Union frigate used by the Confederacy