APUSH Test 6
Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that
Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort
To achieve its independence, the Confederacy had to
fight the invading Union army to a draw
The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it
probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy
To many Northerner's, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that
the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War and the North had sacrificed its young men in vain
The Southern cause was weakened by
the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed ran contrary to the vision of a tight, well-knit central government held by its president, Jefferson Davis
The political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated
the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction
For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states' quick restoration to the Union was that
with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics and Democrats could possibly regain control of Congress in the near future
When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves in
Confederate states still in rebellion against the United States
The political group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the
Copperheads
Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the "Redeemer" administrations?
Establishment of a public school system
The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open in February 1866 was
Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau
As a result of the Union fighting to a draw militarily at Antietam Creek with Robert E. Lee's Confederate army
Lincoln was now prepared to issue his Emancipation Proclamation
Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction
The formation of the Ku Klux Klan
Which of the following best describes the situation of freedman in the decade following the Civil War
The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters
The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its
economy, particularly its limited manufacturing capacity and inferior railroad network
The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as
a secret terrorist organization seeking to subjugate and terrorize blacks in the South through violent means
President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction
aimed at swift restoration of the Southern states after a few modest political conditions were met by the Southern states
Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of Civil War
caused whole communities of Southern blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi to migrate westward to territories and states such as Kansas for better job opportunities
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed
citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves
General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to
deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement and encourage foreign intervention on behalf of the South
The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his
dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act
The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its
economy, particularly its greater manufacturing capacity and more efficient and extensive railroad network
The main purpose of the Black Codes was to
ensure a stable and subservient labor supply
The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it
forestalled the possibility of European intervention
Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that
freed slaves must be granted the right to vote
During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the
granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods
As a result of the Civil War, the Northern economy
greatly expanded its industrial and technological productivity
The problems that President Abraham Lincoln experienced in conducting the Civil War were less harmful than those experience by Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, partly because the Union
had a long-established and fully recognized government
In invading Maryland, one of General Lee's key objectives was to
inspire the Border States, particularly the wavering Maryland, to join the Confederacy and its secessionist cause
As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of
more talented military leaders
In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William Seward achieved the Johnson administration's greatest success in foreign relations when he
purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised
rapid, straightforward, and readily achievable readmission of Southern states into the Union
Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by the
ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
In Lincoln's attempts to preserve the Union, he did all of the following questionable actions as president except
refused to implement a draft, or conscription law, during the war
The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do all of the following except
relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters
Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery
revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies
The Border States offered all of the following strategic advantages except
shipbuilding factories
During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the
spread of sharecropping
Which of the following was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War
the political and legal status of former Confederate states
One reason that the British did not try to break the Union blockade of the South during the Civil War was that
they feared losing Northern grain shipments
Most working people in Britain sided with the North because
they had develop a class consciousness and moral revulsion about the evils of slavery and hoped that the Civil War would eventually extinguish slavery in the South and the western territories
All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except
they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry
Andrew Johnson had been put on Lincoln's ticket as vice president in his second term
to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners
In order to persuade the Border States to remain the Union, President Lincoln
used legally dubious methods including the declaration of martial law in Maryland and the deployment of Union soldiers in a local civil war in Missouri
Aside from ending slavery, blacks enlisted into the Union Army because they
wanted to prove their manhood and strengthen their postwar claim to full American citizenship
In 1861, the North went to war with the South primarily to
preserve the Union
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
After the Peninsula Campaign, Union strategy included all of the following except
striking deep into the Confederacy via the Appalachian Mountain chain
The goals of the Ku Klux Klan included all of the following except
support the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871
Napoleon III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of
the Monroe Doctrine