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
