"Civil War Unit Test."

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Robert E. Lee joined the Confederacy because he did not want to fight against his home, family, and state.

True

Self-interest of the various sections of the United States caused differences over tariffs, slavery, and the rights of the individual states.

True

Lincoln was very pleased with the actions of his generals.

False

Which of the following are true of the Emancipation Proclamation?

It ensured that England would not support the South. Lincoln issued it to shorten the war and gain support from non-slave nations. It was issued after the battle at Antietam.

All of the following states left the Union after the battle of Fort Sumter except:

Kentucky

The author of the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was:

Harriet B. Stowe

1. the last Confederate offensive 2. the South's ironclad 3. cut communication with the South 4. gained control of all of the Mississippi River 5. led Northern forces in the West 6. an attempt to capture Maryland 7. "Stonewall" Jackson was killed 8. commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

1. Battle of Gettysburg 2. Virginia 3. Battle of Petersburg 4. Battle of Vicksburg 5. General Grant 6. Battle of Antietam 7. Battle of Chancellorsville 8. General Lee

What was the North's battle strategy?

Capture Richmond. Capture the Mississippi and divide the South in half. Blockade Southern ports.

The ________ freed all slaves in any state still in rebellion on January 1, 1863.

Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln's assassination worked in favor of the South during the Reconstruction.

False

The Doctrine of Nullification stated that the individual states did not have to obey Federal laws.

False

The Emancipation Proclamation affected the South greatly.

False

The Republican Radicals wanted the Fifteenth Amendment because they feared that with black people voting, they would lose control of Congress.

False

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was ordered to move into the Shenandoah valley to appear as if he were going to attack Richmond.

False

The Civil War began at the battle of

Fort Sumter

The battle at ----- was the last major Southern offensive and ended the possibility of the South winning the war.

Gettysburg

The South believed that it could defeat the North because the South was fighting on its own home ground.

True

The battle of ----- gave the North control of the Mississippi River.

Vicksburg

What state had its boundaries changed when the eastern counties joined the Confederacy?

Virginia

The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred when both men were running to be

a Senator

Northerners who came South for political opportunities were called:

carpetbaggers

To remove military occupation, each state had to do all of the following except:

eliminate their military forces

In the North, the Dred Scott decision was:

unpopular

Lee's campaign to take over Maryland was stopped at the battle of:

Antietam

The states' rights issue was a question of each states' relationship to:

the federal government

1. published "North Star" 2. first African slaves arrived in Jamestown 3. proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act 4. extend 36° 30' line to California 5. servitude in exchange for passage to the United States 6. struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups 7. formed to prevent spread of slavery 8. wanted slavery abolished 9. president of Confederacy 10. Harriet Beecher Stowe

1. Frederick Douglass 2. 1619 3.Stephen Douglas 4.Crittenden Compromise 5.indentured 6."Bleeding Kansas" 7.Republican Party 8.Abolitionists 9. Jefferson Davis 10.Uncle Tom's Cabin

1. prevented black people from voting 2. Lincoln's successor 3. gave black men the right to vote 4. limited the civil and economic rights of black people 5. led a slave rebellion in Virginia 6. Republicans who voted not guilty 7. Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan 8. protected the interests of freed black slaves

1. Ku Klux Klan 2. Andrew Johnson 3. Fifteenth Amendment 4. Black Codes 5. Nat Turner 6. Seven Martyrs 7. 10 per cent plan 8. Freedman's Bureau

1. a march of destruction 2. the capital of the Confederacy 3. the president of the Confederacy 4. the North's ironclad 5. captured New Orleans 6. the South gains confidence 7. the struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups 8. Lee surrenders

1. Sherman 2. Richmond 3. Jefferson Davis 4. Monitor 5. Admiral Farragut 6. Battle of Bull Run 7. "Bleeding Kansas" 8. Appomattox Court House

1. nonseceding counties in Virginia 2. President of the Confederacy 3. prohibited slavery 4. assassinated Lincoln 5. the North's ironclad ship 6. investigated conditions in the South 7. Congress's Reconstruction Act 8. made blacks citizens of the United States

1. West Virginia 2. Jefferson Davis 3. Thirteenth Amendment 4. John Wilkes Booth 5. Monitor 6. Joint Committee of 15 7. First Reconstruction Act 8. Fourteenth Amendment

Match these items. 1.wanted to establish an abolitionist republic 2. sued for his freedom 3. Underground Railroad 4. Clay's plan to end sectionalism 5. surrender began Civil War 6. won 1860 Presidential election 7. proslavery constitution in Kansas

2. Dred Scott 1. John Brown 3. Harriet Tubman 4. American Plan 5. Fort Sumter 6. Abraham Lincoln 7. Lecompton Fraud

Lee surrendered to Grant at:

Appomattox

All of the following men were candidates in the 1860 election except:

Henry Clay

All of the following states seceded from the Union after Lincoln's election except:

Missouri

The ----- wanted tariffs to protect its industries.

North

Which General captured Atlanta?

Sherman

Select N for the Northern generals and S for the Southern generals.

Sherman N Lee S Jackson S McClellan N Burnside N Grant N

The ----- felt that tariffs would hurt its trade with foreign countries.

South

The first state that Grant invaded in the West was:

Tennessee

Johnson was impeached in the House because he violated the:

Tenure of Office Act

Select those items that are true about the South's war effort:

The South hoped to receive help from England. The South planned on fighting a defensive war. The South hoped to receive help from France.

All states were readmitted to the Union by 1870.

True

England did not support the South because England realized that it needed Northern wheat more than Southern cotton.

True

Johnson's plan was unacceptable to the Radicals because it did not punish the South enough.

True

Lincoln promised the South that he would not interfere with slavery where it already existed.

True

Lincoln's election caused South Carolina to secede from the Union.

True

More emancipation societies existed in the South than in the North before 1830.

True

Preston Brooks attacked Senator Sumner with a cane because of Sumner's criticism of Senators Butler and Douglas.

True

Slaves were more profitable than indentured servants because they were permanent possessions of their masters.

True

Southerners said they needed slaves in order to maintain their economy.

True

The first Reconstruction Act divided the South into how many military districts?

five

All of the following items were part of the North's battle plan except:

gain help from foreign countries

The North had the advantage over the South in all of the following except:

generals

Allowing settlers in a territory to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not was called:

popular sovereignty

According to Lincoln's 10 percent plan, new state governments had to do all of the following except:

ratify the Fifteenth Amendment

At the peace talks held at Hampton Road, Lincoln offered peace on the following conditions:

reunion of the states emancipation of slaves

The battle of Gettysburg began when Confederate soldiers were caught looking for:

shoes

The expanding West desired all of the following except:

slavery

Slavery was criticized for all of the following reasons except:

that it Christianized the slaves


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