U.S. History: The Union in Peril
The strife in "Bleeding Kansas" was associated with a conflict between _________________ and _________________
Free soilers and slavery supporters
What is the message in this political cartoon?
Freed men are intimidated by opponents of Reconstruction
Which Civil War battle was significant in that it halted Robert E. Lee's invasion of the north?
Gettysburg
Which abolitionist was known as "Black Moses"
Harriet Tubman
What was John Brown's aim at Harper's Ferry?
To seize a federal arsenal and start a slave revolt
By what name was General Scott's strategy known?
The Anaconda Plan
What is the best contemporary definition of a scalawag?
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War
Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation was announced after the Battle of...
Antietam/Sharpsburg
The Supreme Court declared in the Dred Scott decision...
Being a slave in a free state does NOT make you free
The aim of total war as practiced by Generals Grant and Sherman was to...
Break the Southern people's will to fight
"Stonewall" Jackson earned his nickname here, and this resulted in a Confederate victory
Bull Run
Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850?
California was admitted as a free state
Which of these was a characteristic of the South that contributed to its military strength
Capable military leadership
These members of the Republican Party left their homes after the Civil War and went South
Carpetbaggers
Robert E.Lee was a key general in what conflict?
Civil War
Henry Clay presented a series of resolutions, which later would be called _________________
Compromise of 1850
The main purpose of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was to...
Destroy the South's strategic and economic capacity to fight
The majority of Civil War deaths came as a result of...
Disease and infection
What was not a part of the Union's 3 part plan to conquer the South?
Draft freed slaves to fight for the Union
In the Supreme Court ruling against _________________, slaves were defined as property
Dred Scott
The Dred Scott decision
Encouraged slaveholder's resistance to abolitionist activist
To curb the violence of the KKK, Congress passed the...
Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871
The 1862 battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was MOST significant because it was...
First battle fought between ironclad ships in the Civil War
Under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a white person in the North could be imprisoned or fined...
For helping a slave escape
Who was the first African-American U.S. Senator?
Hiram Revels
General William T. Sherman's "March to Sea" was important to the Union war effort because...
Important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply
What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It gave a moral purpose to the Civil War
Which of the following abolished slavery in the U.S.?
The 13th Amendment
How did the artist choose to portray the contribution of John Brown to the U.S. History?
John Brown opposed slavery
This law allowed territories to decide the fate of slavery based on popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Which word best describes Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
Lenient
Abraham Lincoln's biggest objective in the Civil War was to...
Save the Union
Farmers who agreed to give most of their harvest back to the landowners are...
Sharecroppers
What was Harriet Beecher Stowe's BIGGEST role in the Antebellum U.S?
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852
During the first two years of the American Civil War, the war in the East was marked by...
Significant Confederate victories
This helped Americans to realize that the U.S. was a single nation, not individual states
The Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg was considered a turning point in the Civil War because...
The South gave up the idea of invading the North
Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?
The residents of the territory
With the fall of Port Hudson and _________________, the Union achieved its goal of cutting the C.S.A. in two
Vicksburg
Which Union general is credited with using "Total War" in the deep south?
William Tecumseh Sherman
