Key Figures
Jefferson Davis was chosen as president of the Confederacy because he was
A. The most outspoken of the radical secessionists
B. Was a moderate who had extensive military and political experience
C. The only person who wanted to assume the office
D. Nephew of George Washington and would therefore make the Confederacy seem more respectable
B. Was a moderate who had extensive military and political experience
The single bloodiest day in American history took place at what Maryland battlefield?
A. Shiloh
B. Antietam
C. Chancellorsville
D. Wilderness
B. Antietam
The Thirteenth Amendment
A. Finally gave African Americans the right to vote
B. Ended slavery
C. Made former slaves citizens
B. Ended slavery
The subject of Charles Sumner’s speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was
A. The Dred Scott Decision
B. Bleeding Kansas
C. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
D. The hanging of John Brown
B. Bleeding Kansas
At the beginning of the Civil War most Northerners
A. Agreed they were fighting to preserve the Union
B. Were determined to free the slaves
C. Were indifferent to the issues and avoided the draft
D. Felt that the South should be allowed to secede
A. Agreed they were fighting to preserve the Union
Which of the following was Abraham Lincoln’s view on the extension of slavery into the territories?
A. Slavery was unconstitutional in the states and in the territories
B. Slavery was constitutional in the slave states but it should not be allowed to extend
C. into the territories
D. Congress did not have the authority to prohibit the expansion of slavery
E. He had no opinion of the subject
B. Slavery was constitutional in the slave states but it should not be allowed to extend
The Anaconda Plan was
A. General Winfield Scott’s strategy for encircling and squeezing the south into submission
B. A congressional design for building dams and flood controls on the Anaconda River
C. The Confederate battle plan for the attack at Bull Run
D. Secretary of State William Seward’s program for insuring the loyalty of the Anaconda Indians during the war
A. General Winfield Scott’s strategy for encircling and squeezing the south into submission
Under Congressional Reconstruction, Southern states were required to
A. Organize the Republican Party
B. Ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
C. Jail former Confederate leaders
D. Provide land and education for former slaves
B. Ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
The Kansas-Nebraska Act did all of the following except
A. Divided the Nebraska Territory into 2 territories
B. Represented the interests of the southern faction of the Democratic Party
C. Repealed the Compromise of 1850
D. Repealed the Missouri Compromise
C. Repealed the Compromise of 1850
South Carolina attacked Ft. Sumter when
A. The Union Navy blockaded Charleston Harbor
B. Lincoln announced his plan to peacefully resupply the fort
C. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton declared the seceded state “in rebellion”
D. Soldiers from the fort fired on local fishermen
B. Lincoln announced his plan to peacefully resupply the fort
John Brown was noted for all except which of the following?
A. Killing unarmed proslavery farmers in the civil war in Bleeding Kansas
B. Attempting to incite a slave rebellion in Virginia
C. Coining the phrase “the irrepressible conflict” to explain the coming of the Civil War
D. Dying as a “martyr to freedom”
C. Coining the phrase “the irrepressible conflict” to explain the coming of the Civil War
At the battle of Seven Days, Confederate armies prevented George McClellan from capturing which vital southern city?
A. Atlanta
B. Charleston
C. Richmond
D. New Orleans
C. Richmond
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
A. A renewal of the Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South
B. The withdrawal of federal troops from the South
C. The election of a Democrat to the presidency
D. Passage of the Wade-Davis Bill
B. The withdrawal of federal troops from the South
The Tenure of Office Act
A. Angered Congressmen by limiting their terms to two years
B. Stated that a president could only hold office while in good standing
C. Required Senate approval before the president could remove a Cabinet member
D. None of the above
C. Required Senate approval before the president could remove a Cabinet member
The Bourbons believed in all of the following except
A. Making the South more like the North
B. Cleaning up corruption in the government
C. Low taxes
D. Fewer services such as public education
A. Making the South more like the North
The subject of Charles Sumner’s speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was
A. The Dred Scott Decision
B. Bleeding Kansas
C. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
D. The hanging of John Brown
B. Bleeding Kansas
The appointment of _________ to command Confederate armies in Virginia marked a turning point in the Civil War.
A. Stonewall Jackson
B. J.E.B. Stuart
C. Robert E. Lee
D. Joseph Johnston
C. Robert E. Lee
The scalawags were
A. Northern Republican leaders who came South
B. Southern whites who collaborated with the North
C. White Southern Democrats who redeemed their governments from the North
D. None of the above
B. Southern whites who collaborated with the North
The Congressional Act that opposed the extension of slavery into any territory ceded by Mexico was the
A. Ostend Manifesto
B. Wilmot Proviso
C. Crittenden Compromise
D. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
B. Wilmot Proviso
The violence of Bleeding Kansas involved clashes between
A. Blacks and whites
B. Residents of Nebraska who invaded Kansas
C. Proslavery and antislavery groups
D. White settlers and American Indians
C. Proslavery and antislavery groups
The man most often associated with expressing and applying the psychological aspects of “total war” is
A. Robert E. Lee
B. George McClellan
C. William T. Sherman
D. Ulysses S. Grant
C. William T. Sherman
Two major battles of the Civil War fought on Union soil were
A. Shiloh and Chancellorsville
B. Bull Run and Vicksburg
C. Gettysburg and Antietam
D. Peninsula Campaign and Fredericksburg
C. Gettysburg and Antietam
All of the following were true of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 except
A. They divided ten southern states into five military districts.
B. They required that ex-Confederate states ratify the 14th amendment
C. They were the result of a compromise between Johnson and the Republicans in Congress
D. They disfranchised less than 10 percent of the white voters in the South.
C. They were the result of a compromise between Johnson and the Republicans in Congress
The Twenty Negro Law
A. Replaced the three-fifths rule as the method of counting slaves for representation purposes
B. Gave a draft exemption for one white man on each plantation that owned at least 20 slaves
C. Provided that no more than 20 Negroes a week could be liberated by the Union Army
D. Assigned free blacks and fugitive slaves to white military units in groups of 20 or more
B. Gave a draft exemption for one white man on each plantation that owned at least 20 slaves
Initially, the Confederacy claimed to be fighting
A. In defense of slavery
B. For liberty
C. For the extension of slavery
D. To invade the north
B. For liberty