Download US History Unit 2 Exam Civil War: Events leading up to the Civil War

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US History Unit 2 Exam
Civil War: Events leading up to the Civil War, Battles of the Civil War & Reconstruction
Multiple Choice:
1. What was the purpose of compromises like the Missouri Compromise?
a. Stop slavery from spreading
b. Avoid going to war over slavery
c. Prevent Native Americans from returning to their land
d. Keep territories from becoming states.
2. When people vote directly on the issue of slavery, it was called
a. Special election
b. Compromise
c. Popular sovereignty
d. Initiative
3. The Dred Scott decision said that
a. Slaves were citizens
b. Slaves were free in free territories
c. Slaves had rights under the Constitution
d. Slaves were not free in free states
4. South Carolina’s first attempt to secede was over the issue of
a. President Lincoln’s election
b. National bank
c. slavery
d. tariff of “abominations”
5. What principle did South Carolina use to justify secession at the start of the Civil War?
a. Federalism
b. States’ rights
c. Slavery was a property right
d. Popular sovereignty
6. What was the result of the Emancipation Proclamation?
a. Slaves were freed in the North
b. The goal of the war changed to ending slavery
c. The goal of the war changed to preserving the Union
d. Lincoln won popularity in the South.
7. The importance of the Battle of Gettysburg was
a. Lee’s victory gave the South a lift
b. The battle was the turning point in the war
c. Lincoln issued plans for the Freedman’s Bureau
d. Britain no longer supported the South.
8. President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans after the war included
a. Punishment for the South
b. Military occupation of the South
c. Kind or lenient treatment of the South
d. Changes in the boundaries of southern states
9. What did the 14th amendment accomplish?
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a.
b.
c.
d.
United the country
Gave all African Americans the right to vote
Created the poll tax
Gave African American citizenship
10. What is the purpose of the literacy test?
a. Make sure all voters could read
b. Improve the education in the South
c. Prevents African Americans from voting
d. Improve the qualifications of candidates
11. The impact of the Black codes was to
a. Bring law and order to the South
b. Restrict freedom of former slaves
c. Integrate the races
d. Limit the activities of Confederate leaders
12. The result of tenant farming and sharecropping was
a. More opportunities for freed slaves
b. Economic servitude of former slaves
c. More land in production
d. Improved farming techniques
13. What was the result of the South’s attack on Fort Sumter?
a. The South won support for its cause
b. More states left the Union
c. The North won an early victory
d. The North united against the South
14. Whose plan for Reconstruction did Andrew Johnson support?
a. Radical Republican’s plan
b. The South’s plan
c. Abraham Lincoln’s plan
d. The military’s plan
15. Who helped President Lincoln organize the first African American regiment (the 54th)?
a. Robert E. Lee
b. Ulysses S. Grant
c. John Brown
d. Frederick Douglass
16. Who was the abolitionist who tried to arm a slave rebellion at Harper’s Ferry?
a. Sojourner Truth
b. Frederick Douglass
c. William Lloyd Garrison
d. John Brown
17. How did white Southerners get around the literacy test and the poll tax?
a. Opened more schools
b. Grandfather clause
c. Jim Crow laws
d. Freedman’s Bureau
18. How did Radical Republicans respond to Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
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a.
b.
c.
d.
With a standing ovation in Congress
By passing Johnson’s Plan
By starting the impeachment process
With support for the Freedman’s Bureau
19. Union General who marched through Georgia burning everything in his path?
a. William Sherman
b. Robert E. Lee
c. Thomas Jackson
d. Ulysses S. Grant
20. Organization set up to help former slaves adjust to being free
a. Underground RR
b. Reconstruction
c. Jim Crow laws
d. Freedman’s Bureau
Matching Part I: Write A for North and B for South
21. More cash in bank
22. Strong military leadership
23. Larger population
24. Fighting a defensive war
25. More railroads
26. Strong civilian or political leadership
27. Fighting to preserve way of life
28. Greater ability to replace soldiers and supplies
Matching Part II:
A. South Carolina B. Secession C. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
E. Compromise of 1850
F. Missouri Compromise
D. Underground Railroad
G. Virginia
29. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe arousing anti-slavery sentiment in the North
30. Taking states out of the Union
31. Network of sympathizers who helped thousands of enslaved persons flee north
32. California entered as a free state, rest of territories in Mexican Cession by election
33. First state to state to cede from the Union
34. State where the Confederate capital was established
A. Reconstruction
B. Feudalism
C. blockade
D. Insurrection
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E. Jim Crow Laws
F. 13th amendment
G. Harper’s Ferry
35. Site of John Brown’s raid that was a turning point for the South
36. Rebellion
37. Abolished slavery
38. Rebuilding of the South
39. Laws in South making segregation legal
40. One of the North’s goals; to cut off trade along east
Matching Part III (1/2 pt)
A. Sojourner Truth B. Abraham Lincoln C. Robert E. Lee
D. Jefferson Davis
E. Thomas Jefferson
F. Harriet Tubman G. Ulysses S. Grant
41. Union General who became Supreme Commander of Northern troops in 1864
42. President of Confederacy
43. Conductor of the Underground Railroad
44. Commander of all Southern forces
45. Author of the Gettysburg Address
A. Appomattox
B. Sherman’s March to the Sea
C. Bull Run D. Antietam
E. Fort Sumter
F. Vicksburg
G. Chancellorsville
46. Bloodiest day of the war; Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation
47. Surrender here starts the War
48. North controls the Mississippi River with this win
49. First major battle, South won
50. Lee surrendered here
A. Carpet baggers
B. sharecropping
C. Border Ruffians D. poll tax
F. integration
G. scalawag
E. tenant farming
51. Southerner who helped Radicals during Reconstruction
52. Owner of the land provides everything needed to be planted; worker receives percentage of crop
53. Owner rents out land; worker provides everything else
54. Northerners who came South and took advantage of conditions in the South after the war
55. Payment required to vote