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Crisis of the Union Test
Multiple Choice:
1. What was Jefferson Davis’s reason for fighting defensive war of attrition?
2. Why didn’t Robert E. Lee accept invitation to command the Union troops?
3. Name the states that seceded from the Union.
4. What did the Confederate Constitution guarantee each state?
5. Who was most famous Underground Railroad conductor?
6. What were the provisions of the Wilmot Proviso?
7. Why did Lincoln want to make sure that Maryland did not secede?
8. What was Crittenden’s Compromise?
9. Why did Northerners go to Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
10. Why did people move to California in 1849?
11. What were the main goals of the Radical Republican Reconstruction plan?
12. What did Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan call for?
13. When did Reconstruction end?
14. What was the original goal of the Ku Klux Klan?
15. Before electing people to Congress under the Republican Reconstruction plan, each state
had to do what?
16. What were the terms of Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan?
17. What amendment banned slavery in the US?
18. What were the terms of the Emancipation Proclamation?
19. What were the proposed ideas of the Anaconda Plan?
20. What advantages did the North have over the South?
Matching and Fill in the Blank:
The following terms will be used for either the matching or fill in the blank section: Tenure of
Office Act, scalawags, carpetbaggers, Military Reconstruction Act, Popular sovereignty, Ku
Klux Klan, Fourteenth Amendment, Enforcement Acts, black codes, Fifteenth Amendment, Civil
Rights Act of 1866, Appomattox Courthouse, amnesty, Jefferson Davis, and Pickett’s Charge.
Short Answer:
1. What were the results of the Compromise of 1850?
2. List the three parts of the Union strategy called the Anaconda Plan to defeat the
Confederate Army.
3. List the three things that Grant allowed the Confederate soldiers after the surrender by
Lee at Appomattox.