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Unit 4: Reading Quiz 2
Name:______________________________
Sentence Completion, Part 1: Complete the sentences using the correct term from the word bank.
In a series of famous debates, (1)___________________ proposed popular sovereignty as a way to limit slavery’s expansion, while
(2)_________________ argued that slavery was immoral and could only be stopped through a Constitutional amendment. (B.2.b)
Following Lincoln’s election and the failed Crittenden Amendments, South Carolina led six other states in seceding from the Union.
In February 1861, delegates from these states formed the Confederate States of America, or (3)___________________, and elected
former senator (4)________________ as their president. (B.2.b)
On April 12, 1861, confederate forces began a 34-hour bombardment of (5)_______________. The first shots of the Civil War had
been fired. (B.3.a)
The Union strategy to prevent the flow of supplies through a blockade of land and sea, to split the Confederacy in two at the
Mississippi River, and to capture the Confederate capitol at Richmond, VA was called the (6)_______________. (B.3.a)
The draw at (7)____________ allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation proclamation, changing the course of war, while the Union
victory at (8)____________ allowed them to control the Mississippi River, and split the Confederacy in half. (B.3.a & b.)
Word Bank
A. Vicksburg
B. Stephen Douglass
C. Anaconda Plan
D. Fort Sumter
F. Abraham Lincoln
G. Jefferson Davis
H. Gettysburg
E. Confederacy
I. Antietam
J. Shiloh
Multiple Choice, Part 2: Circe the letter of the best answer to each question
9.
What was the final major legislative effort to prevent
the Civil War? (B.2.b)
a. The Compromise of 1850
b. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
c. The Missouri Compromise
d. The proposed Crittenden Amendments
10. With the statement, “A house divided against itself
cannot stand,” President Lincoln directly addressed
what issue? (B.3.b)
a. Civil rights
b. Political campaigns
c. Secession
d. Statehood
11. Which of the following would have been most likely
to support the Confederate cause during the Civil
War? (B.3.a)
a. A New York carpetbagger
b. A Virginia abolitionist
c. An Alabama cotton farmer
d. An Ohio Copperhead
12. From earliest to latest, which chronology of events is
correct? (B.2.b)
a. South Carolina secession; John Brown’s
raid; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Missouri
Compromise
b. John Brown’s raid; South Carolina
secession; Missouri Compromise; KansasNebraska Act
c. Missouri Compromise; Kansas-Nebraska
Act; John Brown’s raid; South Carolina
secession
d. Kansas-Nebraska Act; Missouri
Compromise; South Carolina secession;
John Brown’s raid
13. What major advantage did the Confederacy possess
at the outset of the Civil War? (B.3.a)
a. Numerous foreign allies
b. Abundant natural resources
c. More sophisticated weaponry
d. More capable military leaders
14. Study this illustration rendered at the outset of the
Civil War. What did the artist attempt to depict in
this drawing? (B.3.a)
18. In response to Horace Greeley’s criticism that he was
not doing enough to assist slaves in the South,
President Lincoln wrote:
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the
Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I
would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the
slaves I would do it; …I have here stated my purpose
according to my view of official duty; and I intend no
modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that
all men everywhere could be free.”
a.
b.
c.
d.
A water and land route to Missouri from
Washington, D.C.
A union military strategy against the
Confederacy
The threat posed to the Union by the states
in rebellion
The disproportionate number of
Confederate states
15. What innovation had the greatest impact on military
tactics during the Civil War? (B.3.a)
a. The camera
b. The cannon
c. The ironclad
d. The rifle
16. Which of the following goals did President Lincoln
hold throughout the Civil War? (B.3.b)
a. Punish the Confederacy
b. Free the slaves
c. Restore the Union
d. Acquire new territory
17. What innovation provided the most rapid
communication between Civil War field officers and
President Lincoln? (B.3.a)
a. Pony express
b. Telegraph
c. Telephone
d. U.S. Mail
Lincoln’s attitude is most accurately reflected in
which statement? (B.3.a)
a. He felt the time was not right to address
the contentious issue of slavery, believing
the nation might be mature enough tin the
future to resolve the matter.
b. He was keenly aware of the need to
separate his private moral views from what
he knew was a higher duty as president.
c. He felt the issue of slavery was of greater
immediate significance than the political
problems associated with the rebellion of
the Confederacy.
d. He held a degree of personal racial
prejudice, but he was able to control it in
the exercise of his duties as president.
19. How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the
course of the Civil War? (B.3.b)
a. By extending the North’s war aims to
include abolition
b. By prompting several states to secede from
the Union
c. By forcing Southern states to stop importing
slaves
d. By allowing escaped slaves to fight in the
Union army
20. Which aspect(s) of the Enrollment Act incited violent
protests by some residents of New York City? (B.3.b)
a. The policy of rejecting African American
voters
b. The policy of drafting only immigrants into
the military
c. The policies of nullification and
emancipation
d. The policies of substitution and
commutation