Unit 7 - Civil War Review

African-Americans were MOST inspired to fight in the Civil War after...

• ... the South fired on Fort Sumter.
• ... the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• ... Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

What was the impact of Sherman's March to the Sea?

• It convinced the South that they could win the war.
• It left a path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah that crippled the Confederacy.
• It forced Robert E. Lee to evacuate Georgia.

With which of the following statements would a secessionist most agree?

• "Let's give Lincoln a chance, perhaps he will be a good president."
• "The South must break away from the Union before the federal government takes away all our rights."
• "States' rights is a dangerous principle."

The Georgia Platform was important because it did which of the following?

• It stated taht Georgia would support the Compromise of 1850 so long as the federal government did not outlaw slavery in the western territories.
• It announced Georgia would not support slavery in the western territories.
• It porclaimed that Georgia had seceded and was no longer part of the Union.

Which of the following most upset Georgians?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The election of Abraham Lincoln
• South Carolina's decision to secede

Which of the following is true regarding Alexander Stephens?

• He was a cooperationist who opposed secession at the Georgia Convention.
• He opposed the Compromise of 1850 becuase he thought it violated states' rights.
• He was elected president of the new Confederate States of American in 1860.

What was the purpose of the Union's blockade?

• To destroy the South's rail lines
• To keep the South from trading goods by ship
• To take Atlanta

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• It freed all slaves in the United States
• It allowed slaves to fight in the Confederate army
• It freed the slaves in the Confederate states

During the Civil War, the Union decided to blockade the Georgia coast in order to...

• ... meet Sherman as he finished his March to the Sea.
• ... engage Georgia's navy in battle.
• ... disrupt the foreign trade on which Georgia and the rest of the Confederacy depended.

A southern politician who believed in the doctrine of nullification would have been MOST supportive of...

• ... abolition.
• ... States' rights.
• ... crop diversification.