Unit 5

The South had an advantage over the North in

• a larger population
• better military commanders
• more industry
• more transportation

The GREATEST strength of the North was

• its military leadership
• its navy
• its moral high ground
• its economy

After which battle did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Gettysburg
• Shiloh
• Antietam
• Vicksburg

What officially abolished slavery in the US?

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Surrender of Robert E. Lee
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment

What strategy did Sherman use to destroy the South?

• Attrition
• Guerrilla War
• Siege War
• Total War

Which battle is considered the turning point and doomed the Southern Cause?

• Gettysburg
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Fredericksburg

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves

• in the Border States
• in the South
• in the entire US
• in the West

During Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau was able to

• distribute 40-acre plots to all ex slaves who wanted land.
  
• greatly increase the number of former slaves who could read (literate).
• convince many Southern whites to join the Republican Party.
  
• repress much of the violence committed against ex-slaves.
  

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:

• the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
  
• Congress banned slavery in any new territory that might ever be added to the United States.
  
• Missouri agreed to gradual emancipation of slavery in exchange for admission to the Union.
• Ohio became a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state.
  

All of the following statements about the Fourteenth Amendment are true EXCEPT:

• It was vehemently opposed by President Johnson.
  
• It guaranteed all citizens the equal protection of the law.
  
• It permitted former high-ranking Confederates to hold office.
  
• It declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens.