SSUSH9 Mini Assessment

A major advantage of the north in the Civil War was

• A moral reason to inspire the army to fight
• The ability to supply the army with its manufacturing and shipping power
• Well trained military officers
• Knowledge of southern terrain

Sherman wanted to capture Atlanta because:

• It was a major railroad hub and its capture would disrupt southern industry
• It was the southern capital and its capture would end the war
• It was the only city that interfered with Union trade on the Mississippi River
• It was the home to Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia

The Union army’s March to the Sea was an example of this military strategy to defeat the south:

• Hit and run
• Guerilla warfare
• “total warfare”
• Divide through fear and isolation

The confederate defeat at Vicksburg was important because: 

• Ended the last major offensive of the Confederate army
• It split the Confederacy in half at the Mississippi River
• Caused the resignation of Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederacy
• Forced Robert E Lee to leave Virginia and take over the campaigns in the west

This law allowed previously free and unorganized territories to choose if they would allow slavery by popular sovereignty.

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso 

“Bleeding Kansas” signal armed clashes between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery opponents who rushed into Kansas to vote on issues. This indicated a failure in:

• Popular Sovereignty
• Voting Rights
• Civil Rights
• Human Rights 

In the Supreme Court Case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, the court said that Dred Scott had no right to sue because as a slave:

• He did not own land
• He was not a registered voter
• He was not married
• He was not a citizen

An abolitionist who attempted to arm and free slaves in Virginia at Harper’s Ferry:

• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison
• John Brown
• John Monroe

In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln said “a house divided cannot stand”. What did he mean?

• He wanted to keep the Union together
• He wanted to divide the Nation
• He wanted some slave states and free states
• He wanted the people to decide the issue of slave

A former senator from Mississippi, he was the President of the Confederacy. 

• Stonewall Jackson
• Jefferson Davis
• Alexander Stephens
• Ulysses S. Grant