9-16 EOC - US History

In what two speeches, delivered by President Lincoln, did he reaffirm his desire to see the Union survive and the nation reunited?

• 2nd Inaugural Address & Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg Address & 2nd Inaugural Address
• 2nd Inaugural Address & Emancipation Proclamation
• Constitution & Emancipation Proclamation

What area did the South have an advantage over the north during the Civil War?

• military leadership
• money
• education
• fighting for a cause

What executive order was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that freed slaves in the Confederate states and gave the war a moral cause for the North?

• Inaugural Speech
• Political Cartoons
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg Address

Which court case stated that slaves were not citizens, but personal property and therefore had no right to go to court to win their freedom?

• Brown v Board of Education
• Miranda Decision
• Dred Scott Decision
• Plessy Decision

What act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and reignited the slavery issue by allowing territories within the Louisiana Purchase area to determine slavery by popular sovereignty?

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Proclamation of 1763
• Treaty of Versailles

As stated in his 1st Inaugural Address, what was President Abraham Lincoln’s main goal at the beginning of the Civil War?

• free all of the slaves
• kill every Confederate soldier
• preserve the Union
• take over Canada

Which event started because of the differences in opinion between the Northern and Southern states about states’ rights; slavery; and the economy?

• Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Mexican War
• Revolutionary War

Idea that the people who live in certain territories or states would vote on whether or not to allow slavery.

• free voting rights
• popular sovereignty
• territorial expansion
• popular freedom

This Civil War battle, the bloodiest battle of the war, was the turning point of the war because the South would never invade the north again?

• Yorktown
• Cold Harbor
• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?

• Robert E. Lee
• Jefferson Davis
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln