Civil War Test AHI

What was alarming about California's application to join the union?

• The leaders were abolitionists. 
• The leaders had written a constitution that forbade slavery.
• The leaders had suggested the acceptance of the Wilmot Proviso.
• The leaders had requested that the MO Compromise be replaced. 

Which statement is false?

• Frederick Douglass felt that slaves had fewer rights than animals.
• Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
• Runaway slaves could have their case heard by a jury of their peers.
• Federal commissioners had mor incentive to return a person to slavery.

Prior to the Republican National Convention in May of 1860, who was considered the most likely Republican candidate for the 1860 presidential election?

• John C. Fremont
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln
• William H. Seward

What was one reason that the border states were important to the Union?

• They had stockpiles of weaponry.
• They had an abundance of slave labor.
• They had important rail and water routes.
• They had products that could be sold to foreign nations.

What country nearly went to war with the Union because of the Trent Affair?

• Great Britain
• France
• The Netherlands
• Russia

What strategic benefit in foreign policy did the Emancipation Proclamation offer the Union?

• It discouraged the British from immigrating to the South.
• It discouraged the British from engaging in the slave trade.
• It discouraged the British from supporting the Confederacy.
• It discouraged the British from purchasing cotton grown by slaves. 

What ultimately caused the town of Vicksburg to surrender to General Grant?

• the lack of food
• the threat of total war
• the fear of slave uprisings
• the flooding of the Mississippi

Who requested that Lee and his army be given favorable terms at Appomattox Court House?

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

What was a result of the lack of proper garbage disposal and latrines in army camps?

• Many soldiers ended up with serious diseases.
• The armies had to keep on moving to find clean places to stay.
• Nurses had to follow the camps to help establish proper facilities.
• Generals had to reprimand the soldiers for failing to comply with sanitation rules.

What aspect of the Compromise of 1850 was attractive to the South?

• It allowed Texas to claim parts of New Mexico.
• It proposed a more effective fugitive slave law. 
• It prohibited popular sovereignty in new territories.
• It prevented the country from admitting California as a free state.