US History 4.2-4.3 Test Review

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

• to ensure that pro-slavery states had an advantage in Congress
• to maintain balance between slave states and free states
• to ensure that free states had an advantage in Congress
• to maintain British dominance in Western European affairs

Who was freed with the Emancipation Proclamation?

• all slaves
• all slaves in border states who remained loyal to the Union
• all slaves in the Confederacy
• women

The motivation for the south (Confederacy) was

• temperance
• abolitionism
• their homeland and way of life
• women's suffrage

Why did the South so fear the election of Abraham Lincoln?

• he supported popular sovereignty
• He supported the Dred Scott decision
• He wanted to immediately end slavery
• He might seek to end slavery

True/False:  South Carolina played a large role in secession and formation of the CSA.

• True
• False

True/False:  South Carolina played a large role in secession and formation of the CSA.

• True
• False

Battle that turned the war in favor of the Union.  Stonewall Jackson was dead and the South had lost some of their will to fight.

• Gettysburg
• Antietam
• Vicksburg
• Chancellorsville

True/False:  At the onset of the Republican Party in the 1850s, the party wanted complete abolition of slavery.

• True
• False; they initially just didn't wanted slavery extending into the territories

The bloodiest SINGLE DAY of the Civil War.

• Gettysburg
• Antietam
• First Battle of Bull Run
• Chancellorsville

Brutal scorched earth tactic used by General Sherman of the Union to exterminate all morale in the South.

• March to the Sea
• Antietam
• Seige of Vicksburg
• Grant's assault on Appomattox