Unit 11 Test Review

This Civil War-era illustration is showing

• Grant's victory at Shiloh.
• Sherman's "March to the Sea".
• Scott's victory at Gettysburg.
• the Union blockade of the South.

The main purpose of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was to

• convince France and Britain to get out of the war.
• capture the important railroad depot at Charleston.
• permanently destroy Georgia's ability to produce cotton.
• destroy the South's strategic and economic capacity to fight.

The Union blockade during the Civil War

• led to an alliance between the Confederacy and Great Britain.
• caused inflation and shortages in the South, especially for manufactured goods.
• really had no effect on the South, since they were already agriculturally self-sufficient.
• hurt the North most since they relied heavily on Southern cotton and agriculture for its own manufacturing base.

The event MOST LIKELY occurring due to the 1860 presidential election of Lincoln was

• the beginning of Reconstruction.
• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• the John Brown-led raid at Harper's Ferry.
• the secession of South Carolina from the Union.

Which of these battles is remembered for being both the largest battle ever fought in Georgia and for being one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War?

• Battle of Atlanta
• Battle of Savannah
• Battle of Chickamauga
• Battle of Fort Pulaski

Nullification was a theory espoused by John C. Calhoun which stated that states had the right to do what?

• get rid of unwanted national bureaucracy
• decide which national laws states would accept
• determine if they wanted to remain in the Union
• refuse to use the paper money issued by the Federal government

Which of these BEST describes the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• It allowed slavery to remain unaltered in states who already used slave labor.
• The President publicly endorsed the abolition of slavery in southern states.
• Former slaves were afforded the right to join the war effort.
• It immediately freed the slaves throughout the country.

The Georgia Platform succeeded in saving the Union from collapse by

• quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.
• quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.
• threatening a Civil War if the North decided to secede from the Union.
• establishing the guidelines for the creation of the Compromise of 1850.

The reason many people MOST LIKELY attacked the Emancipation Proclamation was because it

• allowed some states to continue to use slave labor.
• opposed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
• did not allow freed slaves to join the U.S. military.
• prompted foreign countries to support the Confederacy.

Which Supreme Court case would have had the BIGGEST impact on slaves in the United States?

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)