Civil War Unit Test Review

The Underground Railroad helped slaves to escape to the...

• North

• East

• South

• West

The American Colonization Society supported what idea?

• Expansion of slavery into the North

• Release of slaves after 10 years of enslavement

• Migration of free African-Americans to Africa

• Re-colonization of America by the British

The ______________ of 1820 established a latitude line that split slave states and free states in Louisiana Territory.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Slave State Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

Which bipartisan party had a platform mainly concerned with restricting the expansion of slavery?

• Whig Party

• Free-Soil Party

• Democratic Party

• Know-Nothing Party

Which was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Stronger fugitive slave laws

• Slaveowners could not separate children from their mothers

• California admitted as a free state

• New Mexico and Utah open to slavery through popular sovereignty

What would be the most accurate way to describe the outcomes of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Neutral reactions

• National unity

• Compromise

• Violence and division

What did the Supreme Court decide in Dred Scott v. Sanford?

• Dred Scott was no longer a slave and could go wherever he pleased.

• Only free blacks could be U.S. citizens.

• African Americans were not and could never be U.S. citizens.

• Escaped slaves would be legally free once they made it to the North

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in

• The entire United States

• States that had seceded from the Union

What was the main reason for the New York City draft riots of 1863?

• Soldiers angered over Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

• Working-class people upset about inequality in the draft system

• Merchants frustrated with war-related food shortages

The Battle of _____________ resulted in the North gaining control of the Mississippi River.

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Vicksburg