Civil War Review

The Emancipation Proclamation

• ended the war immediately

• decreed freedom for all enslaved people in areas still in rebellion against the Union

• decreed freedom for all enslaved people in the loyal border states

• amended the Constitution to free all enslaved people

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited:

• war

• secession

• discrimination

• slavery

Abolitionists argued that enslaved African Americans should be:

• freed gradually, with compensation to former slaveholders.

• freed immediately, without compensation to former slaveholders.

• freed gradually to give the South’s economy time to adjust.

• sent to their ancestral homelands in Africa.

According to an accepted amendment to the Missouri Compromise, slavery

• could expand into the Arkansas Territory but not the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.

• could not expand into any other western territories.

• would be allowed in a new state only if a free state entered the Union at the same time.

• could expand into the Great Plains but not the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.

Emancipation meant that slavery would not continue in any of the Southern states.

• True

• False

Which Union victory split the Confederacy in two?

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• Fredericksburg

• Chancellorsville

In addition to ending the enslavement of millions of African Americans, the North’s victory in the Civil War also saved the Union and strengthened the power of the federal government over the

• military.

• church.

• states.

• South.

As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union army

• gained thousands of new soldiers because African Americans were officially allowed to enlist.

• suffered a series of military defeats as Confederate forces became more determined to defeat the Union.

• experienced mass desertions by white soldiers.

• began to employ African Americans in noncombat support roles.

In the South, many residents viewed abolitionism as an attack on their entire way of life.

• True

• False

The Fugitive Slave Act did not require ordinary citizens to assist in capturing runaway slaves.

• True

• False