Unit 5 Post Test, Part 1 Review

Which of the following was an effect of the Union blockade on the southern ports?

• the North suffered because they could no longer get southern cotton

• the South did not suffer any ill effects because they could still sell their cotton

• the South could not get the manufactured goods they needed; their economy was damaged

• Great Britain decided to fight on the side of the Confederacy

Why was Sherman's March to the Sea so effective?

• General Lee was made to surrender to General Grant

• railroad tracks and anything that could support the Confederacy was destroyed

• Great Britain was forced to stop supporting the Confederacy

• the Confederacy could not use the Mississippi River to transport their cotton

The biggest and bloodiest battle of the Civil War that was fought in Georgia was

• Atlanta

• Chattanooga

• Andersonville

• Chickamauga

"Negroes, neither slave nor free are citizens of the United States." This decision came from which Supreme Court case?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Nat Turner v. Virginia

The effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was

• all slaves in the United States were freed.

• all slaves in the border states were freed.

• all slaves in Georgia were freed.

• all slaves in the rebellious states were freed.

Place a check next to each off the following that was a cause of the Civil War.

• sectionalism

• The Missouri Compromise

• Trail of Tears

• Election of 1860

• States' Rights

What happened right after Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860?

• South Carolina seceded from the Union

• the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter and the Civil War began

• all slaves in the United States were freed

• the Supreme Court named John Breckinridge as president

The Georgia Platform was written to support

• the Missouri Compromise

• the Dred Scott case

• the Compromise of 1850

• the Emancipation Proclamation

The Nullification Crisis was all about

• slavery

• states' rights

• secession

• tariffs

One purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea was

• to lay railroad tracks to be used by the Union who were invading the South

• break the spirit of the Confederate citizens

• prove that he was the most powerful Union general

• give President Lincoln an early Christmas present