EOC Review

What was the goal of General Scott’s plan to defeat the South?

• To cut off the South from military aid and supplies

• To strike quickly at key cities in the South

• To convince other nations to align with the North

• To station their armies as a wall around the Northern states

How did the Dred Scott decision contribute to rising tensions during the pre-Civil War period?

• It made it clear that slaves were property not citizens.

• The court deemed slavery to be illegal

• It established the concept of popular sovereignty

• It showed bias against the South

What was a significant impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Slaves in Northern States were freed.

• The war became a moral contest over slavery.

• Slaves in border states were immediately freed.

• African Americans were admitted into the Confederate army.

during reconstruction, how did Southern states try to stop AA's from using their new rights?

• establishment of property holding requirements for voting

• establishment of segregated schools throughout the South

• Voting occurred in “white’s only” establishments

• collection of poll taxes and use of literacy test to vote

What was the major purpose of the Jim Crow laws that were passed in the South in the late 1870?

• to encourage freed slaves to integrate into Southern society

• to prevent contact between white people and AA's as equals

• to protect freed slaves against racial prejudice

• to frighten AAs so they would resettle in the North and West

What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage that emerged in the South?

• AA's were unable to afford to work agricultural jobs.

• AA's labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery

• AA's left the South in large numbers to escape their debts

• AAs had to work for low wages to pay off their freedom costs

What was the goal of the Union strategy shown in the image above?

• to strike quickly at key cities and a military bases in the South

• to place Confederate armies like a wall around the northern states

• to gain foreign support for the Union Army in their fight against the South

• to surround the Confederate states and cut them off from help and supplies

Which of the following describes the impact of carpetbaggers on Reconstruction?

• They filled the jobs of Union soldiers who died in battle.

• They profited off of the damaged economy in the post-war South.

• They provided political assistance to freedmen who moved North after the war.

• They ran for Congress in order to support the passage of the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.

What was a result of the tension between Radical Republicans and President Andrew Johnson?

• Congress voted to impeach President Johnson.

• The Freedmen's Bureau was denied federal funding.

• The 14th Amendment was never ratified by the states.

• Most of the Confederate leaders were imprisoned for treason.

What was the major reason the Radical Republicans opposed President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?

• The plan granted too many rights to formerly enslaved persons.

• The plan did not allow for a quick way to readmit southern states.

• The plan demanded payments from the South that would have damaged its economy.

• The plan offered amnesty to nearly all Confederates who were willing to swear allegiance to the United States.