2021 Quarter 1 Assessment Review

When the Civil War began, what was Abaham Lincoln’s main goal?

• Lincoln wanted to unify the North and South.

• Punish the South for leaving the Union.

• Lincoln wanted to give America have a better chance in the Space race.

• Lincoln wanted to free the slaves.

What was issued to abolish slavery in the South - among the secceding states?

• Gettysburg Address

• Congress passed the 21st Amendment.

• President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas declared it in the compromise of 1850.

What was passed to abolish slavery in the North?

• Clay and Douglas declared it in the Compromise of 1850.

• The Emancipation Proclamation was passed by President Lincoln.

• Gettysburg Address.

• Congress passed the thirteenth amendment

Why were standardized time zones introduced?

• To benefit Railroad companies and Travelers.

• Factory owners needed a way to set schedules.

• Telegraph and Phone operators wanted a way to tell time.

• Manufacturers who dealt in international trade wanted to tell time.

How did President Andrew Johnson show that he did not support greater rights for African Americans in the South?

• He fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.

• He vetoed the Freedman's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

• He supported a reconstruction plan similar to Lincoln.

• He allowed high ranking Confederates to vote without swearing allegiance to the US

Intended to overrule and nullify the Dred Scott decision, Congress drafted this in order to define citizenship?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Tenure of Office Act

• Amnesty Act

Farmers who agreed to give most of their harvest to landowners in exchange for use of the land, seeds, and tools were known as...

• Scalawags

• Tenant Farmers

• Sharecroppers

• The Planter Class

Which group was the Dawes Act designed to control?

• Farmers and shopkeepers.

• Native Americans

• Outlaws and Bandits

• Immigrants

Which group was the Dawes Act designed to benefit the most?

• Native Americans

• White Settlers

• Both Native Americans and white settlers

• Neither Native Americans nor white settlers

What did the white settlers do which essentially ended the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation?

• White settlers began wanting the land on the plains

• Native Americans refused to remain on the Plains

• Native American populations decreased and needed less land

• The Plains failed to meet the needs of Native Americans