2021 Civil War Unit Test Review

How did the North try to destroy the South's will to fight during the Civil War?

• Sherman's "scorched earth" policy during his March to the Sea

• Freeing the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation

• Reelecting Lincoln as president

• Convincing Europe not to join the war

What led to inflation and shortages of goods in the South during the war?

• High tariffs in the North

• High tariffs in the South

• the Union blockade

• a severe drought destroying crops

Other than destroying crops and manufacturing what else was targeted by Sherman on his 'March to the Sea'?

• churches used as stops on the Underground Railroad

• People helping escaped slaves

• railroad lines

• major highways

What is the Battle of Chickamauga known for?

• Being the shortest battle of the Civil War

• Being the first battle of the Civil War

• Being the largest Battle fought in Georgia

• Being the first Union victory in Georgia

The act of states deciding which national laws they want to accept is know as ____________________________.

• nullification

• amendments

• rewriting the Constitution

• adding articles to the Constitution

Which document quieted radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.

• The Dred Scott decision

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Georgia Platform

• The Missouri Compromise

What did Lincoln state his major objective was at the beginning of the war?

• free all of the slaves

• contain slavery to the south

• preserve the union

• punish the south for seceding

Why did Sherman want to get control of the rail lines going through Georgia?

• So the north could use them to transport goods.

• So the south could not transport cotton to the west

• To cut off supplies coming and going out to the Confederate Army

• To stop the Union from using them to transport troops

Which city did Sherman capture giving the Union complete control over rail lines in the 'deep south'?

• Chattanooga

• Savannah

• Atlanta

• Chickamauga

Which Supreme Court case does this ruling reference, slaves are property and therefore have no rights?

• Worcester v Georgia

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Plessy v Ferguson

• John Brown v Kansas