Reading Quiz #11 American Pageant Chapters 20, 21, & 22 [Unit 5]

President Lincoln's decision (in the first weeks of his administrationon) regarding what to do about the situation at Fort Sumter can best be characterized as...

• a middle-of-the-road solution.

• a strategic blunder.

• the only possible option.

• rash and hotheaded.

   

• ill thought out.

Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that...

• the fort's commander was planning to evacuate his troops secretly from the fort.

• Lincoln had ordered the fort reinforced with federal troops.

• Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort.

• Lincoln had called for seventy-five thousand militia troops to form a voluntary Union army.

Many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until...

• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.

• the South attacked Fort Sumter.

• South Carolina seceded from the United States.

• Virginia and Tennessee joined the seceding states.

• Robert E. Lee was named to head the potential new nation's army.

In order to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union, President Lincoln...

• used legally dubious methods.

• never had to use troops.

• guaranteed that they could keep slavery permanently.

• relied solely on moral appeal.

• used only totally legal methods.

The Border States offered all of these advantages except

• a large population.

• a good supply of horses and mules.

• valuable manufacturing capacity.

• shipbuilding facilities.

Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery

• contradicted the campaign promises of the Republican party.

• caused some seceded states to rejoin the Union.

• came as a disappointment to most Northerners and demoralized the Union.

• revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies.

The group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the Northern Peace Democrats.

• True

• False

When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves in states in rebellion against the United States.

• True

• False

During the Civil War, most of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma supported the Confederacy.

• True

• False

In return for support from the Plains Indians during the Civil War, the Union allowed them to send delegates to Congress.

• True

• False