Civil War and Reconstruction

In the Dred Scott case the Supreme Court ruled all of the following EXCEPT

• Fugitive slave law is unconstitutional

• Missouri compromise is unconstitutional

• masters can take slaves anywhere

• slaves are property; not citizens

The event causing the first state to secede from the Union was:

• Lincoln's election

• John Brown's raid

• the Kansas Nebraska Act

• the Dred Scott decision

President Lincoln's goal when he was elected president in 1860 was:

• preserve the Union

• abolish slavery

• leave slavery alone

• defeat the Confederacy

Which of the following was a Confederate advantage at the beginning of the Civil War?

• more experienced generals

• more miles of railroads

• more people

• help from France

How did Lincoln convince the border states to remain in the Union?

• declared martial law where needed

• never had to use troops

• used only totally legal methods

• relied on moral appeal

The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was:

• the new Fugitive Slave Law

• slavery in the New Mexico territories

• settlement of the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas

• slavery in Washington DC

The north's strategy, The Anaconda Plan, included all of the following EXCEPT

• capturing Washington DC

• gaining control of the Mississippi River

• blockading Confederate ports

• dividing the south in half and waging total war

Slavery in the US was finally abolished by the:

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 19th amendment

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was:

• a hope for peace and "malice towards none"

• harsh to the south, both politically and economically

• very vague; not much detail

• harsh politically, but economically lenient

Johnson's plan of Reconstruction was:

• harsher than Lincoln; but far short of what the Radical Republicans wanted

• harsh and similar to Lincoln

• a reflection of what the southern states wanted

• exactly like Lincoln's plan