Unit 3 US History 2022

According to this graph

• Confederate soldiers won at Gettysburg.

• Union Soldiers outnumbered Confederate Soldiers.

• Union Soldiers were older than Confederate Soldiers

• 100,000 Union soldiers died at the Battle of Appomattox Court House.

What illustration is shown above?

• Grant's victory at Shiloh.

• Sherman's "March to the Sea".

• Scott's victory at Gettysburg.

• the Union blockade of the South.

The secession of South Carolina from the Union in 1860 was prompted by

• the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.

• the threat of the Congress to abolish slavery.

• refusal of Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Law.

• the invasion of South Carolina by Union forces at Ft. Sumter.

The issues behind the Compromise of 1850 included all of the following EXCEPT

• A) enforcing of the fugitive Slave Act.

• B) the ruling in the "Dred Scott" case.

• C) territorial disputes involving Texas.

• D) the policy regarding slavery in the territories.

In American history, the term "Reconstruction" refers to

• A) problems associated with the transformation to an industrial economy.

• B) the admission of Western territories to the U.S. as either Free or Slave states.

• C) federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of former slaves.

• D) the establishment of a new system of agriculture in the western states and territories based on industrial machinery.

Which of these battles was a major victory for the Union in the American Civil War?

• A) Gettysburg

• B) First Bull Run

• C) Second Bull Run

• D) Chickamauga Creek

The Wilmot Proviso (1846) attempted to forever ban slavery in territories that were won as a result of

• A) the Civil War.

• B) the Mexican War.

• B) the Louisiana purchase.

• D) the Spanish-American War.

Ulysses S. Grant's early success came in the western theater of war, particularly in the successful 1863 siege of

• A) Atlanta.

• B) Mobile.

• C) Richmond

• D) Vicksburg.

Which group was created in late 1865 to resist Reconstruction efforts in the South?

• A) the Ku Klux Klan

• B) the Scalawags

• C) the Radical Republicans

• D) the Knights of Columbus

During Reconstruction, the "Black Codes"

• A) protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.

• B) forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians.

• C) were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.

• D) were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.