CBA 7 Prep

Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas as a result of what piece of legislation?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

• Compromise of 1850

• 13th Amendment

Which Civil War battle ended Confederate access to the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederate Territory in half?

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Antietam

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the outcome of the Civil War?

• Economic differences between the Union and the Confederacy

• The amount of military training given to Union forces and Confederacy forces

• Religious differences between the Union and the Confederacy

• The alignment of foreign allies with the Union or with the Confederacy

The Freedmen's Bureau ...

• Divided plantations to give property to former slaves

• Created a militia to help enforce voting rights

• offered legal assistance and education to former slaves

• tried to get the government to give money to former slaves

The main purpose of Black Codes in the south was to ...

• limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

• increase the labor supply for factory jobs in the North

• decrease the number of northern representatives in Congress

• improve relations with the Democratic Party

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south causing the abolitionist movement to gain momentum in the North

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850

- Encouraged African Americans to fight for the Union

- Strengthened the Union militarily and politically

- Shifted the focus of the war to freedom for all

All of these were parts of which speech?

• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

The election of __________ to the US Senate finally provided African Americans in the south with proof that the 15th Amendment was being enforced.

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Dred Scott

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Frederick Douglass

The Homestead Act was signed into law in 1862, and its purpose was to --

• set aside designated lands in states for the creation of higher institutions of learning

• promote individual ownership of land by Native Americans

• allow for the inclusion of newly freed African Americans into Southern society

• encourage settlement of the west by any American, including freed slaves

A federal law that outlawed Black Codes and the first time Congress passed a law that protected racial minorities

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Civil Rights Act of 1865

• Civil Rights Act of 1867

• Civil Rights Act of 1868