Sixth Hexter American History Pre-Test : The Civil War

The Crittenden Compromise included all of the following EXCEPT

• a reinstatement of the old Missouri Compromise line going to the West coast.

• federal compensation for runaway slaves.

• that slavery would be decided by popular vote.

• that there would be an amendment added to the Constitution prohibiting Congress from interfering with slavery.

Abolitionists believed that slavery

• worked better than a free labor system.

• threatened unskilled workers in the North.

• was morally wrong and wanted to end it.

• belonged only in southern states.

In Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, he declared that

• he would abolish slavery once and for all.

• no state can lawfully leave the Union by its own action.

• there would be no war.

• the North would avenge the attack on Fort Sumter.

All of the following were true about Fort Sumter EXCEPT

• that it was a federal facility and the Union could not afford to lose it.

• that it was in a strategic location that made it a valuable asset.

• that Lincoln was willing to lose a fort in the harbor because federal facilities in the South were not important.

• that protecting it would signal that the North was not going to let federal property go without a fight.

Lincoln sent unarmed supply ships to re-supply Fort Sumter because he knew that if the South fired upon it, that they would look like the aggressor.

• True

• False

All of the following were border states that remained loyal to the Union EXCEPT

• Maryland

• Virginia

• Kentucky

• Delaware

West Virginia was made a state in 1863, its mountain counties remaining loyal to the Union and the new state outlawing slavery.

• True

• False

How did the North's population differ from the South's population?

• The North's population was smaller.

• The North's population was larger.

• The North and the South had the same size population.

• There were no population statistics for the North or the South.

How did the Civil War affect industries in the North?

• The North ended up closing many industries.

• Industries in the North could not meet wartime demands.

• Industries in the North became more mechanized.

• Northern industries had to ask the South for help.

The agrarian South was at a disadvantage against the

• European-influenced North.

• more liberal North.

• industrialized North.

• colder North.