US History Midterm 22

The Battle of Vicksburg

• Resulted in the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.

• resulted in the Mississippi River being under Union control and the Confederacy being cut in two.

• was Lee's last attempt to invade the North in hope of convincing the Union to give up the fight

• was the best example of 'total war' in the South

Use the graph to answer the question below. 

The graph shows one major advantage of the Union Army at the start of the Civil War.  

      What were others?

• A. superior numbers and fighting a defensive war

• . superior numbers and greater agricultural support

• superior numbers and a more balanced economy

• D.  superior numbers and better generals

The FIRST permanent English settlement in the new world was founded to

• establish political freedom for all.

• make a profit for the business investors.

• allow certain religious groups to escape the Catholic Church.

• create a new nation independent of English control.

Q. 

Which of the following was a belief held by John Brown (1800–1859)?

• Slavery should be abolished by violent means, if necessary.

• Abolitionists should work for gradual change.

• Individual states should decide whether to permit slavery. 

• The South should work to diversify its economic base.

Read the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. 

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds . . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”       —March 4, 1865

This selection expresses Lincoln’s hope for restoration of 

• civil liberties

• racial equality

• national unity

• religious freedom

Multiple-choice

Q. 

A Native American living in the Ohio River valley region would have which of the following views about the Proclamation of 1763 that forbade colonists from entering the region? 

• They would agree because they didn’t want to see Europeans in the area.

• They would ignore the law, since the English government could not regulate Native Americans.

• They would be angry because they could not sell their land to the colonists.

• They would agree, since the settlers wanted to start a war with the French.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed

• enslaved people living in rebelling areas

• enslaved people living in later states

• All slaves in the Western Hemisphere

• enslaved people living in the alien territories

The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision significantly impacted African Americans.  Which of the following resulted from the Dred Scott case?

• Supreme court said that slaves were not citizens

• said freed slaves did not have to be employed

• gave slaves their freedom

• the Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional

The shots fired on which piece of federal property marked the start of the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter in South Carolina

• The Pentagon in Washington, DC

• Independence Hall in Philadelphia

• Fort Henry in Tennessee

• United States territory

• Spanish Colony

• Independent Republic

• part of Mexico