EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION QUIZ

Which of the following was a Union advantage during the Civil War?

• heavy military support fr Great Britain
• more experienced generals
• Southern Nationalism
• more soldiers and factories

Which side had the best military leaders/Generals during the Civil War?

• Mexico

• The North

• The South

• Canada

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live."-Gettysburg Address

WHICH PRESIDENT GAVE THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS?

• George Washington

• Donald Trump

• Barack Obama

• Abraham Lincoln

Why did Lincoln have to deal with "draft riots" in the North?

• He didn't

• people in the north were protesting the drafting of civilians for the Civil War

• Lincoln did not wish to upset the confederacy during his presidency

• none of the above

What constitutional issue did Lincoln "SUSPEND"?

• He suspended the bill of rights

• he suspended the right to bear arms

• he suspended "writ of habeus corpus"

• none of the above

How did Northerners find "Battle Hymn of the Republic" motivating?

• They didn't

• It was originally a religious song that talked about freeing all men

• It talked about surrendering to the confederacy

• It supported Jefferson Davis the confederate president

Why did Abraham Lincoln suspend "habeus corpus"?

• Lincoln was hoping to sue for peace

• Lincoln needed to give his military the means to end the draft riots

• Lincoln was hoping to reconstruct the US constitution

• none of the above

What does it mean to "emancipate" someone?

• To enslave

• To abolish

• To free

• To vote

What did the Emancipation Proclamation say?

• That slavery in the north was over

• That slavery in the south was over

• That slavery wouldn't spread west

• That slavery would be voted on in the next election

Lincoln specifically referred to which part of the country in the Emancipation Proclamation

• The South

• The North

• The East

• The West