Unit 5 Study Guide Review

This Civil War-era illustration is showing

• Grant's victory at Shiloh

• Sherman's "March to the Sea"

• Scott's victory at Gettsyburg

• the Union blockade of the South

The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

• provide 40 acres and a mule to each former slave

• gain the vote for millions of former slaves

• provide work, education , and relief for former slaves

• investigate, arrest, and prosecute member of the Ku Klux Klan

Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal was President was to

• preserve the Union

• encourage sectionalism

• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• end slavery throughout the Southern States

Which Supreme Court case raised the issue of an enslaved Black person who lived in a free state and questioned whether slaves were free once they set foot upon Northern soil?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Nat Turner v. Virginia

Why did tenant farming become a dominant form of agriculture in the 1870s?

• Many Confederate prisoners were available for such work

• The government offered landowners incentives to hire them

• Masses of former slaves were needed to work for landowners

• People flocked to the South for jobs following the Civil War

How did the Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Supreme Court case intensify the fight for abolition?

• The high court ruled in favor of Sanford under the condition that he will free Dred Scott upon his death.

• The high court ruled in favor of Dred Scott granting him freedom; thus persuading society that slaves have rights.

• The high court ruled slaves are property and therefore have no rights; thus strengthening the fight for abolition.

• The high court ruled the issue of slave rights is a reserved power and thus the states solely have authority to grant rights to slaves.

The term "Reconstruction" in United States history refers to the period after what event?

• the Civil War

• the Revolutionary War

• the Constitutional Convention

• the Declaration of Independence

Which two issues played the GREATEST roles in causing the Civil War?

• slavery and states' rights

• Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal

• the Missouri Compromise and the California Gold Rush

• the election of James K. Polk and the Northwest Ordinance

What did the Emancipation Proclamation accomplish?

• ended the Civil War

• freed the slaves in the Union

• freed the slaves in the rebelling areas

• declared a blockade of the southeastern coast

What is the BEST description of the southern economy during Reconstruction?

• The southern economy was stabilized because of trade relationships with Great Britain and France

• The southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor

• The southern economy was transformed from being based on agriculture to being completely dependent on industry and manufactoring

• The southern economy was completely restored by 1866 and was actually more productive and profitable than the pre- Civil War economy.