US History Unit 7

Before the start of the Civil War, many Southern political leaders supported:

• States rights

• Higher tariff rates

• Voting rights for women

• Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act

Most Southern political leaders praised the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) because it

• granted citizenship to all enslaved persons

• upheld the principle of popular sovereignty

• supported the right of a state to secede from the Union

• protected the property rights of slave owners in the territories

In issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, one of Lincoln’s goals was to

• gain the active aid of Britain and France in restoring the Union

• stir up enthusiasm for the war in such border states as Maryland and Kentucky

• please the Radicals in the North by abolishing slavery in areas of the South already under the control of Union armies

• please Russia, one of the Union’s few overseas friends, where the serfs had been emancipated the previous year

• keep Britain and France from intervening on the side of the Confederacy

Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be described as:

• having little effect on the start of the Civil War

• a firsthand account of slavery

• intended to show the cruelty of slavery

• portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery

What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War

• Bull Run

• Atlanta

• Gettysburg

• Appomattox

• New Orleans

After the Civil War, freedmen in the South had difficulty improving their economic condition because

• literacy or formerly enslaved persons was prohibited

• migration of factory workers from Northern cities had created competition for jobs

• the federal government confiscated their 40-acre grants

• the system of sharecropping kept them in a cycle of poverty

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• Shiloh

• Lexington and Concord

• Fort Sumter

match the following

• President of Union during Civil War

• Andrew Johnson

• Union Genera

• Jefferson Davis

• President of the Confederacy

• Abraham Lincoln

• President who was Impeached

• Robert E Lee

• Confederate General

• U S Grant

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case outraged public opinion in the North chiefly because it:

• declared the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional

• guaranteed citizenship to free blacks

• removed restrictions against the spread of slavery into the western territories

• failed to abolish slavery in the South

• challenged California’s status as a free state

Which of the following was an economic cause of the Civil War?

• ineffective presidential leadership in the 1850’s

• publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• President Lincoln’s call for federal troops in 1861

• sectional debate over tariffs and the expansion of slavery