Civil War practice test Assignment

The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to

• Return slaves captured in free states to slave states

• Allow slavery in Maine, but not Missouri

• Maintain a balance of free states and slave states

• Let Missouri have slavery until 1850

Why did the US Supreme Court rule against Dred Scott?

• Because he was the property of his owner and could be taken anywhere

• Because he did not live long enough in a free territory to be free

• Because Scott was a slave and he was not eligible to sue in court

• Because he was returned to a slave state and could not be freed

The main purpose of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was to

• Convince France and Britain to get out of the war.

• Capture the important railroad depot at Charleston.

• Permanently destroy Georgia's ability to produce cotton.

• Delete the South's strategic and economic capacity to fight.

Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with

• His idea for instituting an income tax.

• How to draft more men into the Union Army.

• Re-admitting Southern states into the Union.

• His quest to reconquer only 10% of the South.

General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was important to the Union war effort because

• It placed the Mississippi River under Union control.

• It convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy.

• Important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces.

• Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender his forces as a direct result of Sherman's victory.

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 issue played the GREATEST role in dividing the North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War?

• Slavery

• Foreign trade

• Indian removal

• War with Mexico

The American Civil War ended in what year?

• 1857

• 1861

• 1865

• 1877

Abolitionists fought for the continuation of slavery

• True 
• False 

Compromise of 1850

• Allowed California to become a free state, but passed the Fugitive Slave Act
• Law that helped slave owners to recapture runaway slaves
• Allowed the people to vote and decide on the issue of slavery
• Proposal to make slavery illegal in any land gained from the Mexican-American War