Unit Test: The Civil War

What is an "abolitionist?"

• a. A person who fought for the rights of indigenous people.
• b. A supporter of Mexican land rights in Texas.
• c. A financial donor to the cause of women's rights in the 19th century.
• d. An individual who worked to end the institution of slavery.

What is popular sovereignty?

• a. The idea that the people have the right to elect their own sovereign in a traditional monarchy.
• b. The philosophy that the people have the right to vote if their state is a free or slave.
• c. Abraham Lincoln's term for abolitionism.
• d. The concept stating that if the South wanted to leave the Union, they should be allowed to leave, in peace.

To "secede" is to--

• a. Leave the United States.
• b. Succeed in business, specifically in the South.
• c. Combine more than one plantation under one owner.
• d. Raise tariffs on imported goods, specifically from Spain.

Who said and/or wrote the below statement?

• a. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in The Declaration of Sentiments.
• b. Abraham Lincoln, in The Emancipation Proclamation.
• c. Frederick Douglas in his third debate.
• d. None of the above.

Which of the following was NOT true of Jefferson Davis? --

• a. He was President of the Confederacy.
• b. He was a plantation owner.
• c. He served as a senator from Mississippi.
• d. All of the above statements are true.

Clara Barton was most closely associated with--

• a. Healthcare for soldiers during the Civil War.
• b. Abolitionism before, during, and after the Civil War.
• c. Literature, as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• d. Women's rights, such as those discussed at the Seneca Falls Convention.

Which of the following individuals believed that secession was not permitted by the U.S. Constitution?

• a. Jefferson Davis
• b. Abraham Lincoln
• c. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• d. Stonewall Jackson

Abraham Lincoln once joked that the following person started the Civil War because of his/her writing.

• a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• b. Ulysses S. Grant
• c. Clara Barton
• d. Frederick Douglass

. Which of the following events happened FIRST?

• a. The Gettysburg Address
• b. The Emancipation Proclamation
• c. The Battle of Antietam
• d. The secession of South Carolina from the Union.

Which of the following is TRUE about tariffs in the 19th century?

• a. Southerners opposed tariffs because they believed tariffs would scare off foreign buyers of their goods and make the imported goods they needed more expensive.
• b. Northerners opposed tariffs because the economy of the North was dependent on other parts of the country for most of its agricultural needs.
• c. People in both the North and the South approved of tariffs because foreign imports were already too expensive.
• d. None of the above statements are true.