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Civil War TEST

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11th Grade

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Civil War TEST
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What event was the catalyst for the secession of the first seven southern states in 1861? (SS.912.A.2.1)

Passage of a higher tariff on southern cotton

Insurance of the emancipation proclamation

The election of Abraham Lincoln

The shipment of Union supplies to Fort Sumter

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

James McPherson wrote in *The Battle Cry For Freedom*, “What were the rights and liberties for which Confederates contended? The right to own slaves; the liberty to take property into the territories; freedom from the coercive powers of a centralized government.” What contradiction does James McPherson find in the secession of the Southern States? (SS.912.A.2.1)

Confederates outnumbered Northerners

Confederates demanded the freedom to enslave others

Confederates believed that the states had the right to leave the Union.

Confederates felt that slaves were better treated than Northern factory workers.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which sequence of events correctly identifies a rise in tension, bringing the nation closer toward armed conflict? (SS.912.A.2.1)

John Brown's Raid -> Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850 -> Dred Scott decision

Kansas Nebraska Act -> California is admitted as a Free State

Bleeding Kansas -> Maine and Missouri are granted statehood together

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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General Winfield Scott described the purpose of the Anaconda Plan, “[S]o as to envelope the insurgent States and bring them to terms with less bloodshed than by any other plan.” What was the main objective of the plan General Scott described? (SS.912.A.2.1)

To attack and bring under control a few key southern cities

To disrupt Southern supply lines by controlling the railroad junctions in the South

To sign treaties with Britain and France to prevent them from assisting the South

To suffocate the South by controlling the Mississippi River and the Southern ports

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was a significant impact of the Emancipation Proclamation? (SS.912.A.2.1)

Slaves in the Northern states were freed.

The war became a moral contest over slavery.

Slaves in border states were immediately freed.

African Americans were admitted into the Confederate army.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which amendment guaranteed the "equal protection" of the laws to all American citizens? (SS.912.A.2.4)

13th amendment

14th amendment

15th amendment

16th amendment

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the best contemporary definition of a "scalawag"? (SS.912.A.2.2)

a Northern abolitionist who supported the Freedmen's Bureau

a Northern who came to the South after the Civil War

a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction

a freedman entitled to vote

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