Pre-assessment 5.8-5.10

During the election, what was Lincoln's stand on slavery?

• He was an abolitionist.

• He wanted slavery to spread westward.

• He wanted to keep slavery from spreading into the western territories.

• He wanted the Northern free states to rewrite their constitutions to allow limited slavery.

The Republican Party campaign platform of 1860 called for...

• the restriction of slavery from new territories.

• the immediate abolition of slavery.

• the use of popular sovereignty to determine the fate of slavery on the frontier.

What was a major reason why the Democratic Party lose the election of 1860?

• they ran a female candidate

• their platform was too controversial

• their party split in two

• they ran out of campaign money

What was Lincoln's rationale for war against the South in 1861?

• liberate the slaves

• prevent Europe from meddling in American affairs

• preserve the Union

• stop a Southern invasion of the North

Which plan required a 50% oath of loyalty, creation of the Freedman's Bureau, and punishment of the South

• Johnson
• Lincoln
• Radical Republicans
• Democrats

This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty

• Lincoln's Plan
• Johnson's Plan
• Radical Republican's Plan
• Grant's Plan

Passed by a Republican Congress, it guaranteed the rights of citizenship to former slaves.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

Union commander who used a ¨total war¨ strategy to destroy Georgia

• Robert Anderson

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• John C. Pemberton

• David Farragut

How did people in the Union respond to the draft?

• They accepted it to further abolition in the Confederacy

• Riots broke out in New York City

• Freed slaves took jobs

• They voted Lincoln out of office

What country did the Confederates try to convince to be their ally?

• France

• Great Britain

• Italy

• Mexico