Civil War Practice Test

What was a result of the Dred Scott decision?

• The Supreme Court rules that African Americans are not citizens.

• The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans are property.

• The Supreme Court ruled that the printing of abolitionist books were to be

  printed at a lower cost and distributed in the South for free

• The Supreme Court ruled that slaves would be allowed to serve in the

  Confederate army during the Civil War

What was the significance (importance) of the Compromise of 1850?

• California would enter as a free state.

• This would keep the Northern, Southern, and Western politicians satisfied.

• Settlers in the territories of Utah and New Mexico would vote if they wanted slavery or not.

• Every state would become a free state

The US Supreme Court decided that this man was still just a slave, even though he had lived in a free territory, setting the stage for slavery to be legal everywhere

• Uncle Tom

• Tony Stark

• Dred Scott

• Brown v Board

Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act important?

• This Act allowed Nebraska as a slave state and Kansas

  as a free state

• Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed popular sovereignty to decide if these

  territories would become a Free State or a Slave State.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed slavery in Northern territories

• Kansas-Nebraska Act said slavery would be allowed forever in the South

The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue?

• the expansions of slavery into new territories

• the sale of federal lands to slave owners

• the right of Northerners to own slaves

• the return of slaves who had escaped from the South

Who was the Texan that voted to leave

the United States and join the Confederate States of America?

• Harriet Tubman

• Sam Houston

• John Reagan

• John Bell Hood

I am a General that had many successful battles during the Civil War. I took many

of my commands from Abraham Lincoln and fought to preserve the Union of the States.

• General Santa Anna

• General Robert E. Lee

• General Sam Houston

• General Ulysses S. Grant

This political cartoon comments on events that occurred during the — 8.1(A)

• Reconstruction era

• Age of Jackson

• Second Great Awakening

• War of 1812

What was the main goal of the Reconstruction Era?

• To punish the Southern states

• To rebuild the South and integrate it back into the Union

• To establish new colonies

• To start a new government

what did General Gordon Granger suggest that now free slaves (freeman) do?

• Beg for money at military posts

• Remain on the plantation and work as hired labor

• Ask their former master for payment based off the years they worked

• Do nothing