Civil War questions

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows. "In most of the States in which slavery is tolerated, the laws in relation to free [black] persons are severe in the extreme. Though their freedom is recognized, yet they have not the rights of other freemen. . . . At the North, few blacks are mechanics, because the whites will not allow them to work with them. At the South, on the contrary, few of the mechanics are whites, because they will not do the same sort of work as blacks." —William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, January 22, 1831 According to Garrison’s observations, how were slaves and free blacks treated similarly in both the North and the South?

• Both slaves and free blacks could travel without restrictions.

• Both slaves and free blacks experienced discrimination.

• Both slaves and free blacks often owned businesses.

• Both slaves and free blacks were not paid for their work.

Which condition did both slaves and free blacks in the United States experience in the antebellum period?

• Both groups were allowed to testify in court.

• Both groups were able to vote in elections.

• Both groups were forced to pay taxes.

• Both groups were denied citizenship rights.

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature.

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts.

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased.

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories.

Which statement correctly matches a historical event with one of its immediate results?

• The Nullification Crisis led to South Carolina seceding from the United States over slavery.

• The Missouri Compromise led to Missouri being admitted to the union as a free state.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to Kansas being allowed to decide whether it would permit slavery.

• The Compromise of 1850 led to California being admitted to the union as a slave state.

Which statement describes the roles of George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War?

• They were Confederate generals who captured Fort Sumter.

• They were Union generals who commanded the Army of the Potomac.

• They were Confederate generals who surrendered at the Battle of Vicksburg.

• They were Union generals who committed war crimes at the Battle of Gettysburg.

This excerpt is from a proposed constitution for the Kansas Territory that contributed to sectional conflict. Article VII.—Slavery. Section 2. The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated. —Lecompton Constitution, 1857 Based on the excerpt, which group wrote the Lecompton Constitution?

• Opponents of westward expansion

• Supporters of abolitionism

• Anti-slavery Northerners

• Pro-slavery Southerners

Which statement describes how the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectionalism?

• It allowed slavery to expand into the territories.

• It gave tax cuts to manufacturers who relocated to the territories.

• It allowed slaves who escaped to the territories to purchase their freedom.

• It granted homesteads to immigrants who settled in the territories.

Which outcome best completes this diagram?

• American Revolution

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War

Why was the Battle of Vicksburg a strategic victory in the Civil War?

• The battle opened the way for a full-scale Union attack on Atlanta.

• The battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

• The battle prevented a Confederate invasion of the North.

• The battle allowed President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

What made the battles at Antietam and Gettysburg different from the other battles illustrated on this map?

• They were victories for the Confederacy.

• They were battles fought in Union territory.

• They were attempts to keep Virginia in the Union.

• They were battles defending the Confederate capital.