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4.4 & 4.5 Quiz Review

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The southern states breaking away from the union to form the confederacy is an example of...
a)
secession
b)
federalism
c)
nullification
d)
popular soverignty
2.
A rumor of  ______ moved the secession convention from Columbia to Charleston although the real reason was more fire-eaters were in Charleston.
a)
the northern army moving towards Columbia
b)
a smallpox outbreak
c)
a possible hurricane
d)
northern spies 
3.
After South Carolina seceded ____ other states left the Union in the following months.
a)
3
b)
6
c)
9
d)
1
4.
Also known as fire-eaters...
a)
Secessionists
b)
Unionists
c)
Cooperationists
d)
Republicans
5.
Who was elected President in 1860 that convinced many southerners it was time to secede?
a)
Jefferson
b)
Jackson
c)
Lincoln
d)
Calhoun
6.
Those that believed the south should secede immediately were...
a)
Abolitionists
b)
Secessionists
c)
Cooperationists
d)
Unionists
7.
Those that believed the Constitution will work and the national government should have more power than individual states...
a)
Cooperationist
b)
Secessionist
c)
Nullifier
d)
Unionist
8.
Those that will only secede if other states agree to as well...
a)
Cooperationist
b)
Secessionist
c)
Nullifier
d)
Unionist
9.
This group faced persecution in the south due to their beliefs on secession...
a)
loyalists
b)
unionists
c)
cooperationists
d)
secessionists
10.
The Ordinance of Secession is very similar to...
a)
The Mayflower Compact
b)
The U.S. Constitution
c)
The Bill of Rights
d)
The Declaration of Independence
11.
Withdrawing South Carolina from the United States was the purpose of...
a)
The Missouri Compromise
b)
The Nullification Crisis
c)
The Ordinance of Secession
d)
The Declaration of Independence
12.
A unionist would have been most likely to support...
a)
rights for workers
b)
the abolition of slavery
c)
forming the Confederate 
d)
loyalty to the U.S. government
13.
The North had more railroad tracks, firearms, and manufactured goods meaning they had better...
a)
industrial development
b)
politics
c)
leadership
d)
agriculture
14.
First shots of the Civil War were fired at...
a)
Washington DC
b)
Gettysburg, PA
c)
Fort Sumter, SC
d)
Richmond, VA
15.
Emancipation Proclamation
a)
Extended slavery out west
b)
Sent captured slaves back to their owners
c)
All new states were to be free
d)
Freed slaves in the rebelling states
16.
Which state would Sherman and many other Union soldiers want to treat more harshly than the others?
a)
South Carolina
b)
Virginia 
c)
Alabama
d)
Mississippi
17.
Total war was a part of...
a)
the Anaconda Plan
b)
The Kansas Nebraska Act
c)
Bleeding Kansas
d)
March to the Sea Campaign
18.
Fighting a defensive war to wear down the opposing army was the main strategy of the...
a)
Confederacy
b)
Union
19.
How did the south get supplies by the Union blockade?
a)
submarines
b)
abolitionists
c)
blockade runners
d)
underground railroad
20.
Fort Sumter is important because...
a)
it was the location of the end of the Civil War.
b)
it destroyed by the Union when taking Port Royal
c)
the target of General Sherman's March to the Sea.
d)
its where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
21.
A plan by General Scott that included a naval blockade, gaining control of the Mississippi River, and 
a)
Total War
b)
the Anaconda Plan
c)
Divid and Conquer
d)
The Cottonmouth Plan
22.
Sherman's March to the Sea campaign was to...
a)
convince France and Britain to get out of the war
b)
capture the important railroad depot at Charleston
c)
permanently destroy Georgia's ability to produce cotton
d)
destroy the South's strategic and economic will to fight
23.
____________ left many cities destroyed, the landscape torched, and the livestock killed?
a)
the Anaconda Plan
b)
Lincoln's 10% Plan
c)
attack on Fort Sumter
d)
Sherman's March to the Sea
24.
The new form of technology that was used to try and end the blockades?
a)
the railroad
b)
telegraph
c)
submarine
d)
steamboats