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WorksheetsStandard 3 Review
Total questions: 87
Worksheet time: 29mins
David Wilmot authored the "Wilmot Proviso" which was
An amendment to the Constitution to end slavery.
A proposal to keep all western territories free from slavery or "free soil".
An agreement to allow Missouri in as a free state but prohibit future states from entering above the 36°30′ line.
The documentation to annex Texas as a state.
The Oregon Territory was divided at the:
36°30′
18th parallel
54°40'
38th parallel
What event propelled the populating of California and lead to it becoming a state quicker?
Yukon Gold Rush
The Gold Rush
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
Which of the following is NOT a condition of the Compromise of 1850?
California joins as a free state.
Maine was admitted as a free state.
Ended selling of slaves in Washington D.C.
A new Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
Which congressional action is described?
California becomes a free state.
Strict fugitive slave laws adopted
banned slave trading in Washington D.C.
New Southwest states vote to have slavery
Tariff of Abomination
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The California Gold Rush led to which of the following?
Dred Scott Decision
Kansas Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
What was referred to as the "peculiar institution"?
slavery
textile mills
the industrial revolution
popular sovereignty
Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory
Residents could vote on the issue of slavery
Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska
Allowed slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska
Which of the following best describes the "Pottawatomie Massacre"?
Proslavery settlers attacked the antislavery town of Lawrence
The proslavery town of Spencerville was attacked by the Cherokee
John Brown and his sons attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry
John Brown and his sons murdered five proslavery settlers in Kansas
Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?
A violent slave uprising led by Joseph Cinque
Violence in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers prior to the Civil War
The turning point of the Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee's army was routed from Kansas
The devastation caused by a tornado in Kansas in 1854, which killed 55 people
Which member of Congress gave a speech criticizing the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Senator Stephen Douglas
Senator Andrew Butler
Senator Charles Sumner
Congressman Preston Brooks
Free soil means _____________, while abolition means ______________
All slaves should eventually be freed; slavery should immediately end
Slavery should only be allowed to exist where it currently does and not be allowed to spread; slavery should end immediately
Slaves should be able to work towards their freedom; slavery should end, but only if voted on by the people of the state.
Slavery should note expand unless the free people of the state vote for it to; slavery should end with the passage of an amendment
Why did Free Soilers not want slavery to expand into the territories?
They were morally opposed to slavery
They believed it would take away jobs from whites
They believed that the territories should be a place where Whites and Blacks can make a living
Slavery gave an unfair advantage to slaves
Abraham Lincoln was:
a free soiler
an abolitionist
pro-slavery
an eastern industrialist who opposed slavery
Southern forces removed the federal forces from ___________ , in the Charleston Harbor, as the first major act of secession and began the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Fort Jackson
Fort McHenry
Fort Donelson
Which of the following IS NOT an advantage the Union had during the Civil War?
Industry
Slavery
Manpower
Navy
three times the railroad
What strategy did the Union use to disrupt southern trade at the ports?
blockade
siege warfare
military prisons
tariffs
Mexican War hero, Winfield Scott, devised a plan to blockade the Confederacy and split it at the Mississippi River and and take the Confederate capital of Richmond. It was called:
The Confederate Blockade
The Anaconda Plan
The Gettysburg Address
The Confederate Siege
Two times the Confederate forces invaded the North and were defeated:
Bull Run and The Wilderness
Antietam and Gettysburg
Yorktown and Saratoga
Fort Sumter and Fort McHenry
The head of the entire Confederate Army was:
PGT Beauregard
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston
The Confederacy had an advantage in __________________, while the Union had an advantage in_____________________.
military leadership; political leadership
political leadership; military leadership
The president of the Confederacy was:
Robert E. Lee
Joseph Johnston
Stonewall Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln made slavery the central focus of the Civil War by issuing the:
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
13th Amendment
Writ of Haebus Corpus
The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on:
January 1, 1863
July 4, 1865
December 25, 1862
September 17, 1863
Best-known African American regiment during the war
Army of Northern Virginia
Buffalo Soldiers
The Lost Prophets
54th Massachusetts
The 54th Massachusetts lead an unsuccessful charge against the Confederate Forces at:
Fort Sumter
Fort Wagner
Bull Rull
Gettysburg
What was the basis of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?
That slavery was taking away from American pride.
That African Americans' rights were protected by the Constitution.
That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens.
That slavery should be abolished immediately.
Secessionists believed that:
The federal government, under the leadership of President Lincoln would not allow slavery to expand into the territories
Annexation of Cuba would be the best viable option for expanding slavery since President Lincoln was a free soiler.
If southerners could get a proslavery vice president into the White House to counterbalance free soiler Abraham Lincoln, then all would be preserved.
The state governments of the South had to petition to Congress for an extension of slavery into the territories.
Which state led the secessionist movement?
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Texas
The seceding states formed the:
The United States of Secession
The Secessionist States of America
The Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of the South
The first actual battle of the Civil War was:
First Bull Run (southerner referred to it as Manassas)
Antietam
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
The significance of First Bull Run (Manassas) was:
It ended the South's hopes of winning the War
It proved that the South was a formidable (tough) army and the War was not going to be a quick war like everyone expected.
It was the first time Blacks fought in a battle as a regiment in American history.
It was the bloodiest single day in all of the War with over 22,000 dead, wounded or missing at the end of the day.
Which of the following was the single bloodiest day of the War with over 22,000 killed, wounded or missing at the end of the day?
Antietam
First Bull Run
Gettysburg
Savannah
Which battle in the West effectively split the Confederacy once and for all and made US Grant a war hero ultimately promoted to commander of the entire United States Army (Army of the Potomoc)?
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
The Wilderness
The Peninsula Campaign
US Grant laid siege to which city for six weeks, ultimately gaining control of the Mississippi River and breaking the Confederacy?
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Cold Harbor
Spotsylvania
This battle was seen as the turning point of the War. After this battle the Confederacy never won any major battles and Robert E. Lee was seen as a failed General.
Gettysburg
Antietam
Vicksburg
Columbia
As an act of total war, this city was burned to the ground and signaled the end of the War.
Atlanta
Sharpsburg
Charleston
Birmingham
Which commander devised the idea of "total war"?
William Tecumseh Sherman
George McClellan
Robert E. Lee
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Which of the following is an example of "total war"?
March to the Sea
Siege of Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Andersonville Prison Camp
Lee's surrender to Grant came at:
Appomattox Court House
Gettysburg
Atlanta
Savannah
The goal of reconstruction was to
fully re-establish the South into political participation and to accept defeat and the emancipation of slaves
fully rebuild the South with its bombed out and burned out cities and to accept defeat and gradually emancipate the slaves
to force the southern states to accept federal aid as a compromise for ending slavery
to give the South an opportunity to repair enough of their society to eventually be allowed back into the Union
Radical Republicans believed in:
punishing the South for secession
Accepting the South back into the Union with much greater speed than previously believed
making the southern states repay all of their financial debts before they were accepted back into the Union
The South should never be readmitted
To better enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, Congress passed the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 which:
carved the South into five military districts
disbanded the Confederate Army
pushed forward the trials of those who served in the Confederate Army, which resulted in thousands being hanged for treason
accepted former Confederate soldiers back into the Union Army.
The Thirteenth Amendment:
Abolished Slavery
Made Black Citizens
Gave Black males the right to vote
The Fourteenth Amendment:
Abolished Slavery
Made Blacks citizens
Gave Black males the right to vote
The Fifteenth Amendment:
Abolished slavery
Made Blacks citizens
Gave Black males the right to vote
Groups, like the Ku Klux Klan, who engaged in violence to intimidate freedmen were:
vigilante groups
repatriation groups
freedom fighters
homeland security
Southern states quickly passed _______________ to replace their old slave codes to keep Blacks in bondage
Black Codes
Reconstruction Amendments
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
Iron Clad Oaths
Andrew Johnson was chosen by Lincoln as a running mate because he was a southern Unionist. This
balanced the ticket
created great stress between he and Lincoln
gave the South a voice in the White House
ended when Johnson was impeached
Blacks who left the South to travel West after the Civil War to start over were called:
carpetbaggers
exodusters
vigilantes
scalawags
Which Black leader established the Tuskegee Institute as one of the premier centers for Black academia in the post Civil War era?
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Northerners who traveled South after the Civil War to dominate politics and business were derisively called:
carpetbaggers
vigilantes
scalawags
freedmen
Southerners who often became Republicans and who were in favor of quick Reconstruction and teamed up with northerners were known as:
carpetbaggers
scalawags
vigilantes
freedmen's bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau famously promised ____________________ to freedmen, but it never came to pass.
"forty acres and mule"
the right to vote
"no more cotton pickin'"
reparations at the first of every month
As White southerners were readmitted to the Union, gained full access to politics and began to vote again, they vowed to _______________ southern governments, or return to power and save the South
redeem
repatriate
reflect
remonstrate
Once White southerners regained political control of the South, they forged the ____________________, which meant that the entirety of the South was dominated by Democrats. (This lasted until the Civil Rights Era)
Solid South
Vigilantes
Unbroken Dixie
Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 determined that:
The presidential election of 1876 would stand and federal troops would withdraw from the South
The presidential election of 1876 would not stand and federal troops would remain in the South
US Grant would remain president for one more term and the South would get more seats in Congress
The inauguration would be moved from March to January
"Separate but Equal" was determined in which Supreme Court case?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board
Marbury v. Madison
Poll taxes and literacy tests were ways that southern governments
kept Blacks as second class citizens by denying them the right to vote
allowed Blacks to fully participate in democracy for the first time since the passage of the Reconstruction amendments
gave Blacks another avenue for voting
were able to become fully involved with the federal government aftet the War
Many Blacks migrated to the North:
to escape Jim Crow
to work in the factories in the North
to work on farms
to go back to where their families were originally from
Which Black leader is associated with "accommodation" or gradualism towards Whites?
George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Ida Wells Barnett
Which Black leader opposed "accommodation" or gradualism and advocated instant equality and for the "talented tenth" of well educated Black leaders?
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Ida Wells Barnett
George Washington Carver
In Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" speech, he:
suggested that he was willing to accept second class citizenship offered by Jim Crow laws like literacy tests and poll taxes, in exchange for jobs that would alleviate the poverty of Blacks.
stated that literacy tests and poll taxes should be outlawed and that their mere existence showed that the Reconstruction Amendments were no more than appeasement to Radical Republicans
gave a scathing rebuke of any accomodationists and claimed that by working with the White man, Blacks were doomed to never have any true freedom
offered a repatriation plan to move Black to Africa
WEB DuBois helped found which political and social rights organization?
NAACP
The First Responders
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Carpetbaggers Alliance
Segregation by law is ______________________, segregation by practice, but not by law is ____________________
de jure segregation; de facto segregation
de facto segregation; de jure segregation
Which Supreme Court case ended segregation and killed Jim Crow?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board
Buck v. Bell
Marbury v. Madison
Which of the following IS NOT true about Ida Wells Barnett?
she was a former slave
she was a teacher who lost her job for speaking out against segregation in the Memphis school system she worked in
spent most of her life campaigning for laws to end lynching
helped found the NAACP and was an outspoken critic of WEB DuBois and "accomodationism"
worked hand in hand with leaders like DuBois and Washington to ensure the safety of Blacks in the Jim Crow South.
