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Standard 3 Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following temporarily relieved some sectional tensions for the time being in the 19th century?

a)

The Compromise of 1850

b)

The Three-Fifths Compromise

c)

The Great Compromise

d)

The Missouri Compromise

2.

Which state entered the union as a free state and which entered as a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise

a)

Texas entered as a slave state, California entered as a free state

b)

Missouri entered as a slave state, Maine entered as a free state

c)

Maine entered as a slave state, Missouri entered as a free state

d)

California entered as a slave state, Texas entered as a free state

3.

What was the basis of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

a)

That slavery was taking away from American pride.

b)

That African Americans' rights were protected by the Constitution.

c)

That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens.

d)

That slavery should be abolished immediately.

4.

The Missouri Compromise created what line of latitude that stated slavery would be permitted below the line, but not above it?

a)

54'40

b)

36'30

c)

12'76

d)

18'50

5.

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

a)

A stricter fugitive slave act was enacted

b)

California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state

c)

Slavery was prohibited in all territories gained by the Mexican Cession

d)

The southwest territories would determine their free vs slave status via popular sovereignty

6.
The Battle of Vicksburg was important in the Civil War because it --
a)
allowed the Confederate army to seize Washington D.C.
b)
broke the Union blockade along the Gulf of Mexico
c)
enabled the Confederate army to seek French assistance
d)
gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River
7.
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln maintained that the war was being fought to 
a)
uphold national honor
b)
prevent foreign involvement
c)
free all slave 
d)
preserve the Union
8.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." -- Abraham Lincoln 1858
According to this quotation, Abraham Lincoln believed that
a)
slavery was immoral and should be abolished immediately
b)
sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union
c)
the Souther states should be allowed to secede
d)
to save the nation, the North should compromise with the South on slavery
9.

How many slaves were actually freed through the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

All

b)

Only slaves in the Border States

c)

About half

d)

None

10.

Lincoln gained the confidence to order the emancipation of the slaves due to the victory of the Union army in this battle:

a)

Battle of Gettysburg

b)

Battle of Antietam

c)

Battle of Fredericksburg

d)

Battle of Shiloh

e)

Battle of Fort Sumter

11.
Which amendment abolished slavery?
a)
13th
b)
14th
c)
15th
d)
19th
12.
What group gained control of Congress after Lincoln's assassination?
a)
Southern Democrats
b)
Former Confederates
c)
Radical Republicans
d)
Communists 
13.
The 15th amendment gave the right to vote to
a)
All African Americans
b)
African American men
c)
Native Americans
d)
White Women
14.
Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from the South in order to win the Presidency in the Election of 1876. This--
a)
started Reconstruction
b)
got him impeached
c)
made Southern Democrats angry
d)
ended Reconstruction
15.
How did the 14th amendment overrule the Dred Scott decision?
a)
It abolished slavery
b)
It said slaves could vote
c)
It protected African Americans as equal citizens
d)
It said that African Americans could move north
16.
Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as
a)
Scalawags
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Carpetbaggers
d)
Sharecroppers
17.

Which of the following is true about sharecropping

a)

Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

b)

Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

c)

Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

d)

Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

18.
Which African American leader believed in full political, civil and social rights rather than to accept social segregation?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
J.P. Morgan
c)
W.E.B. DuBois
d)
Frederick Douglass
19.
Which of the following believed equality could be achieved through vocational education and accepted social segregation?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
20.
Which of the following was upheld by the Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson?
a)
Chinese Exclusion Act
b)
Prohibition
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Voting Rights

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