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Unit 3 Study Guide

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 1hrs 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

T/F: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the North & South.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

What was the BIGGEST effect of the election of Lincoln as the U.S. President?

a)

South Carolina seceded from the Union because they believed Lincoln would abolish slavery

b)

Lincoln was not on the Southern ballots

c)

Democrats could not agree on how slavery would be explained in their platform

d)

The south was afraid that they would not have a voice

3.

Which of the following was NOT technology widely used during the Civil War?

a)

Battleships

b)

Ironclad ships

c)

Rifl ed Firearms

d)

Minié Ball

e)

Grenades

4.

Which of the following did Lincoln NOT do that increased the power of his presidency?

a)

Intimidated voters in the Southern States

b)

Illegally proclaimed a blockade of the South

c)

Proclaimed acts without Congressional consent

d)

Sent in troops to the Border States

e)

Suspended habeas corpus so that anti-Unionists could be arrested

5.

Which of the following was not one of the economic stresses of the Civil War?

a)

In the North, infl ation plagued the Union, and overall, in the North infl ation went up to

9000%, as opposed to just 80% in the South

b)

The North passed the Morrill Tariff Act, increasing tariff rates by about 5% to 10%, but war

soon drove those rates even higher

c)

The Washington Treasury issued green-backed paper bills, but this currency was very

unstable and sank to as low as 39 cents per gold dollar

d)

The federal Treasury made a profi t of $2.6 Billion from the sale of war bonds

6.

The most prominent abolitionist voice that lectured against slavery throughout the U.S. and Great Britain & started the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star.

a)

Frederick Douglas

b)

Angelina Grimké

c)

Sarah Grimké

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

7.

This abolitionist was well known for leading a slave revolt & murdering white men, women, & children.

a)

Nat Turner

b)

John Brown

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Frederick Douglas

8.

Which best describes the economic situation of many African Americans in the South after the Civil War?

a)

Slavery was replaced by the cycle of poverty through sharecropping & tenant farming

b)

Mining provided the best opportunities

c)

Advances in technology brought an end to agricultural work

d)

Opportunities in the South outnumbered those in the North

9.

Developed by abolitionists and their allies as a secret escape route to help slaves fi nd freedom in the North and Canada.

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Fugitive Slave Laws

c)

Abolitionist Highway

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

10.

What was the most important impact of the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on America?

a)

The book fueled Northern abolitionist protests

b)

The book sold 1 MILLION copies in 2 yrs.

c)

The novel was about the escape of a slave & the death of another

d)

The book gave people a false picture of slavery

11.

What did the South want if their demands for stricter fugitive slave laws were not met?

a)

Secession

b)

War

c)

A recount in the election

d)

North to pay them for runaway slaves

12.

Which of the following was NOT a position on slavery in the U.S. during the early 1800s?

a)

Some believed that slavery needed to end immediately due to its immorality.

b)

Some agreed that though slavery is morally wrong it was the most effi cient method to have a

healthy economy.

c)

Some thought the system was fi ne the way it was & slavery was a benefi t to the county’s

economy.

d)

Some wanted the U.S. to spearhead a military movement to force countries to adopt slavery.

13.

Which of the following did not happen in the south due to low morale?

a)

The south gave a false surrender but kept fi ghting

b)

Troops deserted to the Union

c)

Peace movements in the southern states

d)

The Confederates called for an armistice

14.

Northerners who moved south to make money

a)

Carpetbaggers

b)

Scalawag

c)

Exodusters

d)

Copperheads

15.

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do?

a)

Helped former enslaved people with school, jobs, and housing.

b)

Registered former slaves for the purpose of collecting their debts for Southern governments.

c)

Had as a major goal of assisting Black women start their own businesses and buy property.

d)

Supported indigenous populations, specifi cally the Cherokee of Georgia.

16.

At the conclusion of the Civil War President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Which of the following is the BEST reason Booth gave for the assassination?

a)

Booth believed Lincoln waged war upon Southern rights and institutions

b)

Booth was fulfi lling a family feud

c)

Booth believed that Lincoln was pursuing his wife

d)

Booth believed that Lincoln has made an alliance with Russia to defeat the South

17.

Which of the following was NOT a reason the southern states left the Union?

a)

Democrat party seemed to threaten rights of slave holders

b)

Many thought secession would be unopposed

c)

Southern leaders wanted to be independent from the North

d)

Southern leaders favored State’s rights instead of a large Federal Government

18.

Which of the following was NOT used to keep African Americans from voting?

a)

Military Intimidation

b)

Literacy tests

c)

Intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan

d)

Poll taxes

19.

The South was divided into fi ve military districts under the Reconstruction Act so that:

a)

Union soldiers could ensure that Southerners were following Reconstruction law

b)

They would be able to develop their own army

c)

To uphold Jim Crow laws

d)

To make sure slaves were being kept on their plantation

20.

In the Compromise of 1877, Hayes was elected President if he agreed to:

a)

remove the last Union troops from the South & end the Reconstruction Act

b)

support the 14th and 15th amendments

c)

outlaw the Ku Klux Klan & execute its leaders

d)

allow Jim Crow Laws to be enacted in the Southern states

21.

What happened on June 19th, 1865?

a)

Union soldiers arrived in Texas and freed the last remaining 250,000 slaves

b)

The Confederate Army surrendered

c)

The 13th Amendment was ratifi ed

d)

The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Lincoln

22.

Why did Britain not ally with the South?

a)

Because of their stance on slavery

b)

Because they were still mad from the Revolution

c)

Because the South stopped trading cotton with them

d)

Because they were busy fi ghting with Napoleon

23.

What is true of the Wade-Davis Bill?

a)

Stated that 50% of voters in Southern states must take the oath of allegiance to the United

States.

b)

Was drafted by Congressional Democrats in 1864.

c)

Passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Lincoln.

d)

All of the above.

24.

In 1859 this abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to insight a slave insurrection.

a)

John Brown

b)

Nat Turner

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Frederick Douglas

25.

In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?

a)

military leadership

b)

industrial capacity

c)

larger population

d)

food production

26.

T/F: "Stonewall" Jackson was killed by Ulysses S. Grant in Chancellorsville.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Which of the following is NOT true on President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?

a)

Place more war debt on the Confederate states

b)

Each state had to withdraw its secession

c)

Citizens had to swear allegiance to the U.S.

d)

He pardoned Confederate soldiers

28.

“Jim Crow” was—

a)

An era in which white supremacists took power across of the South, segregation became the

norm, and Southern states found ways to strip free Black citizens of their new civil rights.

b)

A nickname given to any free Black man running for political offi ce in the South.

c)

The free Black man who started the movement that founded the free nation of Liberia in

Africa.

d)

A former Confederate soldier who led Southerners in supporting the rights of free Black

people.

29.

Lincoln's main purpose for enacting the Emancipation Proclamation was that it ___.

a)

kept Great Britain out of the war

b)

immediately freed Southern slaves

c)

gave a moral purpose to the war

d)

united the Republican Party

30.

Sherman's march caused what?

a)

The re-election of Lincoln

b)

The South's surrender

c)

The South to regroup & fi ght harder

d)

The death of Lincoln in Atlanta

31.

Why was Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan sometimes called “The 10% Plan?”

a)

10% of each Southern state’s voters were required to pledge loyalty to the United States and

support emancipation before that state was readmitted into the Union.

b)

It called for a 10% tax on Southern products to pay their Civil War debts.

c)

Southern states would be required to provide employment for 10% of the freed Blacks in

their population.

d)

None of these

32.

Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Anaconda plan?

a)

Send troops up the Mississippi River to split the Union in two

b)

Send troops down the Mississippi River to split the Confederacy in two

c)

Blockade ports

d)

Take the capital city

33.

Which of the following was NOT a decision of the Dredd Scott Supreme Court Case?

a)

Allowed Slaves to become citizens of the U.S.

b)

Slaves did not have the rights as citizens

c)

Scott was ruled a slave in Missouri.

d)

The Missouri Compromise was ruled unconstitutional, because Congress could not forbid

slavery in the territories.

34.

What were the Black Codes?

a)

Laws passed in the South that limited the rights of free Black people

b)

A written code system used by freed Blacks in the South to secretly communicate with and

assist the Black slaves of Haiti who were planning a revolution against white French

plantation owners

c)

A code of conduct freed Black people created to ensure community-wide respect, fairness,

and inclusion

d)

Laws passed in the South that guaranteed the civil rights of all Black people

35.

Northerners who wanted peace with the South were known as what?

a)

Copperheads

b)

Scallywags

c)

Carpet Baggers

d)

Exodusters

36.

How was sharecropping similar to the old plantation system?

a)

Freed Black people ended up working plantations again for very little (if any) money.

b)

By becoming sharecroppers, freed Black people agreed to give up all of their new rights as

promised by the 13th, 14th, and 15th

c)

Plantations returned to producing massive amounts of rice and beans, which had always been

their main products.

d)

Sharecropping was not similar at all to the old plantation system.