WorksheetsUnit 3 Study Guide
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 1hrs 12mins
T/F: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the North & South.
True
False
What was the BIGGEST effect of the election of Lincoln as the U.S. President?
South Carolina seceded from the Union because they believed Lincoln would abolish slavery
Lincoln was not on the Southern ballots
Democrats could not agree on how slavery would be explained in their platform
The south was afraid that they would not have a voice
Which of the following was NOT technology widely used during the Civil War?
Battleships
Ironclad ships
Rifl ed Firearms
Minié Ball
Grenades
Which of the following did Lincoln NOT do that increased the power of his presidency?
Intimidated voters in the Southern States
Illegally proclaimed a blockade of the South
Proclaimed acts without Congressional consent
Sent in troops to the Border States
Suspended habeas corpus so that anti-Unionists could be arrested
Which of the following was not one of the economic stresses of the Civil War?
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
The North passed the Morrill Tariff Act, increasing tariff rates by about 5% to 10%, but war
soon drove those rates even higher
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
The federal Treasury made a profi t of $2.6 Billion from the sale of war bonds
The most prominent abolitionist voice that lectured against slavery throughout the U.S. and Great Britain & started the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star.
Frederick Douglas
Angelina Grimké
Sarah Grimké
William Lloyd Garrison
This abolitionist was well known for leading a slave revolt & murdering white men, women, & children.
Nat Turner
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
Which best describes the economic situation of many African Americans in the South after the Civil War?
Slavery was replaced by the cycle of poverty through sharecropping & tenant farming
Mining provided the best opportunities
Advances in technology brought an end to agricultural work
Opportunities in the South outnumbered those in the North
Developed by abolitionists and their allies as a secret escape route to help slaves fi nd freedom in the North and Canada.
Underground Railroad
Fugitive Slave Laws
Abolitionist Highway
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the most important impact of the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on America?
The book fueled Northern abolitionist protests
The book sold 1 MILLION copies in 2 yrs.
The novel was about the escape of a slave & the death of another
The book gave people a false picture of slavery
What did the South want if their demands for stricter fugitive slave laws were not met?
Secession
War
A recount in the election
North to pay them for runaway slaves
Which of the following was NOT a position on slavery in the U.S. during the early 1800s?
Some believed that slavery needed to end immediately due to its immorality.
Some agreed that though slavery is morally wrong it was the most effi cient method to have a
healthy economy.
Some thought the system was fi ne the way it was & slavery was a benefi t to the county’s
economy.
Some wanted the U.S. to spearhead a military movement to force countries to adopt slavery.
Which of the following did not happen in the south due to low morale?
The south gave a false surrender but kept fi ghting
Troops deserted to the Union
Peace movements in the southern states
The Confederates called for an armistice
Northerners who moved south to make money
Carpetbaggers
Scalawag
Exodusters
Copperheads
What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do?
Helped former enslaved people with school, jobs, and housing.
Registered former slaves for the purpose of collecting their debts for Southern governments.
Had as a major goal of assisting Black women start their own businesses and buy property.
Supported indigenous populations, specifi cally the Cherokee of Georgia.
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?
Booth believed Lincoln waged war upon Southern rights and institutions
Booth was fulfi lling a family feud
Booth believed that Lincoln was pursuing his wife
Booth believed that Lincoln has made an alliance with Russia to defeat the South
Which of the following was NOT a reason the southern states left the Union?
Democrat party seemed to threaten rights of slave holders
Many thought secession would be unopposed
Southern leaders wanted to be independent from the North
Southern leaders favored State’s rights instead of a large Federal Government
Which of the following was NOT used to keep African Americans from voting?
Military Intimidation
Literacy tests
Intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan
Poll taxes
The South was divided into fi ve military districts under the Reconstruction Act so that:
Union soldiers could ensure that Southerners were following Reconstruction law
They would be able to develop their own army
To uphold Jim Crow laws
To make sure slaves were being kept on their plantation
In the Compromise of 1877, Hayes was elected President if he agreed to:
remove the last Union troops from the South & end the Reconstruction Act
support the 14th and 15th amendments
outlaw the Ku Klux Klan & execute its leaders
allow Jim Crow Laws to be enacted in the Southern states
What happened on June 19th, 1865?
Union soldiers arrived in Texas and freed the last remaining 250,000 slaves
The Confederate Army surrendered
The 13th Amendment was ratifi ed
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Lincoln
Why did Britain not ally with the South?
Because of their stance on slavery
Because they were still mad from the Revolution
Because the South stopped trading cotton with them
Because they were busy fi ghting with Napoleon
What is true of the Wade-Davis Bill?
Stated that 50% of voters in Southern states must take the oath of allegiance to the United
States.
Was drafted by Congressional Democrats in 1864.
Passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Lincoln.
All of the above.
In 1859 this abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to insight a slave insurrection.
John Brown
Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
military leadership
industrial capacity
larger population
food production
T/F: "Stonewall" Jackson was killed by Ulysses S. Grant in Chancellorsville.
True
False
Which of the following is NOT true on President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
Place more war debt on the Confederate states
Each state had to withdraw its secession
Citizens had to swear allegiance to the U.S.
He pardoned Confederate soldiers
“Jim Crow” was—
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.
A nickname given to any free Black man running for political offi ce in the South.
The free Black man who started the movement that founded the free nation of Liberia in
Africa.
A former Confederate soldier who led Southerners in supporting the rights of free Black
people.
Lincoln's main purpose for enacting the Emancipation Proclamation was that it ___.
kept Great Britain out of the war
immediately freed Southern slaves
gave a moral purpose to the war
united the Republican Party
Sherman's march caused what?
The re-election of Lincoln
The South's surrender
The South to regroup & fi ght harder
The death of Lincoln in Atlanta
Why was Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan sometimes called “The 10% Plan?”
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.
It called for a 10% tax on Southern products to pay their Civil War debts.
Southern states would be required to provide employment for 10% of the freed Blacks in
their population.
None of these
Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Anaconda plan?
Send troops up the Mississippi River to split the Union in two
Send troops down the Mississippi River to split the Confederacy in two
Blockade ports
Take the capital city
Which of the following was NOT a decision of the Dredd Scott Supreme Court Case?
Allowed Slaves to become citizens of the U.S.
Slaves did not have the rights as citizens
Scott was ruled a slave in Missouri.
The Missouri Compromise was ruled unconstitutional, because Congress could not forbid
slavery in the territories.
What were the Black Codes?
Laws passed in the South that limited the rights of free Black people
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
A code of conduct freed Black people created to ensure community-wide respect, fairness,
and inclusion
Laws passed in the South that guaranteed the civil rights of all Black people
Northerners who wanted peace with the South were known as what?
Copperheads
Scallywags
Carpet Baggers
Exodusters
How was sharecropping similar to the old plantation system?
Freed Black people ended up working plantations again for very little (if any) money.
By becoming sharecroppers, freed Black people agreed to give up all of their new rights as
promised by the 13th, 14th, and 15th
Plantations returned to producing massive amounts of rice and beans, which had always been
their main products.
Sharecropping was not similar at all to the old plantation system.
