CIVIL WAR TEST REVIEW

QUESTION Which heading best completes the partial Outline below? Uncle Tom's Cabin PublishedCongress Passes Kansas-Nebraska ActJohn Brown leads attack at Harpers Ferry

ANSWER Events leading to Civil War Events leading to Civil War

QUESTION Which document is considered a primary source from the Civil War?

ANSWER A letter from the wife of a soldier during the war.

QUESTION NorthSouth IndustrialAgricultural More CitiesMainly rural Many factoriesFew factories Slavery widely opposedSlavery widely supported Which conclusion related to the Civil War can be drawn from the information in this chart?

ANSWER Sectionalism was based on social and economic differences. Sectionalism was based on social and economic differences.

QUESTION What was the immediate cause of the secession of Southern states from the Union prior to the start of the Civil War?

ANSWER Election of Abraham Lincoln

QUESTION The Underground Railroad was developed in the 1840s in order to

ANSWER Help runaway slaves escape to freedom.

QUESTION Which Civil War event occurred first?

ANSWER Firing on Fort Sumter

QUESTION Which abolitionist leader was a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad?

ANSWER Harriet Tubman

QUESTION By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln

ANSWER Broadened Union war goals to include ending slavery.

QUESTION Abolition, the Underground Railroad, and the Dred Scott decision would all be included in a discussion of

ANSWER Slavery

QUESTION The election of 1860 showed how

ANSWER Deeply divided the nation over slavery.

QUESTION Why did Anti-Federalists oppose a new U.S. Constitution?

ANSWER Anti Federalists favored strong state governments rather than a strong central government.

QUESTION What is the reason for having multiple branches of government?

ANSWER The power is divided to keep any one branch from becoming too powerful.

QUESTION In the election of 1860, which region of the country Supported John C. Breckenridge?

ANSWER South

QUESTION Which concept is most clearly illustrated by the election results shown in this map?

ANSWER Sectionalism

QUESTION An issue that divided the North and South and led to Civil War was the

ANSWER Balance of power between the states and the federal government

QUESTION According to this excerpt, Federalists like Alexander Hamilton supported which of the following? “If the states are United under one government, there will be but national civil list to support; if they are divided into several confederacies, there will be as many different national civil lists to be provided for…” - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers #13

ANSWER Unifying the thirteen states under one federal government Unifying the thirteen states under one federal government

QUESTION Based on the image, what was the purpose of the Anaconda Plan?

ANSWER To surround the Southern states and cut off trade.

QUESTION Based on the location of North Carolina, how would the famers in the state be affected by the Anaconda plan?

ANSWER The plan would prevent farmers from shipping goods overseas.

QUESTION a) According to Abraham Lincoln, what was the only major disagreement between the North and the South? b) According to Jefferson Davis, why did the south secede from the Union? c) In his address, Lincoln compares the country to a married couple getting divorced for what purpose? d) In his address, Jefferson Davis states that by leaving the Union, the South “illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed…” What is he suggesting? “One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute… Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this… In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.” Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 “Our present position… illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish a government whenever it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established. Through many years of controversy with our late associates, the Northern States, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquility and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice we have resorted to separation, and henceforth our energies must be devoted to the conducting of our own affairs, and perpetuating the Confederacy we have formed…” Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Address, February 18, 1861

ANSWER A) A) Whether or not the south should be able to leave the Union. B) B) People in the Southern states were being denied their rights C) To show how much more difficult it would be to split and separate a country. D) He suggests that it is the right of the people to change the government when they no longer agree with how it is operating.

QUESTION A) A) Who is Lincoln referring to when he says “dissatisfied fellow countrymen”? B) B) What does Davis say the South must do next? “One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute… Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this… In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.” Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 “Our present position… illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish a government whenever it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established. Through many years of controversy with our late associates, the Northern States, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquility and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice we have resorted to separation, and henceforth our energies must be devoted to the conducting of our own affairs, and perpetuating the Confederacy we have formed…” Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Address, February 18, 1861

ANSWER A) A) Citizens in the South B) B) Alter or abolish the government

QUESTION The phrase “Bleeding Kansas” refers to clashes between…

ANSWER Pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.

QUESTION As a result of the Civil War, the…

ANSWER Federal Government’s power over the States was strengthened.

QUESTION Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to…

ANSWER Preserve the Union.

QUESTION Before the Civil War, slavery expanded in the South rather than in the North because.

ANSWER Geographic conditions in the South encouraged the development of large plantations

QUESTION “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” -Abraham Lincoln, 1858 The “divided house” referred to in this speech was caused primarily by…

ANSWER Sectional differences.

QUESTION The Emancipation Proclamation “freed” slaves in which of the following areas?

ANSWER Confederate areas still in rebellion

QUESTION Which statement is best supported by the data in the table?

ANSWER More soldiers died from disease than from wounds

QUESTION President Abraham Lincoln argued against the secession of the Southern States based on the fact that…

ANSWER The government was a union of people and not of states.

QUESTION Slavery officially came to end in the United States with the passage of the…

ANSWER Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.

QUESTION Why did North Carolina and neighboring states support the “three-fifths” compromise? How can the Union be saved? To this I answer…by adopting such measures as will satisfy the states belonging to the Southern section that they can remain in the Union consistently with their honor and their safety…The south asks for justice, simple justice…she has no compromise to offer but the Constitution…If you are unwilling we should part in peace, tell us so. – John C. Calhoun (The Clay Compromise Measures, March 4, 1850) I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American…we live in the midst of strong agitations…the North and the stormy South combine to throw the whole sea into commotion…I speak today for the preservation of the Union…Peaceable secession! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. –Daniel Webster, The Constitution and the Union Speech, March 7, 1850

ANSWER States with higher slave populations would gain more representatives in the House of Representatives.

QUESTION Which statement explains the dominance of slavery in the coastal region of North Carolina?

ANSWER Slave ships arrived at the ports of Wilmington, Edenton, and Bath.

QUESTION According to the excerpt, how did the Kansas-Nebraska Act address the issue of slavery? That the Constitution, and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Kansas as elsewhere within the United States, except the [Missouri Compromise], which…is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it…but to leave the people perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. – Section 32 from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

ANSWER It made slavery an issue to be decided by residents of the states.

QUESTION The Missouri Compromise

ANSWER upset the balance between slave and free states in the Senate.

QUESTION In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that slavery

ANSWER Could not be kept out of the territories.

QUESTION A) A) This ground, Lincoln says, has been "consecrated" by the "men... who struggled here." What is the meaning of consecrated? B) B) What does Lincoln mean by the “unfinished work” of those who fought at Gettysburg? C) C) Based on the text above, what does Lincoln want for all Americans? An excerpt from the Gettysburg Address, 1863: But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

ANSWER A) A) made sacred B) B) The Union’s fight for freedom. C) C) A Government for the people, with freedom for all

QUESTION A) Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation? A) Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation? B) B) In which states does Lincoln declare all “persons held as slaves” free? C) C) How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the Union’s motivation of the Civil War? An excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation: “On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State in rebellion against the United States, shall be forever free…”

ANSWER A) A) Abraham Lincoln B) B) Confederate States C) C) Made it a war of freedom and liberation.

QUESTION What event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?

ANSWER South Carolina’s shelling of Fort Sumter

QUESTION Articles of Confederation Constitution of the United States No states are sovereign Sovereignty divided between states and federal government No Executive BranchExecutive Branch No Federal Courts- laws enforced by States Judicial Branch enforces federal laws Each state has one vote Congressional votes by Representatives and Senators Amended by approval of all states Amended with approval of ¾ of states A major weakness of the United States government under the Articles of Confederation was that…

ANSWER The national government could not enforce its laws

QUESTION We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. – Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America The preamble to the constitution states that the purpose of government is based on the belief that… The preamble to the constitution states that the purpose of government is based on the belief that…

ANSWER People should be free and self governing People should be free and self governing

QUESTION “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” – United States Constitution 10 th Amendment The principle of government inferred in this amendment is….

ANSWER The powers of the national government are limited