© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: destined to become a world power. B: a “chosen people” and should multiply. D: to be a religious nation. The US Concept of “Manifest Destiny” reflected the belief that the United States was

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: It allows slavery in Maine but did not allow slavery in Missouri. C: It maintained a balance of power between slave and free states. B: It required that slaves captured in free states be returned to slave states. D: It said that Missouri could have slavery. Which definition best explains the “Missouri Compromise”?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: It maintained a balance of power between slave and free states.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: The Supreme Court ruled against abolitionists saying slaves were not citizens. C: The Supreme Court upheld the legal rights of the southern states and their institution of slavery. B: The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not stop slavery in territories. D: The Supreme Court ruled that slave owners had to be reimbursed for slaves who escaped on the underground railroad. Which statement does not explain how the Dred Scott decision pushed the nation closer to war?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: The Supreme Court ruled that slave owners had to be reimbursed for slaves who escaped on the underground railroad.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state with no slavery. C: Popular Sovereignty was established, allowing states to vote on whether or not to have slavery. B: All slavery was eliminated in the District of Columbia. D: Texas was allowed to annex New Mexico, extending slavery into that territory. According to the terms of the Compromise of 1850,

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. A: California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state with no slavery.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: The slave revolt C: The underground railroad B: The slave code D: Fugitive Slave Law Which was an organized escape plan for southern slaves fleeing their owners?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: The Underground Railroad

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Georgia C: Alabama B: Texas D: Virginia Which southern state was not among the original seven that formed the Confederate States of America in 1861?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: Virginia

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: The conflict between the North and the South over industrial development C: The conflict between North and South over tariffs B: The conflict between slavery and the illegality of slavery D: The conflict between states’ rights and Union rights Which conflict did Georgians face after Lincoln’s election?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: The conflict between states’ rights and Union rights

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: California joined the Union as a free state. C: Texas did not annex New Mexico as a slave territory. B: Slave trading ended in the District of Columbia. D: Congress passed a law allowing fugitive slaves to be returned to their owners. Which result of the Compromise of 1850 did not benefit the North?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: Congress passed a law allowing fugitive slaves to be returned to their owners.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Mary Boykin Chestnut C: Clara Barton B: Phoebe Pember D: Mary Todd Lincoln Which woman was a nurse during the Civil War and went on to establish the American Red Cross?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: Clara Barton

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: industry-based economy. C: agriculture-based economy. B: mixed economy. D: slavery economy. Once slavery was legalized in Georgia in 1751, it grew dramatically because of Georgia’s?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: agriculture-based economy.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Georgia’s Secession Document C: Georgia Platform B: Gettysburg Address D: Emancipation Proclamation Which document said that all slaves in the states in rebellion would be free?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: Emancipation Proclamation

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Gettysburg C: Andersonville B: Antietam D: Chickamauga Which battle was important because it temporarily kept the Union army out of Georgia?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: Chickamauga

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Which Civil War battle location was the “turning point” toward a Union victory? B: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania A: Antietam, Maryland C: Gettysburg, Maryland D: Chickamauga, Georgia

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: It was a railroad center. C: It was located halfway between two state capitals. B: It was a major recruiting center for the South. D: It had a number of factories that produced war supplies. Why was Chickamauga important to the North and South?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. A: It was a railroad center.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Antietam C: Shiloh B: Gettysburg D: Vicksburg Where did the bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War take place?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. A: Antietam

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Sectionalism C: Slavery B: Representation in the U. S. Congress D: States’ Rights Which was not an underlying cause of the Civil War?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: Representation in the U. S. Congress

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: invading each state’s capital C: blockade of Southern ports. B: capturing southern generals. D: foraging civilian supplies. Which Union war strategy prevented the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other supplies?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: blockade of Southern ports

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: the Anaconda Plan C: King Cotton Diplomacy B: the blockade of Southern ports D: foraging civilian supplies Which strategy was NOT part of the North’s plan for winning the war?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: King Cotton Diplomacy

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: capital of the Confederacy. C: industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy. B: most populated city in the Confederacy. D: home of the largest number of slaves in the Confederacy Atlanta’s military importance to the Confederacy and thus a target in the Atlanta Campaign by the Union is that it was the

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Clara Barton C: Harriet Tubman B: William Lloyd Garrison D: Frederick Douglass All of the following were abolitionists EXCEPT

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. A: Clara Barton

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Ulysses S. Grant C: Robert E. Lee B: Stonewall Jackson D: William T. Sherman What Union General led the northern Army on its March to the Sea and saw to it that much of Georgia’s capital resources were destroyed?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: William T. Sherman

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Alcatraz C: Belle Isle B: Andersonville D: Fulton Where was the notorious Confederate prison in Georgia?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: Andersonville

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Henry Wirz C: John Hood B: George Murphy D: John C. Calhoun Who was the commander of the Confederate prison at Andersonville?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. A: Henry Wirz

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: states’ rights C: the Compromise of 1850 B: popular sovereignty D: slavery throughout the US The “Georgia Platform” was a statement supporting?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: the Compromise of 1850

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: It made Missouri a free state. C: It permitted slavery north of Missouri’s southern boundary. B: It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. D: It changed the requirements necessary for a territory to become a state. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act change the Missouri Compromise?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: It permitted slavery north of Missouri’s southern boundary.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to obtain jobs C: require slaves that had runaway to go back to their owners B: prevent slaves from testifying against whites in courts D: prevent slaves from having group gatherings The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act which the Northern Congressmen agreed to add to the Compromise of 1850 was to?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: Require slaves that had runaway to go back to their owners

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Vice President C: Secretary of State B: President D: Secretary of War What official position in the Confederate States of America did Alexander Stephens hold?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: Vice President

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: could not free slaves. C: could ignore national laws that were harmful to the state. B: could leave the Union if they wished. D: interests took precedence over the interest of the national government. States’ rights can best be defined as the belief that states

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: interests took precedence over the interest of the national government.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Joseph Brown C: Robert Toombs B: Thomas Cobb D: Alexander Stephens In 1861, there was a spirited debate in the GA General Assembly about if the state should join the other southern states in breaking away from the Union. Which man called for GA to remain in the Union?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: Alexander Stephens

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: African Slave Trade should be ended immediately. C: A Constitutional Convention should be held to resolve the issue. B: Slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new territories. D: All slaves within the US should be freed within 10 yrs. What was Abraham Lincoln’s official stand on slavery during the Presidential campaign of 1860?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: Slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new territories.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: The North supported high tariffs to subsidize their manufacturing industry C: The South was opposed to this tariff because it took away profit from cotton farmers. B: The South was opposed to tariffs because it raised the price of foreign made goods that they wanted to purchase. D: Great Britain wanted to form an alliance with manufacturing in the North. One states’ rights issue was the nullification crisis in the early 1830s. All of the following are true relating to this crisis EXCEPT

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: Great Britain wanted to form an alliance with manufacturing in the North.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: nullification C: states’ rights B: popular sovereignty D: sectionalism What is the ability for the states to decide for themselves if they would be slave or free?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: popular sovereignty

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: John Brown and other abolitionists raided Harpers Ferry. C: the Georgia General Assembly voted for secession. B: Pro and anti-slavery supporters flooded Kansas to vote for or against slavery. D: the Dred Scott decision was announced. Bleeding Kansas was caused when

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: pro and anti-slavery supporters flooded Kansas to vote for or against slavery.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: John Breckenridge, Southern Democratic Party C: Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party B: Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democratic Party D: John Bell, Constitutional Union Party During the Election of 1860, which Presidential candidate received the SMALLEST number of votes in Georgia?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: March to the Sea C: Destruction of Atlanta B: Bleeding Georgia D: Battle of Chickamauga What was Sherman’s campaign through Georgia called that created a path of destruction 300 miles long and 60 miles wide in which he and his men destroyed everything of value to Georgia’s citizens?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. A: March to the Sea

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Georgia was the site of most of the military victories. C: Robert E. Lee once referred to Georgia by that term and the name remained. B: Georgia’s soldiers fought harder than those from other confederate states. D: Georgia had the best railroads and more industry than other Confederate states. Why was Georgia often referred to as the “Heart of Confederacy” during the Civil War?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: Georgia had the best railroads and more industry than other Confederate states.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: Jefferson Davis C: Abraham Lincoln B: Alexander Stephens D: Ulysses S. Grant Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. A: Jefferson Davis

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: He spared the hometown of his West Point roommate. C: He protected over $28 million worth of cotton stored in Savannah. B: He gave Savannah to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift. D: He had divided the upper and lower Confederacy and so did not need to destroy the city. After the destruction caused by his march through Georgia, why did General Sherman refrain from burning Savannah ?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: He protected over $28 million worth of cotton stored in Savannah.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: to maintain its navy for attacks on northern seaports. C: to ship and sell its cotton in Europe in exchange for supplies and arms. B: to maintain the only major transportation resources in the South. D: to protect the privateers who were making millions in profits from the war. The South needed to keep its ports open during the war

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: to ship and sell its cotton in Europe in exchange for supplies and arms.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: The South had a superior way. C: Great Britain found other ways to trade with the South. B: Blockade runners slipped through the blockade. D: The Union did not have enough ships to enforce the blockade. What contributed to the lack of success of the Union blockade?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: Blockade runners slipped through the blockade.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: The North had a standing or established army or navy. C: The North had many more factories that could produce war materials. B: The North had heavy railroad tracks and more miles of track. D: The North had home-field advantage because most battles were fought in their states. Which statement does not describe an advantage of the Union forces during the Civil War?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. D: The North had home-field advantage because most battles were fought in their states.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: economy based on agriculture C: owned most of the slaves B: more men of combat age D: more rural areas All of the following were characteristics of the South EXCEPT

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. B: More men of combat age