1. UNIT 8: CIVIL WAR
TEST REVIEW

2. WARM UP – MAY 16 TEST REVIEW
1. How did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to please both the North and South?
2. What was established by the Emancipation Proclamation?
3. What primary issue did the Know Nothing party believe in?
4. Which act was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
5. What were the 3 parts of the Anaconda Plan? Was the Union successful in fulfilling their goals?

3. The Whig Party’s influence had declined by the 1850’s primarily because:
(A) The party had failed to spread its influence into the western territories
(B) The founders of the party including Henry Clay and Daniel Webster died and the party was split on the issue of slavery
(C) The Party’s abolitionist beliefs led the party to lose influence in the South
(D) The Party’s support of immigration made it unpopular in the Midwest

4. “Bleeding Kansas” and the caning of MA Senator Charles Sumner by SC Senator Preston Brooks represents:
(A) The growing tensions between the North and the South
(B) Consequences of the Compromise of 1850
(C) The decreasing likelihood that the southern states would secede from the Union
(D) That the Republican Party’s influence was increasing

5. In the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to:
(A) Allow northern states the power to ban slavery
(B) Deny southern states the legal right to own
slaves
(C) Allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery
(D) Overturn previous decisions on slavery

6. During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they:
(A) feared the admission of new slave states
(B) wanted to limit the power of the national
government
(C) were concerned with the legal rights of Native
American Indians
(D) supported an isolationist foreign policy

7. As the Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln stated that his primary goal was to:
(A) end slavery
(B) set new national boundaries
(C) increase congressional powers
(D) preserve the Union

8. How was Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 Presidential Election a turning point in American History?
(A) Lincoln won the majority of electoral votes but not a majority of the popular vote
(B) A coalition of Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Democrats ran a strong third-party candidate
(C) The Crittenden Compromise attempted to resolve tensions aroused by the election
(D) Lincoln’s victory prompted Southern secession and the Civil War that followed

9. Zachary Taylor’s solution for determining whether Kansas and Nebraska would be free states or slave states was to:
(A) Allow the people in the territories to vote on the issue themselves
(B) Use the Missouri Compromise line to determine whether each territory would be free or slave
(C) Allow Nebraska to enter as a free state and Kansas as a slave state
(D) Allow Kansas to enter as a slave state and Kansas as a free state

10. Before the Civil War, slavery expanded in the South rather than in the North because:
(A) The Constitution contained a clause that outlawed the importation of slaves into Northern states
(B) Congress passed a law forbidding slavery in the North
(C) Northern states passed affirmative action legislation
(D) Geographic conditions in the South encouraged the development of large plantations

11. One way that “Bleeding Kansas,” the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events:
(a) ended conflict over slavery in the territories
(b) eased tensions between the North and the
South
(c) contributed to the formation of the Whig
Party
(d) made sectional compromise more difficult

12. Which of the following made ending slavery an aim of the North during the Civil War?
(A) 13th amendment
(B) Anaconda Plan
(C) Emancipation Proclamation
(D) Wade-Davis Bill

13. Nativism and the belief that immigrants should be treated as secondary citizens was the primary belief of which political party?
(A) Whig
(B) Republican
(C) Democrat
(D) Know Nothing

14. Which of the following was NOT a ruling issued by Judge Taney in the case of Scott v. Sanford?
(A) The Missouri Compromise was an unconstitutional law
(B) Slaves and African descendants are not citizens
(C) Dred Scott was from Missouri and therefore was an African descendant and a slave
(D) A slave who is taken to a territory prohibitive of slavery cannot be again reduced to slavery

15. One important question that needed to be addressed following the passage of the 13th amendment was:
(A) How much power the federal government would share with the state governments?
(B) How to handle the effects of PTSD experienced by returning soldiers?
(C) What would be the future for millions of newly freed people?
(D) How to rebuild territories destroyed by total war?

16. The Civil War battle that resulted in 26,000 deaths in a single day – more than the combined casual totals of War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War was:
(A) The Battle of Bull Run
(B) The Battle of Antietam
(C) The Battle of Gettysburg
(D) The Battle of Vicksburg

17. First Battle of the Civil War Union Army’s plan to defeat the South
Supreme Court case that determined that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
First Battle of the Civil War
Union Army’s plan to defeat the South
Turning point of the Civil War
Attacking the enemy’s society (civilians and home front) and not just military forces

18. Admitted California as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave Act
Guarantees the right to be charged with a crime and the right to a trial; suspended by Lincoln during the Civil War