The Civil War Chapter 7

John Brown's raid at Harper’s Ferry, VA in 1859 successfully led a slave rebellion after he seized the federal arsenal.

North Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.

The court ruled that Dred Scott was property protected by the Constitution, therefore Dredd Scott would not be freed.

Which statement best explains President Abraham Lincoln’s justification for the Civil War?

The Fugitive Slave Law allowed Southerners to travel North to retrieve runaways without intervention by the legal system

The capture of New Orleans was a huge blow to the Union.

Baton Rouge prevented the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River.

The most famous African American regiment was the Massachusetts 54th Infantry.

Which invention led to a drastic increase in the number of slaves?

To suspend a person's right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial

The war affected the northern economy by

What was the name of Robert E. Lee's horse that he used throughout most of the Civil War?

At the beginning of the war, why did the South think England would back the Confederacy?

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

Harriet Beecher-Stowe's novel written about slavery that contributed to the anti-slavery movement

Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States in 1860.

African American soldiers in the Civil War faced more difficulties than white soldiers in that they were

Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

The Wilmot Proviso proposed that slavery should be banned from

In the 1850s, why was the territory of Kansas known as “Bleeding Kansas”?

Which general captured the city of Atlanta and then led his army on a campaign known as the “March to the Sea”?

Bloody Kansas represented

Lincoln denied any interest in emancipation before 1862 mainly because he

The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union is known as

Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus to deal with dissent in the Union states.

The Dred Scott decision guaranteed that slavery would not be allowed in future states.

Antietam is known as the deadliest one-day battle in American military history.

The major aim of the Free-Soil Party was to

The four border (slave) states that did not secede from the Union were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

One effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was that it gave a moral purpose to the war.

Senators and their wives came to witness the 1st Battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861.

Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act included raids to free slaves in border states.

Which of the following was an attempt to maintain an equal balance between free states and slave states?

"Bloody Kansas" was a result of interference from outsiders from both the North and the South on the slavery issue.

What was a result of passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Mathew Brady was the photographer most well known for his documentation of the Civil War.

What is a common misconception about the Emancipation Proclamation?

Victory at Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Ohio River.

The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves held in the states in rebellion.

Contraband camps were refugee camps where slaves in Union-occupied Confederate territory fled to escape their owners.

Which event took place less than a week after Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?

Enactment in 1862 of a militia law that required states to draft people for military service.

The Confederate economy was primarily split between agriculture and manufacturing.

The increased accuracy and range of weapons was one of the causes of the horrific nature of Civil War battles.

The four border states that allowed slavery that did not secede from the Union were

Why did the Confederacy believe foreign powers would help them fight the Union?

The Thirteenth Amendment

Congress created the collection of income taxes in order to help offset the expense of the Civil War.

Slaves in defeated areas were sometimes considered contraband. What does that mean?

Before the Emancipation Proclamation, all Union forces weakened slavery by disrupting civilian life.

Who did Abraham Lincoln offer the command of all Union forces before the war began?

The New York City draft riots were primarily a protest against

Population, railroads and industry were advantages that the North exercised over the South during the Civil War.

The three long term causes for the Civil War are

Where did Lee finally surrender to Grant?

Which event caused the immediate secession of South Carolina from the Union in December 1860?

The King Cotton strategy failed because

The Battle of Shiloh damaged Grant’s rising reputation.

Popular sovereignty would allow who to decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?

Which of the following best explains the dependence of the Southern economy on slavery?

Confederate victories in the North helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864.

West Virginia was admitted to the Union as the 35th State on June 20, 1863.

Total war targets not only the army but also the civilian population.

Robert E Lee's Virginia estate, Arlington, was confiscated by the Union and made into a cemetery.

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes & safe houses used by runaway slaves to escape into free states

African Americans who were captured by Union forces were often treated as contraband.

The infamous prison in the South was called

Scott's strategy nicknamed the Anaconda Plan entailed encircling the Confederacy along the rivers and coastlines.

The attack on Fort Sumter marked the official beginning of the American Civil War.