Unit 4 - Civil War - Test Review

Southern military leader who kept a strong line of men fighting earning his nickname.

Who won the Battle of Atlanta and burnt a path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah?

Turning point in the war.

In what state is Ft. Sumter located?

Lincoln in 1858....

What did the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 maintain?

Which of the following men was an advocate for nullification and secession?

Which of these events best exemplified Manifest Destiny?

During Reconstruction Congress passed federal legislation designed to protect rights of blacks.

Which group should decide the issue of slavery according to popular sovereignty?

This was the first state in which Lincoln would suspend habeas corpus.

What was the end result of the Civil War?

What event led South Carolina to secede the Union?

What state is shown in red?

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 granted all freed families 40 acres of land and a mule.

Who would NOT have been targeted by the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?

Gettysburg Address is a famous speech given by who?

Control of the Mississippi River.

Commander of the Confederate Army.

What did James K Polk do almost immediately after becoming President?

Which of the following did Lincoln NOT do?

Which of the following is NOT true about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Which statement best supports the idea that slavery was the primary cause of the Civil War?

Wilmot Proviso proposed that none of the land gained in the war with Mexico could allow slavery

What word best describes Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

What is true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States" are now citizens of the United States.

Made slavery illegal

Bleeding Kansas showed a fundamental failure of what?

This event increased tensions between the North and the South prior to the Civil War.

Which NFL team is currently 5-1 and sitting in 1st place in the NFC North?

What caused the Freedmen's Bureau to die out in 1872?

Laws designed to restrict freedmen's freedom.

What era is being depicted in this image?

Can't deny someone the right to vote based on color, race, or previous servitude.

Which state was created during the Civil War?

What is the capital of the Confederate States of America?

What river is shown on the map?

First shots of the war

According to Radical Republicans who should be in charge of Reconstruction?

What did the US gain as a result of the Mexican-American War?

What is the capital of the state shown in red?

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

This ended Reconstruction.

Sherman marched across Georgia to this city on the coast.

The Ku Klux Klan was started by members of this political party.

Why did Congress create the Freedmen's Bureau?

President of the Confederacy

What major battle was fought for control of the Mississippi River?

What was NOT a reason military districts were resented in the South?

Gettysburg is in what state?

Which of the following was an effect of Nat Turner's Rebellion?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act restricted the expansion of slavery.

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 would the South most favor?

Bloodiest single day of fighting.