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What was the chief goal of the Compromise of 1850?
(Points: 3)
to resolve issues about Texas's statehood
to preserve the Union
to improve the national economy
to keep a balance between slave states and free states
2) Which group contains provisions of the legislation to resolve slavery issues?
Group A.
admission of California as free state
Elimination of the slave trade in washington, D.C.
Passage of the fugitive Slave act
Group B
Admission of New Mexico as a slave state and Utah as a free state
Elimination of slavery in the nations capital
Passage of the Texas reparations Act
3. What idea best explains the different views of the North and the South about slavery?
(Points: 3)
The South wanted the North to help with the economic impact of eliminating slavery.
The North believed that slavery was wrong and the South did not.
The South wanted a slave labor system and the North wanted a free labor system.
The North believed in equality for blacks and the South felt blacks were inferior.
4. What political party was formed by uniting several northern antislavery coalitions? (Points: 3)
Know-Nothing
Republican
Whig
Democrat
5. What was a finding of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case?
(Points: 3)
Slavery was illegal.
Slaves were citizens.
Slavery was a choice each state could make.
Slaves were property.
6. Who did not believe slavery should be abolished?
(Points: 3)
John Brown
Stephen Douglas
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
7. What was one result of Abraham Lincoln's debates with Stephen Douglas?
(Points: 3)
Lincoln was elected senator from Illinois.
They reached agreement on slavery.
Douglas won the presidential primary.
They brought Lincoln into the national spotlight.
8. What was not part of Abraham Lincoln's platform in the 1860 election? (Points: 3)
placing tariffs on foreign goods
allowing territories to choose slavery
building a transcontinental railroad
passing a homestead act for western settlement
9. What did Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee have in common during the Civil War?
(Points: 3)
They were all Union states.
They were all Confederate states.
They were all border states.
They were all organized territories.
10. What did Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, and Oregon all have in common during the Civil War?
(Points: 3)
They were all Confederate states.
They were all Union states.
They were all border states.
They were all organized territories.
11. Which was not true about the border states?
(Points: 3)
They were slave states.
Each shared its northern border with a Union state and its southern border with a Confederate state.
There were fewer than six border states.
The border states had little strategic value for the Union.
12. Which were strengths of the South at the beginning of the Civil War? (Points: 3)
slaves, money system, and transportation
military colleges, cotton trade, and agriculture
banking, ironclad vessels, and army
draft-age population, food surplus, and horses
13. Why did the North seem stronger than the South at the beginning of the Civil War?
(Points: 3)
Its government was well-established.
It had more military colleges.
It could produce cotton for trade.
It was able to trade textiles for firearms.
14. Which group identifies Confederate military leaders?
Group a
George McClellan
John pope
Winfeild Scott
Group B
Stonewall Jackson
George Pickett
Albert Johnston
Group C
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
15. What was the result of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861?
(Points: 3)
The Union troops won.
The Civil War began.
The battle ended without a real winner.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
16. What battle led President Lincoln to conclude that the Civil War would take longer and require more troops than he had expected? (Points: 3)
Fort Henry
First Bull Run
Hampton Roads
Shiloh
17. What did the Emancipation Proclamation announce?
(Points: 3)
the abolition of all slavery
freedom for slaves in the Confederate states
freedom for all slaves
the right to vote for freed slaves
18. Which is true of the Battle of Gettysburg?
(Points: 3)
It resulted in a Confederate victory thanks to Pickett's charge.
It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War a
(Points: 3)
to resolve issues about Texas's statehood
to preserve the Union
to improve the national economy
to keep a balance between slave states and free states
2) Which group contains provisions of the legislation to resolve slavery issues?
Group A.
admission of California as free state
Elimination of the slave trade in washington, D.C.
Passage of the fugitive Slave act
Group B
Admission of New Mexico as a slave state and Utah as a free state
Elimination of slavery in the nations capital
Passage of the Texas reparations Act
3. What idea best explains the different views of the North and the South about slavery?
(Points: 3)
The South wanted the North to help with the economic impact of eliminating slavery.
The North believed that slavery was wrong and the South did not.
The South wanted a slave labor system and the North wanted a free labor system.
The North believed in equality for blacks and the South felt blacks were inferior.
4. What political party was formed by uniting several northern antislavery coalitions? (Points: 3)
Know-Nothing
Republican
Whig
Democrat
5. What was a finding of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case?
(Points: 3)
Slavery was illegal.
Slaves were citizens.
Slavery was a choice each state could make.
Slaves were property.
6. Who did not believe slavery should be abolished?
(Points: 3)
John Brown
Stephen Douglas
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
7. What was one result of Abraham Lincoln's debates with Stephen Douglas?
(Points: 3)
Lincoln was elected senator from Illinois.
They reached agreement on slavery.
Douglas won the presidential primary.
They brought Lincoln into the national spotlight.
8. What was not part of Abraham Lincoln's platform in the 1860 election? (Points: 3)
placing tariffs on foreign goods
allowing territories to choose slavery
building a transcontinental railroad
passing a homestead act for western settlement
9. What did Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee have in common during the Civil War?
(Points: 3)
They were all Union states.
They were all Confederate states.
They were all border states.
They were all organized territories.
10. What did Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, and Oregon all have in common during the Civil War?
(Points: 3)
They were all Confederate states.
They were all Union states.
They were all border states.
They were all organized territories.
11. Which was not true about the border states?
(Points: 3)
They were slave states.
Each shared its northern border with a Union state and its southern border with a Confederate state.
There were fewer than six border states.
The border states had little strategic value for the Union.
12. Which were strengths of the South at the beginning of the Civil War? (Points: 3)
slaves, money system, and transportation
military colleges, cotton trade, and agriculture
banking, ironclad vessels, and army
draft-age population, food surplus, and horses
13. Why did the North seem stronger than the South at the beginning of the Civil War?
(Points: 3)
Its government was well-established.
It had more military colleges.
It could produce cotton for trade.
It was able to trade textiles for firearms.
14. Which group identifies Confederate military leaders?
Group a
George McClellan
John pope
Winfeild Scott
Group B
Stonewall Jackson
George Pickett
Albert Johnston
Group C
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
15. What was the result of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861?
(Points: 3)
The Union troops won.
The Civil War began.
The battle ended without a real winner.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
16. What battle led President Lincoln to conclude that the Civil War would take longer and require more troops than he had expected? (Points: 3)
Fort Henry
First Bull Run
Hampton Roads
Shiloh
17. What did the Emancipation Proclamation announce?
(Points: 3)
the abolition of all slavery
freedom for slaves in the Confederate states
freedom for all slaves
the right to vote for freed slaves
18. Which is true of the Battle of Gettysburg?
(Points: 3)
It resulted in a Confederate victory thanks to Pickett's charge.
It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War a