History Unit 11 Test

Question 1

True or false: The Kansas-Nebraska Act negated the Missouri Compromise

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False: Sherman’s march to the sea was unsuccessful for the Union.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True or false: Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or false: The basic strategy of the Confederacy was to conduct a defensive war.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or False: When the Civil War began, many teenagers stayed home and did not serve in the military.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

This battle was an important Union victory in Tennessee

Answer 6

Shiloh

Question 7

This battle was the first major land battle of the war, and a Confederate victory

Answer 7

Bull Run

Question 8

This battle is considered the Turning Point of the war

Answer 8

Gettysburg

Question 9

This is where Fighting first broke out in the US Civil War

Answer 9

Ft. Sumter

Question 10

This battle marked the single bloodiest day in American History

Answer 10

Antietam

Question 11

He was a Violent Abolitionist

Answer 11

John Brown

Question 12

Who won the Presidential election of 1856, what was his party?

Answer 12

John Buchanan - Democrat

Question 13

The leadership of these two generals was a key factor in the Confederates’ military success in the East?

Answer 13

Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson

Question 14

General Sherman waged total war on the south, what is total war?

Answer 14

A war where an army targets an enemy’s land and people

Question 15

American Transcendentalist who wrote “Civil Disobedience”

Answer 15

Henry David Thoreau

Question 16

This piece of legislation was ruled Unconstitutional following Scott vs Sanford

Answer 16

The Missouri Compromise

Question 17

Why did the Union want to control the Mississippi River and its tributaries?

Answer 17

Union ships could prevent supplies from reaching the eastern Confederacy.

Question 18

What was the result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

Answer 18

Anger and non-compliance from the North

Question 19

What was the main topic of the Lincoln Douglas Debates?

Answer 19

Slavery

Question 20

Why was General McClellan relieved of his duties as commander?

Answer 20

His inaction before and during the battle of Antietam

Question 21

In the span of 30 days this General lost 50,000 of his troops and was called the “butcher” by his critics.

Answer 21

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 22

John Brown was captured after a failed raid of this southern city…

Answer 22

Harper’s Ferry, VA

Question 23

The South was mostly pleased by the Dred Scott decision because the Supreme Court ruled that…

Answer 23

restricting slavery was unconstitutional.

Question 24

What Supreme Court’s ruling outraged opponents of slavery?

Answer 24

Scott vs. Sandford

Question 25

FINAL JEOPARDY: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was effective in accomplishing two major goals, what were they?

Answer 25

1. Making the Civil War about ending slavery in the United States. 2. Kept Europe (England and France) out of the war.