Question 1
1. The events that marked "Bleeding Kansas":
a. were violent but considered unimportant to the nation.
b. showed how violent sectional feelings could become.
c. were quickly quelled and the territory admitted as a slave state.
d. demonstrated that attacks on immigrants would not be prosecuted.
Question 2
1. Which of the following was the primary reason the South was unable to unify as a country or financially support the war effort?
a. Davis did not have the political experience Lincoln did and thus was unable to unite the people.
b. Their nation was built on a shared belief in states' rights which thus inhibited their ability to work as a single nation.
c. The lack of transportation routes inhibited the dispersal of newspapers and other forms of information.
d. The North imposed a naval blockade.
Question 3
1. The Emancipation Proclamation accomplished which of the following?
a. It freed slaves only in the Confederate controlled areas.
b. It effectively ended slavery - freeing slaves in both the North and South.
c. It demonstrated that Lincoln would not use the end of slavery as a war aim.
d. It freed slaves only in the border states and those former Confederate states the Union now occupied.
Question 4
1. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Fugitive Slave Act ?
a. It allowed captured fugitives a hearing in which they were allowed to testify.
b. It dramatically increased the power of slave owners to capture escaped slaves.
c. Slave owners now had the full support of the federal government.
d. It imposed penalties on citizens who protected or assisted fugitives.
Question 5
1. The border states included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Delaware.
b. Maryland.
c. Kansas.
d. Missouri.
Question 6
1. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills which included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. California was admitted as a free state.
b. the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.
c. a stronger fugitive slave law was to be enforced nation-wide.
d. slavery was excluded from all parts of the Mexican Cession.
Question 7
1. The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a call to action for which reform movement?
a. Women's suffrage
b. Asylum reform
c. Abolition
d. Prohibition
Question 8
1. The primary Union objective concerning foreign relations during the war was:
a. promoting cotton production in India and Africa thereby undermining the South's economy.
b. promoting a slave revolt in Brazil to incite fears of such revolts within the South.
c. urging other nations to recognize the Confederate States as a separate country.
d. keeping Great Britain and France from recognizing or assisting the Confederate states.
Question 9
1. While some lesser skirmishes continued, the end of the Civil War is most effectively dated April 9, 1865 when Robert E. Lee and his troops surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at:
a. Gettysburg.
b. Cold Harbor.
c. Guilford Court House.
d. Appomattox Court House.
Question 10
1. In the 1850s, nativism was rampant throughout the country. Nativism can best be described as a fear of and contempt for:
a. immigrants.
b. Native Americans.
c. African Americans.
d. the indigent.
2. Choose three major battles of the Civil War. Identify each and thoroughly explain their impact on the war.
3. Compare and contrast the political attitudes toward slavery of Stephen A. Douglas with those of Abraham Lincoln. What were the results of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.