Chapter 10/11 Flashcards
T or F: The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin depicted African Americans as real people imprisoned in dreadful circumstances
True
T or F: Southerners believed the Constitution gave them the right to retrieve an enslaved person who fled across state lines
True
T or F: Lee’s attack at cold Harbor resulted in a major defeat for his troops
False
T or F: After the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee’s forces remained on the defensive for the rest of the war
True
T or F: The Fugitive Slave Act required ordinary citizens to help capture runaways
True
T or F: Dred Scott was a Missouri slaveholder who had taken an enslaved man to live in a free territory before returning with him to Missouri
False
T or F: The battle near Chancellorsville, Virginia, resulted in a key victory for the Union
False
T or F: The North experienced an economic boom because of the Civil War
True
T or F: Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election without Southern support
True
T or F: At the start of the civil war, the north had more trained military leaders than did the south because most of the country’s military colleges were in the north
False
T or F: With few financial resources and little industry, the south suffered more inflation and critical shortages during the civil war than did the north
True
T or F: The Emancipation Proclamation decreed freedom for enslaved persons in all states where they were held
False
T or F: As the Civil War began, President Lincoln’s goal was to preserve the Union, even if it meant allowing slavery to continue
True
Conscience Whigs were Northern Whigs who …
Opposed slavery
The prison in the south where 13,000 captured union soldiers died was
Andersonville
___ was the idea that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if the wanted to permit slavery or not
Popular sovereignty
Lee surrendered to Grant at …
Appomattox courthouse
____ Whigs were Norther Whigs who had ties to Northern cloth manufacturers and voted with Southern Whigs to nominate Zachary Taylor for president
Cotton
Before burning ____ , General Sherman ordered all citizens to leave
Atlanta
Because of his role in promoting the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and solving the nullification crisis in 1833, _____ was nicknamed “The Great Comprimiser”
Henry Clay
The famous quote, “[a nation] conceived in liberty, and dedicated tothe proposition that all men are created equal” was part of the _____
Gettysburg Address
Many Historians consider Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by ______, to be one of the causes of the Civil war
Harriet Beecher Stowe
_______ Charge at Gettysburg resulted in the slaughter of confederate troops
Pickett’s
The _____ party was an anti-Catholic and nativist party
American
Grant took Vickesburg by putting the city under _____, cuttin off it’s good supplies and bombarding the city until into defenders gave up
Siege
The politician who said “A house divided against itself cannot stand” was ____
Abraham Lincoln
Viewing any opposition to the war as treason, Republicans referred to the Peace Democrats ______
Copperheads
The dissolution of the Union began with the secession of the state of ….
South Carolina
The Legal Tender Act allowed the government to issue paper money, which came to be known as …. Because of it’s color
Greenbacks
The Confederacy chose _____ as it’s president
Jefferson Davis
Wanted to uphold the constitution and the union
Constitutional unionists
Supported popular sovereignty
Norther democrats
supported the Dred Scott decision
Souther democrats
Nominated John bell
Constitutional unionists
Nominated Abraham Lincoln
Republicans
