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
