Chapter 14.2

Question 1

Which of the following is not true of Abraham Lincolns slavery policy during the first two years of the war?

Answer 1

He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery immediately

Question 2

Lincoln’s issuance of emancipation proclamation:

Answer 2

Followed the narrow union victory in the battle of Antietam

Question 3

The emancipation proclamation of January 1 1863:

Answer 3

Did not apply to the border of slave states that had not seceded

Question 4

The 54th Massachusetts volunteer regiment is best known as:

Answer 4

A regiment of free blacks who charged fort Wagner South Carolina

Question 5

Which union general in Missouri decreed freedom to that states slavery in 1861 a year before Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation?

Answer 5

John Fremont

Question 6

During the early days of the war the u.s congress adopted a resolution proposed by senator John crittenden of Kentucky that:

Answer 6

Affirmed that the union had no intention of interfering with slavery

Question 7

Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:

Answer 7

Feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the union

Question 8

The last nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery was:

Answer 8

Brazil

Question 9

During the civil war the term “contraband camps” referred to:

Answer 9

Camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered union lines

Question 10

When did great Britian abolish slavery in its empire

Answer 10

1830