Chapter 15, 16, and 19 Test review Flashcards
When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal?
To restore the union
In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
Military leadership
Which of the following abolished slavery in the North?
The thirteenth amendment
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?
It made the South give up the idea of invading the North.
Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address?
“The world will note , nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter?
He did not want to anger the Republicans and slave states still in the union.
Why was David Farragut’s victory in April 1862 so important?
It advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.
What were the important advantages of ironclad ships?
They could travel much faster than other ships.
What was the stated aim of the Emancipation Proclamation?
To free slaves in Union States
What was Clara Barton’s role in the Civil War?
Nurse on the Battlefield
Clara Barton worked as a ___ in the Civil War.
Nurse on the Battlefield
What was the Union’s three-part plan to conquer the South?
All the following except Drafting freed slaves to fight for the Union.
What was the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It gave a moral purpose to the war
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
All the following except the battle that split the Confederacy in two.
Grant and Sherman’s strategy of total war targeted the Confederate army and what?
Civilian population of the South
Lincoln suspended ___ to deal with dissent in the Union states.
The writ of habeas corpus
While serving in the Union army, what did African Americans face?
All the following except excessively high income taxes
During the war, what contributed to the food shortage in the South?
the weather, and the southern farmers fighting on their fields
Because it was one of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River, Grant focused on capturing ___.
Vicksburg
___ helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864.
Winning battles in the South with Grant and Sherman
The congressional leader of the Radical Republicans was who?
Thaddeus Steven
The Fourteenth Amendment was passed to provide a constitutional basis for what act?
Civil Rights Act
Hiram Revels was the first African-American what?
Senator
During Reconstruction, the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to who?
Sharecroppers
During Reconstruction, what increased in the South?
All the following increased the South except Per Capita income
President Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish who?
Confederate Leaders
How could Thaddeus Stevens be described?
All the following except moderate
The Compromise of 1877 signaled an end to?
Reconstruction
A state government that is run without federal intervention illustrates the idea of?
Home Rule
No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement, according to?
15th Ammendment
Tammany Hall was the name of?
Powerful New York political organization
An example of patronage would be?
Appointing a friend to a political position
The Pendleton Civil Service Act required what ?
It required all federal job seekers to take exams.
What is the main purpose of patronage?
To reward one’s supporters
Who used the power of the presidency to clean up the New York Customs House but was unable to get support from Congress for civil service reform?
Ruthford B. Hayes
