Chapter 15, 16, and 19 Test review

Question 1

When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal?

Answer 1

To restore the union

Question 2

In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?

Answer 2

Military leadership

Question 3

Which of the following abolished slavery in the North?

Answer 3

The thirteenth amendment

Question 4

Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

Answer 4

It made the South give up the idea of invading the North.

Question 5

Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 5

“The world will note , nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

Question 6

What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter?

Answer 6

He did not want to anger the Republicans and slave states still in the union.

Question 7

Why was David Farragut’s victory in April 1862 so important?

Answer 7

It advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.

Question 8

What were the important advantages of ironclad ships?

Answer 8

They could travel much faster than other ships.

Question 9

What was the stated aim of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 9

To free slaves in Union States

Question 10

What was Clara Barton’s role in the Civil War?

Answer 10

Nurse on the Battlefield

Question 11

Clara Barton worked as a ___ in the Civil War.

Answer 11

Nurse on the Battlefield

Question 12

What was the Union’s three-part plan to conquer the South?

Answer 12

All the following except Drafting freed slaves to fight for the Union.

Question 13

What was the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 13

It gave a moral purpose to the war

Question 14

What was the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 14

All the following except the battle that split the Confederacy in two.

Question 15

Grant and Sherman’s strategy of total war targeted the Confederate army and what?

Answer 15

Civilian population of the South

Question 16

Lincoln suspended ___ to deal with dissent in the Union states.

Answer 16

The writ of habeas corpus

Question 17

While serving in the Union army, what did African Americans face?

Answer 17

All the following except excessively high income taxes

Question 18

During the war, what contributed to the food shortage in the South?

Answer 18

the weather, and the southern farmers fighting on their fields

Question 19

Because it was one of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River, Grant focused on capturing ___.

Answer 19

Vicksburg

Question 20

___ helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864.

Answer 20

Winning battles in the South with Grant and Sherman

Question 21

The congressional leader of the Radical Republicans was who?

Answer 21

Thaddeus Steven

Question 22

The Fourteenth Amendment was passed to provide a constitutional basis for what act?

Answer 22

Civil Rights Act

Question 23

Hiram Revels was the first African-American what?

Answer 23

Senator

Question 24

During Reconstruction, the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to who?

Answer 24

Sharecroppers

Question 25

During Reconstruction, what increased in the South?

Answer 25

All the following increased the South except Per Capita income

Question 26

President Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish who?

Answer 26

Confederate Leaders

Question 27

How could Thaddeus Stevens be described?

Answer 27

All the following except moderate

Question 28

The Compromise of 1877 signaled an end to?

Answer 28

Reconstruction

Question 29

A state government that is run without federal intervention illustrates the idea of?

Answer 29

Home Rule

Question 30

No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement, according to?

Answer 30

15th Ammendment

Question 31

Tammany Hall was the name of?

Answer 31

Powerful New York political organization

Question 32

An example of patronage would be?

Answer 32

Appointing a friend to a political position

Question 33

The Pendleton Civil Service Act required what ?

Answer 33

It required all federal job seekers to take exams.

Question 34

What is the main purpose of patronage?

Answer 34

To reward one’s supporters

Question 35

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?

Answer 35

Ruthford B. Hayes