Civil War Test Review (Chapters 13-15)

Question 1

Jefferson Davis

Answer 1

President of the Confederate States of America

Question 2

Frederick Douglas

Answer 2

Runaway slave who started an abolitionist newspaper

Question 3

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 3

Republican president elected in 1860

Question 4

Dred Scott

Answer 4

Former slave whose case went to the Supreme Court

Question 5

Harriet Beecher

Answer 5

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 6

Robert E. Lee

Answer 6

Confederate general of the Army of Nothern Virginia for most of the war

Question 6

Harriet Tubman

Answer 6

Runaway slave who helped others escape to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad

Question 7

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 7

Commander of Union forces in the West and later the whole Union Army

Question 8

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 8

The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

Clara Barton

Answer 9

The nurse who cared for wounded soldiers and who started the American Red Cross

Question 9

Underground Railroad

Answer 9

A network of people who aided runaway slaves

Question 10

Andrew Johnson

Answer 10

Vice president under Abraham Lincoln, became president after assassination of Lincoln

Question 11

Antebellum

Answer 11

“Before the war” in america used mainly with the Civil War

Question 12

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Answer 12

Anyone convicted of helping a fugitive slave was subject to a fine of $1000 or imprisonment for 6 months or both

Question 13

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 13

A famous book written about the unjust system of slavery

Question 14

Secession

Answer 14

The act of leaving the Union

Question 15

Confederate States of America

Answer 15

The states that seceded from the Union

Question 16

First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 16

First battle of the Civil War, a Confederate victory

Question 17

Appomattox Court House

Answer 17

The site of Lee’s surrender to Grant

Question 18

The Merrimack and the Monitor

Answer 18

Iron-clad warships that engaged in naval battles

Question 19

Gettysburg

Answer 19

Three-day battle in Pennsylvania between Lee’s forces and the Union army

Question 20

Gettysburg adress

Answer 20

A speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of a
cemetery

Question 21

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 21

Issued by President Lincoln, it declared all slaves in
confederate-controlled territories would be free.

Question 22

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 22

Amendment that said states could not deny the right to vote
based on race.

Question 22

Reconstruction

Answer 22

The period from the end of the Civil War to 1877

Question 22

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 22

Amendment that abolished slavery

Question 23

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 23

Amendment that granted citizenship to blacks

Question 24

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 24

Act that divided the South into military districts until states wrote new constitutions approved by Congress

Question 25

Freedmen

Answer 25

Former slaves

Question 25

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 25

Congress’s plan to require 50 percent of a state’s white males to take an oath of allegiance to the Union before being re-admitted.

Question 26

Black Codes

Answer 26

: Very restricPve state laws that placed African Americans in an inferior position to white people; a condition similar to slavery.

Question 27

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 27

A secret organization formed by former Confederate soldiers and determined to keep blacks under white control.

Question 28

Freedmen's Bureau

Answer 28

An agency established to assist former slaves

Question 29

Accomplishments of Freedmen's Bureau

Answer 29

Assisted blacks in negoPaPng fair work contracts Established special courts to seTle disagreements between workers and employers Intervened when courts issued unjust judgments Provided buildings for schools Paid teachers Helped establish colleges to train African American teachers

Question 30

Which states suceded from the Union?

Answer 30

South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee

Question 30

Which slave states remained in the Union and were called border states?

Answer 30

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware

Question 31

Why did South Carolina believe it had the right to secede? Why did Lincoln believe it did not have the right to secede?

Answer 31

South Carolina’s argument for secession was that the states were sovereign and had voluntarily joined the Union, and that when the government failed to protect the rights of the states, they could withdraw from the Union. Lincoln’s argument against secession was that the Union was permanent, the Constitution had no provision for ending it, and theConstitution gave the national government sovereignty over the states.

Question 32

What were the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 32

It transformed the war from a war to save the Union into a war of liberation Slaves began leaving their masters Britain would not recognize the South as a nation It paved the way for the eventual end of slavery Black regiments began to form in the North

Question 33

What were the effects of the Civil War on the nation?

Answer 33

620,000 soldiers were killed Many soldiers were wounded or lost limbs Much personal property and industrial capacity was destroyed (especially in the South) Roads and farmlands were ruined Deep bitterness, distrust and hatred existed between the North and the South for many years.