Third Set Flashcards
What was the Supreme Court decision that declared the rights of citizens in the US belonged to white people only?
1. Dred Scott v Sanford
2. Prigg v Pennsylvania
3. Marbury v Madison
4. Luther v Borden
Dred Scott v Sanford
Who led the famous raid of Harpers Ferry, intended to spark a general slave uprising that would lead to the destruction of slavery in the US?
1. Frederick Douglass
2. Soujourner Truth
3. John Brown
4. Anthony Burns
John Brown
What was the site of the first battle of the Civil War?
a. Manassas
b. Fort Sumter
c. Vicksburg
d. Gettysburg
Fort Sumter
What were the “contraband camps”?
a. Union Army camps that repurposed captured Confederate arms
b. Camps where Confederate prisoners of war were kept during the war
c. Camps of escaped formerly enslaved people that were organized to help the Union war effort
d. Trading locations where Union and Confederate soldiers could trade illegal goods with each other
Camps of escaped formerly enslaved people that were oganized to help the Union war effort
What was the name of a law passed to draft men into the Union Army that sparked protests during the Civil War?
a. The Intolerable Act
b. The Enrollment Act
c. The Impressment Act
d. The Selective Service Act
The Enrollment Act
President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved people freed in what territory?
a. the territory of the seceded Confederate states
b. Areas under control of Union forces
c. the states of the union
d. areas declared to be then “in rebellion” against the United States
areas declared to be then “in rebellion” against the United States
Who led the “March to the Sea”?
a. George McClellan
b. Ulysses S. Grant
c. William Sherman
d. Robert E. Lee
William Sherman
What was the primary purpose of the 14th amendment to the constitution?
a. to declare slavery illegal in the United States
b. to declare US citizenship to include all people born within the territory of the United States
c. to secure voting rights for men who were formerly enslaved
d. to establish the right of the Federal government to collect income taxes
to declare US citizenship to include all people born within the terriotry of the United States
President Andrew Johnson advocated which of these positions?
a. passage of the civil rights act of 1866
b. ratification of the 14th amendment
c. federal assumption of the debts of confederate states
d. readmission of seceded states to the union provided they ratify the 13th amendment
readmission of seceded states to the union provided they ratify the 13th amendment
What was the name of the Federal agency established near the end of the Civil War to assist African Americans with a range of services?
a. Department of War
b. Freedmen’s Bureau
c. milistary district command
d. reconstruction committees
Freedmen’s Bureau
