Unit 6 History

Question 1

Who was the first Republican nominee for president?

Answer 1

John C. Fremont

Question 2

Which event led to the Whig Party being dissolved?

Answer 2

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 3

The Whig Party was divided by members’ attitudes on which issue?

Answer 3

slavery

Question 4

Although they came from different backgrounds, the one attitude that united the Republican Party was their ___________.

Answer 4

opposition to slavery

Question 5

Who was one of the founders of the Republican Party?

Answer 5

Horace Greeley

Question 6

The political party that won the presidential election of 1856 was the ____________.

Answer 6

Democratic Party

Question 7

The major goal of the Free Soil Party was to __________.

Answer 7

prevent the spread of slavery in new territories

Question 8

Who was the first Republican president?

Answer 8

Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

Who was the winner of the 1856 presidential election?

Answer 9

James Buchanan

Question 10

Which party dominated the election of 1854?

Answer 10

American (Know Nothings)

Question 11

Who was the leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War?

Answer 11

Robert E. Lee

Question 12

By 1860, what percentage of the nation’s manufacturing output came from northern states?

Answer 12

90%

Question 13

Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?

Answer 13

Abraham Lincoln

Question 14

By 1860, which state had the largest slave population?

Answer 14

Virginia

Question 15

Which crop was mainly grown in the South at the start of the Civil War?

Answer 15

cotton and tobacco

Question 16

At the start of the Civil War, the South had which type of economy?

Answer 16

agricultural

Question 17

Which leader of the Union Army would go on to become president of the United States?

Answer 17

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 18

Which of the following was not an advantage the North held over the South at the beginning of the Civil War?
a. enslaved labor
b. population
c. factories
d. resources

Answer 18

a. enslaved labor

Question 19

Who was president of the Confederate States of America?

Answer 19

Jefferson Davis

Question 20

Which was a major reason slavery did not flourish in the North?

Answer 20

There was little agriculture
and there were large numbers of immigrants to supply a labor force.

Question 21

Before the war started, Alabama Governor Andrew B. Moore had the state’s militia seize control of the two forts guarding Mobile Bay and the __________.

Answer 21

Mt. Vernon Federal Arsenal north of Mobile

Question 22

Where was the first capital of the Confederacy located?

Answer 22

Montgomery, Alabama

Question 23

What river did the Union use to help seize control of north Alabama?

Answer 23

Tennessee River

Question 24

Why did Confederates make fun of the Union soldiers in Streight’s Raid?

Answer 24

Many of the Union soldiers were mounted on mules.

Question 25

The Selma Ordnance and Naval Foundry was destroyed __________.

Answer 25

by Wilson’s Raid only a week before Robert E. Lee surrendere

Question 26

What town was chosen for an industrial complex to build weapons for the Confederacy?

Answer 26

Selma

Question 27

What Confederate officer solved the problem of ordnance for the Confederacy?

Answer 27

Josiah Gorgas

Question 28

What guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay? a. Fort Morgan b. Fort Gaines c. A line of torpedoes (mines) d. All of these guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay.

Answer 28

d. All of these guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay.

Question 29

What was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union? a. Mobile b. New Orleans c. Port St. Joe d. Charleston

Answer 29

a. Mobile

Question 30

What Confederate ship was a sloop of war that captured over 400 vessels during the war including 65 Union merchant ships and was so successful that it struck fear in the Union merchant fleet and naval fleet? The success of this ship boosted the morale of the Confederacy before it was sunk off the coast of France by the Union shipUSS Kearsarge in 1864. a. CSS Tennessee b. CSS Huntsville c. CSS Tuscaloosa d. CSS Alabama

Answer 30

d. CSS Alabama

Question 31

Union African-American troops were _________. a. issued the same uniforms, weapons, and rations as the white troops b. always paid the same as their white counterparts c. never involved in any battle action

Answer 31

a. issued the same uniforms, weapons, and rations as the white troops

Question 32

Some Union African-American troops from Alabama were massacred by General Forrest’s troops at which battle? a. The Battle of Mobile Bay b. The Battle of Selma c. The Battle at Fort Pillow

Answer 32

c. The Battle at Fort Pillow