Unit 6 History Flashcards
Who was the first Republican nominee for president?
John C. Fremont
Which event led to the Whig Party being dissolved?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Whig Party was divided by members’ attitudes on which issue?
slavery
Although they came from different backgrounds, the one attitude that united the Republican Party was their ___________.
opposition to slavery
Who was one of the founders of the Republican Party?
Horace Greeley
The political party that won the presidential election of 1856 was the ____________.
Democratic Party
The major goal of the Free Soil Party was to __________.
prevent the spread of slavery in new territories
Who was the first Republican president?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the winner of the 1856 presidential election?
James Buchanan
Which party dominated the election of 1854?
American (Know Nothings)
Who was the leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
By 1860, what percentage of the nation’s manufacturing output came from northern states?
90%
Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
By 1860, which state had the largest slave population?
Virginia
Which crop was mainly grown in the South at the start of the Civil War?
cotton and tobacco
At the start of the Civil War, the South had which type of economy?
agricultural
Which leader of the Union Army would go on to become president of the United States?
Ulysses S. Grant
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
a. enslaved labor
Who was president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Which was a major reason slavery did not flourish in the North?
There was little agriculture
and there were large numbers of immigrants to supply a labor force.
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 __________.
Mt. Vernon Federal Arsenal north of Mobile
Where was the first capital of the Confederacy located?
Montgomery, Alabama
What river did the Union use to help seize control of north Alabama?
Tennessee River
Why did Confederates make fun of the Union soldiers in Streight’s Raid?
Many of the Union soldiers were mounted on mules.
The Selma Ordnance and Naval Foundry was destroyed __________.
by Wilson’s Raid only a week before Robert E. Lee surrendere
What town was chosen for an industrial complex to build weapons for the Confederacy?
Selma
What Confederate officer solved the problem of ordnance for the Confederacy?
Josiah Gorgas
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.
d. All of these guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay.
What was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union?
a. Mobile
b. New Orleans
c. Port St. Joe
d. Charleston
a. Mobile
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
d. CSS Alabama
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
a. issued the same uniforms, weapons, and rations as the white troops
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
c. The Battle at Fort Pillow
