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Grade 11 Civil War
Abraham Lincoln was a member of this political party?
  1. Jacksonian
  2. Whig
  3. Democratic
  4. Republican
Grade 11 Civil War
What was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?
  1. Battle of Chancellorsville
  2. Battle of Fredericksburg
  3. Battle of Antietam
  4. Battle of Gettysburg
Grade 11 Civil War
What technological advance contributed most to the Civil War's high casualty rate?
  1. the ironclad ship
  2. the minie ball
  3. the land mine
  4. the camera
Grade 11 Civil War
The Crittenden Proposal
  1. Forbade slavery west of the Mississippi River
  2. Would have granted the southern states their independence if they abolish slavery
  3. Would havelowered the protective tariff in return for abolishing the Fugitive Slave Act
  4. Would have guaranteed slaveholders the right to own slaves south of the 36'30 line all the way across the nation
Grade 11 Civil War
What was John Brown's aim at Harpers Ferry?
  1. To keep pro-slavery settlers out of Kansas.
  2. To help fugitive slaves reach freedom in the North.
  3. To challenge Abraham Lincoln in a presidential debate.
  4. To seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising.
Grade 11 Civil War
Which regiment was the first regiment of African American soldiers in the Union army?
  1. 32nd Ohio
  2. 6th Pennsylvania
  3. The Buffalo Soldiers
  4. 54th Massachusetts
Grade 11 Civil War
What was the most famous massacre of African American soldiers during the Civil War?
  1. Harper's Ferry
  2. Nat Turner Rebellion
  3. Fort Pillow
  4. Wagner Battery
Grade 11 Civil War
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments
  1. had little effect on the lives of southerners
  2. forbid black southerners from serving as elected officials
  3. helped white southerners celebrate black southerners' new rights
  4. gave black southerners more political and economic freedom
Grade 11 Civil War
What was the main reason that there were more slaves in the South than in the North?
  1. Southern colonists were less willing to do labor
  2. The North had outlawed slavery
  3. Slaves couldn't handle the cold in the North
  4. The Plantation economy required a lot of slaves to do labor
Grade 11 Civil War
The Fifteenth Amendment gave                   the right to vote.
  1. Republicans
  2. Sharecroppers
  3. African Americans
Grade 11 Civil War
How did southern blacks lose some rights?
  1. New amendments later limited black southerners' legal status.
  2. Few black southerners took advantage of their newfound freedoms.
  3. State legislation, segregation, and violence limited the freedoms of blacks.
  4. Black southerners did not lose any rights during these years.
Grade 11 Civil War
Which of the following statements describes the Fugitive Slave Act?
  1. It required all citizens to help capture escaped slaves.
  2. It freed any slaves that escaped to the North.
  3. it was included in the Wilmot Proviso
Grade 11 Civil War
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
  1. Stephen Douglas
  2. Jefferson Davis
  3. George Jefferson
  4. Abraham Lincoln
Grade 11 Civil War
What key difference between the North and the South ultimately led to the Civil War?
  1. the Southern climate was warm, while the Northern climate was cooler
  2. the South was less densely populated than the North
  3. the South was agricultural, while the North was more industrialized
  4. the Southern economy depended on slavery, while the Northern economy did not
Grade 11 Civil War
Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850?
  1. violence broke out in Kansas
  2. the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
  3. California was admitted as a free state
  4. Slavery was ended in Washington D.C.
Grade 11 Civil War
The                      said that African Americans had "equal protection of the laws".
  1. Thirteenth Amendment
  2. Fourteenth Amendment
  3. Fifteenth Amendment
Grade 11 Civil War
Who lead three hundred slaves to freedom and had a $10,000 bounty on their head?
  1. Sojourner Truth
  2. Harriet Tubman
  3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  4. George Ponte
Grade 11 Civil War
What is the importance of the Thirteenth Amendment?
  1. Due Process
  2. The right of African American men to vote
  3. Abolition of Slavery
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