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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
Grade 11 Civil War
South Carolina seceded from the United States because
  1. most voters believed that Stephan Douglas had won the election.
  2. state leaders thought that Lincoln would abolish slavery.
  3. several other southern states had seceded.
Grade 11 Civil War
What did the abolition movement promote?
  1. instituting slavery in new U.S. territories
  2. prohibiting the drinking of alcohol
  3. removing Native Americans from eastern states
  4. ending the institution of slavery
Grade 11 Civil War
For which actions is Nat Turner Famous?
  1. leading a violent slave revolt
  2. fighting in the American Revolution
  3. publishing an antislavery newspaper
  4. promoting a nonviolent end to slavery
Grade 11 Civil War
Time period before the Civil War
  1. Journeymen
  2. Civil Disobedience
  3. Gag Rule
  4. Antebellum
Grade 11 Civil War
Proposal to end slavery in all new territory won from Mexico.
  1. Adams-Onis Treaty
  2. Wilmot Proviso
  3. Emancipation Proclamation
  4. Treaty of Paris
Grade 11 Civil War
Most of the Southern Whites were                .
  1. Republicans
  2. Democrats
  3. Independent
Grade 11 Civil War
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
  1. Lee Harvey Oswald
  2. John Wilkes Booth
  3. John Hinckley Jr.
Grade 11 Civil War
During the 1700s, the major reason that there were more Africans enslaved in the South than the North was that
  1. slavery had been outlawed in the North
  2. enslaved persons could not tolerate the climate of the North
  3. Southern colonists were less wiling to do physical labor
  4. The Southern economy required a larger number of field laborers
Grade 11 Civil War
The Wilmot Proviso
  1. pressed for the expansion of slavery.
  2. helped spur the rise of the antislavery political parties.
  3. lessened tensions over slavery between the North and the South
Grade 11 Civil War
Which statement best summarizes the beliefs of Booker T. Washington?
  1. The most immediate means for African Americans to achieve equality was to expand their opportunities for vocational education.
  2. The way to dissolve the barriers of segregation and bring about an end to Jim Crow Laws was by active, violent resistance.
  3. Social equality for African Americans would be easier to achieve than legal rights.
Grade 11 Civil War
The freeing of slaves with no payment to the slave owners
  1. emancipation
  2. strike
  3. abolition
  4. gag rule
Grade 11 Civil War
W.E.B.Du Bois believed that African Americans should attempt to gain equality in the United States by
  1. entering vocational training schools in separate schools
  2. demanding full and immediate participation in American Society
  3. setting up a separate nation within the United States
Grade 11 Civil War
Which party supported the doctrine of popular sovereignty?
  1. Democrat
  2. Republican
  3. northern Democratic
  4. Constitutional Union
Grade 11 Civil War
Which statement about the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois is most accurate?
  1. They differed as to the best way that African Americans could effectively achieve equality.
  2. Both demanded programs that would provide for immediate social equality.
  3. Both believed that vocational training would provide the most important kind of education for African Americans.
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