Question 1

1.	What is an "abolitionist?"

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d. An individual who worked to end the institution of slavery.

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b. A supporter of Mexican land rights in Texas.

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c. A financial donor to the cause of women's rights in the 19th century.

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a. A person who fought for the rights of indigenous people.

Question 2

2.	What is popular sovereignty?

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b. The philosophy that the people have the right to determine for themselves the nature of their own government.

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a. The idea that the people have the right to elect their own sovereign in a traditional monarchy.

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c. Abraham Lincoln's term for abolitionism.

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d. The concept stating that if the South wanted to leave the Union, they should be allowed to leave, in peace.

Question 3

3.	To "secede" is to--

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a. Leave the United States.

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b. Succeed in business, specifically in the South.

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d. Raise tariffs on imported goods, specifically from Spain.

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c. Combine more than one plantation under one owner.

Question 4

4.	Who said and/or wrote the below statement?

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b. Abraham Lincoln, in The Emancipation Proclamation.

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a. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in The Declaration of Sentiments.

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d. None of the above.

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c. Frederick Douglas in his third debate.

Question 5

5.	Using the below map and your knowledge from the unit, "Scott's Great Snake" was the--?

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d. Union blockade of the South.

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b. route Robert E. Lee took with his army and navy to attack Virginia.

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a. route of the explorers who followed Lewis & Clark's old route to Arkansas.

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c. borders of the Confederate States of America in 1859.

Question 6

6.	Which of the following was NOT true of Jefferson Davis? --

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d. All of the above statements are true.

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a. He was President of the Confederacy.

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c. He served as a senator from Mississippi.

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b. He was a plantation owner.

Question 7

8.	Clara Barton was most closely associated with--

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a. Healthcare for soldiers during the Civil War.

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b. Abolitionism before, during, and after the Civil War.

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d. Women's rights, such as those discussed at the Seneca Falls Convention.

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c. Literature, as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Question 8

9.	Which of the following individuals believed that secession was not permitted by the U.S. Constitution?

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b. Abraham Lincoln

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d. Stonewall Jackson

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c. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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a. Jefferson Davis

Question 9

10.	Abraham Lincoln once joked that the following person started the Civil War because of his/her writing the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

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a. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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c. Clara Barton

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d. Frederick Douglass

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b. Ulysses S. Grant

Question 10

11.	Which of the following events happened FIRST?

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d. The secession of South Carolina from the Union.

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c. The Battle of Antietam

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a. The Gettysburg Address

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b. The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 11

12.	Which of the following is TRUE about tariffs in the 19th century?

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a. Southerners opposed tariffs because they believed tariffs would scare off foreign buyers of their goods and make the imported goods they needed more expensive.

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c. People in both the North and the South approved of tariffs because foreign imports were already too expensive.

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b. Northerners opposed tariffs because the economy of the North was dependent on other parts of the country for most of its agricultural needs.

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d. None of the above statements are true.

Question 12

13.	Which of the following is TRUE about the differences between the North and the South prior to the Civil War?

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d. All of the above statements are true.

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b. The people of the South were in need of more infrastructure, such as roads, canals, and railways.

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a. The North was more urban and industrialized.

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c. Southerners were strong supports of states' rights.

Question 13

14.	Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the North during the Civil War?

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a. Most of the battles were fought in Northern territory.

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d. It had a larger population and therefore more men available for military service.

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c. It had more railroads and were therefore able to get troops to the front quickly.

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b. It had a huge advantage in weapons and supplies.

Question 14

16.	Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the Emancipation Proclamation?

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e. All of the above statements are true.

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d. It made foreign countries less likely to send aid to the South.

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b. With it, President Lincoln "freed" all the slaves in the rebelling Southern states.

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a. It had little immediate effect on the lives of enslaved peoples.

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c. It gave the Union a moral purpose for fighting for victory.

Question 15

17.	The Battle of Gettysburg was--

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b. won by the North.

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a. fought in Southern territory.

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d. the first battle of the Civil War.

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c. Caused by General Robert E. Lee invading Massachusetts in 1863.

Question 16

18.	In which speech did President Lincoln state that the Civil War was necessary to preserve the Union and that America was one nation, not a collection of individual states?

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c. The Gettysburg Address

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b. The Dedication of Bull Run

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d. His Third Inaugural Address

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a. The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 17

19.	What was the importance of the Appomattox Courthouse?

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a. It is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.

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d. It was the location of the first-ever military field hospital in the Union, started by Clara Barton.

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b. It is where General Lee accepted the position of general.

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c. It was the Union headquarters during the Battle of Gettysburg.

Question 18

20.	What was the result of the below resolution from the United States Congress?

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b. Enslaved people of African heritage were freed in the District of Columbia.

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a. Irish and Scottish indentured servants in the North were freed.

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d. None of the above.

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c. Workers in factories in the District of Columbia were paid more.

Question 19

21.	The below excerpt describes a future for the freed Black people of the South that is MOST similar to--

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c. Reservations created for indigenous peoples in the West.

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d. Chinese immigrant mining camps in California.

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b. French-Canadian fur trading outposts in Vermont.

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a. Scottish immigrant neighborhoods in Philadelphia.

Question 20

22.	Using your knowledge from the unit, identify which city below was MOST LIKELY to have a newspaper that published the below article in response to President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

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d. Richmond, Virginia

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b. San Francisco, California

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a. Boston, Massachusetts

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c. Burlington, Vermont

Question 21

23.	In the below excerpt, President Lincoln was talking about--

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b. The fact that the Civil War was a fight between neighbors, brothers, sisters, and fellow Americans.

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d. None of the above

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a. The free Black movement to return to Africa and establish their own independent country of Liberia.

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c. The need to convert all freed Blacks to Christianity, because that was God's plan.

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