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| How did the South react to Abraham Lincoln’s election as President in 1860? | Seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. |
| Why did the admission of California alarm Southerners? | It upset the balance between free and slave states in the Senate. |
| President who was impeached in 1868/ but not convicted by the U.S. Senate. | Andrew Johnson |
| The Ku Klux Klan was created because | some whites who were angry about losing power resorted to violence. |
| Which amendment guaranteed equal protection of the laws? | the Fourteenth Amendment |
| The Monitor and Merrimac/ which changed the nature of naval warfare/ were | ironclads |
| What term describes people who farm land they do not own? | sharecropper |
| 1st African-American U.S. Senator. | Hiram Revels |
| Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation followed what union victory? | Antietam |
| Which of the following was a point made in the Dred Scott decision? | Slaves were property/ even if they lived in a free territory. |
| Which of these limited the rights of African-Americans? | All the answers are true. |
| Senator beaten in Congress over slavery debate. | Charles Sumner |
| The deal that resulted in the election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 by the House of Representatives also involved | ending Reconstruction |
| John Brown and his sons clashed with supporters of slavery in what plains state? | Kansas |
| In the Lincoln-Douglas debates/ Republican Abraham Lincoln/ | insisted that the territories be kept free from slavery. |
| Guarantees the right of citizens to vote without regard to race/ color or previous conditions of servitude | 15th amendment |
| What was Radical Reconstruction? | Congressional Republicans’ plan to rebuild the south. |
| Why did Lincoln support the Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction? | He wanted to make it easy and quick for southern states to rejoin the Union. |
| Who assinated President Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
| At the end of the Civil War/ where did Lee surrender to Grant? | Appomattox |
| Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was most likely demanded by southern members of Congress? | the Fugitive Slave Act |
| Why did John Brown mount his raid on the U.S. Fort at Harper’s Ferry? | to raise an army of African Americans and lead them in a revolt |
| Writer of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin/ which provided abolitionists with a highly effective propaganda tool to spread their message in the North. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| During the Civil War/ the federal government taxed what for the first time? | income |
| Which of the following actions/ supported by President Lincoln/ most affected the rights of Union citizens during the Civil War? | suspending habeas corpus |
| Which of the following played a major role in the segregation of African Americans and the loss of their full civil rights? | the concept of “separate/ but equal” |
| Southerners attacked Fort Sumter because they believed that | war was inevitable/ so it was better to start it on their own terms. |
| Grant’s victory that divided the south along the Mississippi River. | Vicksburg |
| Civil War nurse who helped set up the American Red Cross. | Clara Barton |
| The term casualties refers to | dead and wounded |
| After the first battle at Bull Run | the North and the South realized that the war would be a long/ hard struggle. |
| What was the name given by southerners to northerners who went south to start businesses during Reconstruction? | carpetbaggers |
| Site where Lee invaded the North and Lincoln delivered a famous message about the purpose of the war. | Gettysburg |
| What Supreme Court case established the doctrine of “separate but equal?” | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Who was the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court whose written opinion for the court denied Dred Scott had any legal rights? | Roger B. Taney |
| Which amendment bans slavery/ except as a punishment for convicted criminals. | the Thirteenth Amendment |
| Which of the following statements is true about the effect of the Civil War? | Inflation rose in both the North and the South. |
| Who was the Confederate hero at the First Battle of Bull Run? | Stonewall Jackson |
| Stephen Dougles’ popular sovereignty compromise included in the Kansas Nebraska Act left the decision over slavery up to | the people of the territories |
| What was the first duty of the Freedmen’s Bureau? | to provide emergency relief to people displaced by the Civil War |
