Civil War Review

1. In the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo that ended the war with Mexico, the United States

2. The idea of popular sovereignty was based on the assumption that

3. Which of the following was a feature of the Compromise of 1850?

4. All of the following are accurate statements about the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision of 1857

5. In 1860, the Republican Party attracted large numbers of voters from all of the following constituencies EXCEPT

6. By 1850, free African-Americans generally

7. In 1950, Henry Clay and other senators negotiated a compromise which balanced sectional views on

all of the following EXCEPT

8. Which statement accurately reflects the status of manufacturing by 1860?

9. Between 1800 and 1860, the region with the fastest growing urban population was

10. One of the major reason for the persistent mass violence in the 1830’s and 1840’s was

11. In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville described the growth of an aristocracy

in the Untied States based on

12. Between 1820 and 1860, the largest number of immigrants to the United States migrated from

13. Which of the following does not apply to the Confederacy?

14. Which person led an abolitionist raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry?

15. Which of the following contributed least to the causes of the Civil War?

16. Which of the following does not apply to the Union?

17. The last state to secede from the Union was

18. Of the following, which was NOT a border state?

19. All of the following were true concerning the new weapon, called the rifle, EXCEPT

20. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had all of the following effects EXCEPT

21. All of the following statements about the Civil War are true except

22. Lincoln’s main concern in fighting the Civil War was

23. African-Americans were used in the armed forces in the Civil War

24. The battle on April 6-7, 1862 at Pittsburgh Landing near the Mississippi-Tennessee border

where Grant was nearly defeated on that first day and General Albert Sidney Johnston was killed is better known as

25. Which of these was not one of the major areas of battle during the Civil War

26. Which was not a problem faced by both Confederates and Federal troops at the start of the war?

27. The West Point graduate and Mexican War who was offered command of all Union forces when the

Civil War erupted was

28. Slavery in the United States was ended by

29. The battle on September 17, 1862, at Sharpsburg, Maryland, which proved to be the

worst single day of the war for both sides is better known as

30. Which of the following was not a true statement describing the South’s economy?

31. In order to win their independence, Southerners would have had to

32. Robert E. Lee’s best general, killed at Chancellorsville by his own men, was

33. The Union commander of a who lead the capture of New Orleans, who joined the navy at age

nine and fought in the War of 1812 was

34. The Union general most responsible for breaking the spirit of the civilian South was

35. The experience at Pittsburg Landing made US Grant realize that Northern victory in the Civil War

36. The fall of New Orleans to the Union was most significant because it

37. The key to control of the Mississippi River, captured by Grant on July 4, 1863, was

38. The financial needs of the United States during the Civil War led to

39. On July 4, 1863, the Confederacy suffered two great defeats when

40. What is most likely the reason that the states of the upper South waited until April 1861 to secede?

Identify:

Mathew Brady 15th Amendment John C. Freemont George McClellan

Thomas J. Jackson Clara Barton Alexander Stephens Andrew Johnson

Thaddeus Stephans William Sumner The Mass 54th Vicksburg