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- What was the purpose of the 1862 Homestead Act?A. It granted every former slave a homestead with forty acres and a mule.B. It offered Western land to settlers who would live and labor on it.C. It instituted America's first public education system.D. It ended speculation on western land purchases.
- What did Lincoln consider the biggest obstacle to the acceptance of emancipation in the Union?A. The difficulty of finding a suitable place to send the freed slavesB. Public concern about the constitutionality of emancipationC. Public reaction to seizing southern propertyD. White fears that freed slaves would disrupt northern society
- Who went on to found the Red Cross after serving as a nurse in Union battlefield units during the CivilWar?A. Dorothea DixB. Clement VallandighamC. Clara BartonD. Justin Morrill
- The Carroll who was present at the Constitutional Convention
- What was General William T. Sherman's strategy for defeating the Confederates in Georgia in 1864?A. He planned to recruit former plantation slaves for the Union army.B. He planned to have his men confiscate Georgians' cotton and sell it to England.C. He intended to infect Confederate camps with typhoid fever.D. He orchestrated a scorched-earth military campaign aimed at destroying the will of the southernpeople.
- Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation asA. a military necessity.B. a personal moral statement.C. a response to the lobbying of abolitionists.D. a way to appease the entire northern population.
- What was the capital city of the Confederacy in 1863?A. Montgomery, AlabamaB. Atlanta, GeorgiaC. Charleston, South CarolinaD. Richmond, Virginia
- Initially the Confederacy sought King Cotton diplomacy, a strategy based on the belief thatA. European nations' need for cotton would lead them to support the Confederacy.B. raising the price of cotton would force the North to negotiate a peaceful settlement.C. European nations would loan the South more money if it reduced the price of cotton.D. growing less cotton and freeing more slaves would convince England to recognize the Confederacy.
- Which statement describes African Americans' experiences in the Union army?A. The Union placed blacks in segregated units.B. A few African Americans became commissioned officers.C. Black soldiers earned the same pay as white soldiers.D. Harsh treatment kept most blacks from enlisting in the military.
- What was the result of the Battle of Vicksburg in July 1863?A. A Confederate victory forced Union commanders to question whether they could win the war.B. Weeks of battle and horrendous casualties produced only a stalemate.C. The Union army's victory opened up a large portion of the Mississippi River.D. The Confederates forced the Union army out of the deep South.
- What prompted an Irish-led riot that took the lives of at least 105 people in New York City in thesummer of 1863?A. The prejudices immigrant workers facedB. The newly enacted draft lawC. Inadequate living conditions and high rentsD. Dangerous working conditions
- Why did the "twenty-Negro law" enrage many white southerners during the Civil War?A. It exempted from military service one white man on every plantation with twenty or more slaves.B. It paid slaveholders scarce government funds for every twenty slaves they owned or supervised.C. It forced every slaveholder with at least forty slaves to turn over twenty of them for use by thegovernment.D. It targeted for military service every slaveholder with at least twenty slaves.
- How did President Lincoln attempt to stifle opposition to the Civil War?A. He instituted martial law in all northern cities.B. He disfranchised political opponents.C. He imprisoned of a vast number of northern Democrats.D. He suppressed free speech.
- Why did King Cotton diplomacy fail?A. The Union destroyed too many southern plantations.B. European nations turned to Egypt and India for cotton.C. The Union refused to trade with Great Britain.D. Southern slaves refused to work during the war.
- This treaty ended the French and Indian War with England gaining all of Canada, and all lands east of the Mississippi River.
- After the French and Indian War, this accord was set in place to end confrontations with the Ohio Valley Indians by forbidding any further settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
- This confrontation in the Carolina back-country over taxation, representation, and property seizures was an early sign of American sectionalism
- This was considered to be the "low point" of the Revolution for Colonial forces and possibly Washington's greatest hour.
- In 1760, he became the new monarch of England, forced William Pitt from office, and began to increase the alienation of the American colonies eventually leading to the Revolution.
- What obstacle stood in the way of Washington's attack on the Hessian troops at Trenton?