8th Grade Second Semester Exam

The long paper read by the officer was most likely

• The Star Spangled Banner

• The Gettysburg Adress

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• Secession of South Carolina

What are the events/issues related to the Civil War Era

• Rebuilt the South Scalawags and Carpetbaggers, Freedmen's Bureau
• Confederate Army seized DC; Congress passed three new amendments
• Conflict over states' rights and taxation, Secession of the Southern States, Destruction of the South
• Grant was elected President

What are the characteristics of the Reconstruction era?

• Rebuilt the South Scalawags and Carpetbaggers, Freedmen's Bureau

• Confederate Army seized DC; Congress passed three new amendments

• Conflict over states' rights and taxation, Secession of the Southern States, Destruction of the South

• Grant was elected President

Why was the battle of Vicksburg important?

• It enabled the Confederate Army to ask the French for help.

• It allowed the Confederate Army to seize Washington D.C.

• It gave the Union control of the Mississippi River

• It broke the Union blockade in the Gulf of Mexico.

The artwork shows Generals Grant and Lee ending which war?

• American Revollution

• Civil War

• War of 1812

• Mexican-American War

Economic differences between the North and South, Issue of Slavery, Abolitionist Movement, Election of Lincoln, States' Rights

• The Nullification Crisis

• Individual Rights in the Civil War

• Key events of the Civil War

• Causes of the Civil War

Based on the information in these excerpts, how do Davis' views differ from Lincoln's?

• Davis considered enslaved people to have the right to property, while Lincoln did not.

• Davis considered property rights to be more important than individual liberties, while Lincoln did not.

• Davis considered all states to have equal rights, while Lincoln did not consider the rights of states a dividing issue between the North and South.

• Davis considered states to have the right to freedom from oppressive government, while Lincoln believed individuals should be free from government oppression.

Which congressional action led to the Southern viewpoint expressed in this cartoon?

• passage of the Homestead Act

• ending the Freedmen's Bureau

• Strengthening the fugitive Slave Laws

• military occupation of former Confederate States

The Black Codes were enacted to

• grant citizenship to former slaves

• grant voting rights to former slaves

• force former slaves to move north

• limit the effects of Reconstruction

Why did the Battle of Vicksburg, and the loss of control of the Mississippi, help the Union defeat the Confederacy?

• Losing the river removed the physical barrier between slave and free states

• Losing control of the river divided the Confederacy in two and cut off its supplies

• The river had provided the Confederacy with a power source for factories and mills

• The river provided direct access to the Union's base of military operataions