CBA 4: Test Corrections

Which era is represented by the photograph?

• The Early Republic

• The Age of Jackson

• Westward Expansion

• Civil War

How did President Abraham Lincoln reach to the idea expressed by Jefferson David that the Confederacy was created to establish a just, tranquil, peaceful country.

• Lincoln stated that the argument by the South to leave the Union was unjustified.

• Lincoln called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make a ruling on the legality of secession.

• Lincoln believed the reasoning to leave the Union was protected by the Constitution.

• Lincoln prepared to amend the Constitution in order to appease the Southern States.

Determine which geographic and/or economic advantage was one for the Confederacy.

• Knowledge of terrain for most battles

• Ability to produce all the food it needed

• Network of railways to move goods and men

• Larger population of men to fight in war

• Large reserves of money from the Gold Rush

Which statement describes how the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increase sectionalism?

• It allowed slavery to expand into the territories.

• It gave tax cuts to manufacturers who relocated to the territories.

• It allowed slaves who escaped to the territories to purchase their freedom.

• It granted homesteads to immigrants who settled in the territories.

How did Freedmen's Bureaus help Freedmen?

• By providing food, housing, education, and healthcare

• By helping freedmen gain freedom

• By helping freedmen escape the south

Which of the following encouraged African Americans to fight for the Union, which strengthened the Union Army?

• President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The 13th Amendment

Which statement explains how the work of Dorothea Dix benefited U.S. society?

• Mental-health facilities were opened to treat patients.

• Doctors were required to get federal licenses to practice medicine.

• States passed laws giving harsher sentences to criminals.

• The government distributed land to the poor people.

Which statement BEST describes the importance of the Battle of Vicksburg?

Select TWO answers.

• The Union gained control of the Mississippi River

• It was the opening engagement of the Civil War in the South

• It was described as the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War

• The Confederacy captured military supplies from the North

• The Confederacy was divided into two

What made the battles at Antietam and Gettysburg different from the other battles illustrated on the map?

• They were victories for the Confederacy

• They were battles fought in Union territory

• They were attempts to keep Virginia in the Union

• They were battles defending the Confederacy capital

Which of the following factor MOST contributed to the higher enslaved population in the south?

• The South had a society that relied on wage labor

• The South had an economy that relied on cotton

• The South had a varied of natural resources

• The South had an abundance of large cities