UNIT 01 - Civil War

In which speech did President Lincoln state that the Civil War was necessary to preserve the Union and that America was one nation, not a collection of individual states?

• a. The Emancipation Proclamation
• b. The Dedication of Bull Run
• c. The Gettysburg Address
• d. His Third Inaugural Address

Using your knowledge from the unit, identify which city below was MOST LIKELY to have a newspaper that published the below article in response to President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

• a. Boston, Massachusetts
• b. San Francisco, California
• c. Burlington, Vermont
• d. Richmond, Virginia

The below excerpt describes a future for the freed Black people of the South that is MOST similar to--

• a. Scottish immigrant neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
• b. French-Canadian fur trading outposts in Vermont.
• c. Reservations created for indigenous peoples in the West.
• d. Chinese immigrant mining camps in California.

In the below excerpt, President Lincoln was talking about--

• a. The free Black movement to return to Africa and establish their own independent country of Liberia.
• b. The fact that the Civil War was a fight between neighbors, brothers, sisters, and fellow Americans.
• c. The need to convert all freed Blacks to Christianity, because that was God's plan.
• d. None of the above

What was the result of the below resolution from the United States Congress?

• a. Irish and Scottish indentured servants in the North were freed.
• b. Enslaved people of African heritage were freed in the District of Columbia.
• c. Workers in factories in the District of Columbia were paid more.
• d. None of the above.

Clara Barton was most closely associated with--

• a. Healthcare for soldiers during the Civil War.
• b. Abolitionism before, during, and after the Civil War.
• c. Literature, as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• d. Women's rights, such as those discussed at the Seneca Falls Convention.

Which of the following individuals believed that secession was not permitted by the U.S. Constitution?

• a. Jefferson Davis
• b. Abraham Lincoln
• c. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• d. Stonewall Jackson

Abraham Lincoln once joked that the following person started the Civil War because of his/her writing.

• a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• b. Ulysses S. Grant
• c. Clara Barton
• d. Frederick Douglass

Which of the following events happened FIRST?

• a. The Gettysburg Address
• b. The Emancipation Proclamation
• c. The Battle of Antietam
• d. The secession of South Carolina from the Union.

Which of the following is TRUE about tariffs in the 19th century?

• a. Southerners opposed tariffs because they believed tariffs would scare off foreign buyers of their goods and make the imported goods they needed more expensive.
• b. Northerners opposed tariffs because the economy of the North was dependent on other parts of the country for most of its agricultural needs.
• c. People in both the North and the South approved of tariffs because foreign imports were already too expensive.
• d. None of the above statements are true.