Unit 5 Quiz

The Wilmot Proviso proposed that

• slavery should be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico

• California should be admitted as a free state

• the Missouri Compromise should be extended westward

• popular sovereignty should determine slavery in new territories

The Emancipation Proclamation

• freed all enslaved people in the U.S.

• abolished slavery in the border states

• freed enslaved people in Confederate-controlled areas

• immediately ended Reconstruction

The turning point of the Civil War was

• the First Battle of Bull Run

• the Battle of Gettysburg

• the Battle of Fort Sumter

• the Battle of New Orleans

The Radical Republicans in Congress sought to

• allow Southern states to quickly rejoin the Union

• punish the South and ensure rights for freedmen

• limit the role of the federal government in Reconstruction

• support President Andrew Johnson’s policies

The main purpose of the Homestead Act (1862) was to

• provide land to freed slaves

• encourage settlement in the West

• strengthen Native American land claims

• promote industrialization

What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• To free enslaved people in the border states

• To require escaped slaves to be returned to their owners

• To abolish slavery in Washington, D.C.

• To allow enslaved people to purchase their freedom

The 15th Amendment was significant because it

• abolished slavery

• granted African American men the right to vote

• provided citizenship to freedmen

• ended Reconstruction

Sharecropping was a system that

• allowed freedmen to own land

• ensured economic independence for former slaves

• kept many African Americans and poor whites in cycles of debt

• was supported by Radical Republicans

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) resulted in

• the U.S. acquiring California and the Southwest

• the expansion of slavery into Texas

• an end to the Missouri Compromise

• Mexico gaining control of Oregon

Which battle was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?

• Gettysburg

• Antietam

• Shiloh

• Vicksburg