Homework Review #2 | Emancipation Proclamation

This guy attempted to start a slave revolt....it didn't work.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell 
• John Breckenridge
• John Brown

Which candidate in the election of 1860 supported the idea of popular sovereignty?

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• James K. Polk

Events & Acts: Confederate troops fired on the fort in Charleston, SC, marking the beginning of the Civil War

• Election of 1860

• Fort Sumter

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• John Brown's Raid

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation immediately set all the slaves in the United States free?

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed all slaves in the Confederate states that were not currently under Union control.

• Laid the groundwork for a future constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery.

• Allowed for African American men to fight in the Union army.

• All of the above

Lincoln gained the confidence to order the emancipation of the slaves due to the victory of the Union army in this battle:

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Fredericksburg

• Battle of Shiloh

The Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for what constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery in the United States?

• The thirteenth amendment

• The fifth amendment

• The first amendment

• The twenty-first amendment

Which amendment said anyone born in United States is a citizen in 1868? (a)  

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

What was Lincoln's main goal during the Civil War?

• To abolish slavery in the US

• To stop slavery from spreading west

• To preserve the unity of the country

• To get Europe to support the north in the war

Why did Lincoln exclude the Border States from the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Slavery was already illegal in the Border States

• Lincoln didn't have any power the in the Border States

• He didn't want to give them a reason to side with the South