© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A: destined to spread over the total continent. C: destined to become a world power. B: a “chosen people” and should

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A: destined to spread over the total continent.

C: destined to become a world power.

B: a “chosen people” and should multiply.

D: to be a religious nation.

The US Concept of “Manifest Destiny” reflected the belief that the

United States was





A: It allows slavery in Maine but did not allow slavery in Missouri.

C: It maintained a balance of power between slave and free states.

B: It required that slaves captured in free states be returned to slave states.

D: It said that Missouri could have slavery.

Which definition best explains the “Missouri Compromise”?



C: It maintained a balance of power between slave and free states.


A: The Supreme Court ruled against abolitionists saying slaves were not citizens.

C: The Supreme Court upheld the legal rights of the southern states and their institution of slavery.

B: The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not stop slavery in territories.

D: The Supreme Court ruled that slave owners had to be reimbursed for slaves who escaped on the underground railroad.

Which statement does not explain how the Dred Scott decision pushed

the nation closer to war?



D: The Supreme Court ruled that slave owners had to be reimbursed for slaves who escaped on the underground railroad.


A: California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state with no slavery.

C: Popular Sovereignty was established, allowing states to vote on whether or not to have slavery.

B: All slavery was eliminated in the District of Columbia.

D: Texas was allowed to annex New Mexico, extending slavery into that territory.

According to the terms of the Compromise of 1850,



A: California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state with no slavery.


A: The slave revolt

C: The underground railroad

B: The slave code

D: Fugitive Slave Law

Which was an organized escape plan for southern slaves fleeing their owners?



C: The Underground Railroad


A: Georgia

C: Alabama

B: Texas

D: Virginia

Which southern state was not among the original seven that formed the

Confederate States of America in 1861?



D: Virginia


A: The conflict between the North and the South over industrial development

C: The conflict between North and South over tariffs

B: The conflict between slavery and the illegality of slavery

D: The conflict between states’ rights and Union rights

Which conflict did Georgians face after Lincoln’s election?



D: The conflict between states’ rights and Union rights


A: California joined the Union as a free state.

C: Texas did not annex New Mexico as a slave territory.

B: Slave trading ended in the District of Columbia.

D: Congress passed a law allowing fugitive slaves to be returned to their owners.

Which result of the Compromise of 1850 did not benefit the North?



D: Congress passed a law allowing fugitive slaves to be returned to their owners.


A: Mary Boykin Chestnut

C: Clara Barton

B: Phoebe Pember

D: Mary Todd Lincoln

Which woman was a nurse during the Civil War and went on to establish the

American Red Cross?



C: Clara Barton


A: industry-based economy.

C: agriculture-based economy.

B: mixed economy.

D: slavery economy.

Once slavery was legalized in Georgia in 1751, it grew dramatically because of Georgia’s?



C: agriculture-based economy.


A: Georgia’s Secession Document

C: Georgia Platform

B: Gettysburg Address

D: Emancipation Proclamation

Which document said that all slaves in the states in rebellion would be free?



B: Emancipation Proclamation


A: Gettysburg

C: Andersonville

B: Antietam

D: Chickamauga

Which battle was important because it temporarily kept the Union army out of

Georgia?



D: Chickamauga


Which Civil War battle location was the “turning point” toward a

Union victory?

B: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

A: Antietam, Maryland

C: Gettysburg, Maryland

D: Chickamauga, Georgia



B: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania


A: It was a railroad center.

C: It was located halfway between two state capitals.

B: It was a major recruiting center for the South.

D: It had a number of factories that produced war supplies.

Why was Chickamauga important to the North and South?


A: destined to spread over the total continent.A: It was a railroad center.


A: Antietam

C: Shiloh

B: Gettysburg

D: Vicksburg

Where did the bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War take place?



A: Antietam


A: Sectionalism

C: Slavery

B: Representation in the U. S. Congress

D: States’ Rights

Which was not an underlying cause of the Civil War?



B: Representation in the

U. S. Congress


A: invading each state’s capital

C: blockade of Southern ports.

B: capturing southern generals.

D: foraging civilian supplies.

Which Union war strategy prevented the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return

for weapons and other supplies?



C: blockade of Southern ports


A: the Anaconda Plan

C: King Cotton Diplomacy

B: the blockade of Southern ports

D: foraging civilian supplies

Which strategy was NOT part of the North’s plan for winning the war?



C: King Cotton Diplomacy


A: capital of the Confederacy.

C: industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.

B: most populated city in the Confederacy.

D: home of the largest number of slaves in the Confederacy

Atlanta’s military importance to the Confederacy and thus a target in the Atlanta

Campaign by the Union is that it was the



C: industrial and transportation center of the

Confederacy.


A: Clara Barton

C: Harriet Tubman

B: William Lloyd Garrison

D: Frederick Douglass

All of the following were abolitionists EXCEPT



A: Clara Barton


A: Ulysses S. Grant

C: Robert E. Lee

B: Stonewall Jackson

D: William T. Sherman

What Union General led the northern Army on its March to the Sea and saw to it that much of Georgia’s capital resources were destroyed?



D: William T. Sherman


A: Alcatraz

C: Belle Isle

B: Andersonville

D: Fulton

Where was the notorious Confederate prison in Georgia?



B: Andersonville


A: Henry Wirz

C: John Hood

B: George Murphy

D: John C. Calhoun

Who was the commander of the Confederate prison at Andersonville?



A: Henry Wirz


A: states’ rights

C: the Compromise of 1850

B: popular sovereignty

D: slavery throughout the US

The “Georgia Platform” was a statement supporting?



C: the Compromise of 1850


A: It made Missouri a free state.

C: It permitted slavery north of Missouri’s southern boundary.

B: It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

D: It changed the requirements necessary for a territory to become a state.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act change the Missouri Compromise?



C: It permitted slavery north of Missouri’s southern boundary.


A: require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to obtain jobs

C: require slaves that had runaway to go back to their owners

B: prevent slaves from testifying against whites in courts

D: prevent slaves from having group gatherings

The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act which the Northern Congressmen agreed to add to

the Compromise of 1850 was to?



C: Require slaves that had runaway to go back

to their owners


A: Vice President

C: Secretary of State

B: President

D: Secretary of War

What official position in the Confederate States of America did

Alexander Stephens hold?



B: Vice President


A: could not free slaves.

C: could ignore national laws that were harmful to the state.

B: could leave the Union if they wished.

D: interests took precedence over the interest of the national government.

States’ rights can best be defined as the belief that states



D: interests took precedence over the

interest of the national government.


A: Joseph Brown

C: Robert Toombs

B: Thomas Cobb

D: Alexander Stephens

In 1861, there was a spirited debate in the GA General Assembly about if the state should join the

other southern states in breaking away from the Union. Which man called for GA to remain in the

Union?



D: Alexander Stephens


A: African Slave Trade should be ended immediately.

C: A Constitutional Convention should be held to resolve the issue.

B: Slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new territories.

D: All slaves within the US should be freed within 10 yrs.

What was Abraham Lincoln’s official stand on slavery during the

Presidential campaign of 1860?



B: Slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new territories.


A: The North supported high tariffs to subsidize their manufacturing industry

C: The South was opposed to this tariff because it took away profit from cotton farmers.

B: The South was opposed to tariffs because it raised the price of foreign made goods that they wanted to purchase.

D: Great Britain wanted to form an alliance with manufacturing in the North.

One states’ rights issue was the nullification crisis in the early 1830s. All of the following

are true relating to this crisis EXCEPT



D: Great Britain wanted to form an alliance with

manufacturing in the North.


A: nullification

C: states’ rights

B: popular sovereignty

D: sectionalism

What is the ability for the states to decide for themselves if they would

be slave or free?



C: popular sovereignty


A: John Brown and other abolitionists raided Harpers Ferry.

C: the Georgia General Assembly voted for secession.

B: Pro and anti-slavery supporters flooded Kansas to vote for or against slavery.

D: the Dred Scott decision was announced.

Bleeding Kansas was caused when



B: pro and anti-slavery supporters flooded Kansas

to vote for or against slavery.


A: John Breckenridge, Southern Democratic Party

C: Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party

B: Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democratic Party

D: John Bell, Constitutional Union Party

During the Election of 1860, which Presidential candidate received the

SMALLEST number of votes in Georgia?



C: Abraham Lincoln,

Republican Party


A: March to the Sea

C: Destruction of Atlanta

B: Bleeding Georgia

D: Battle of Chickamauga

What was Sherman’s campaign through Georgia called that created a path of destruction 300 miles long and 60 miles wide in which he and his men

destroyed everything of value to Georgia’s citizens?



A: March to the Sea


A: Georgia was the site of most of the military victories.

C: Robert E. Lee once referred to Georgia by that term and the name remained.

B: Georgia’s soldiers fought harder than those from other

confederate states.

D: Georgia had the best railroads and more industry than other Confederate states.

Why was Georgia often referred to as the “Heart of Confederacy”

during the Civil War?



D: Georgia had the best railroads and more industry

than other Confederate states.


A: Jefferson Davis

C: Abraham Lincoln

B: Alexander Stephens

D: Ulysses S. Grant

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?



A: Jefferson Davis


A: He spared the hometown of his West Point roommate.

C: He protected over $28 million worth of cotton stored in Savannah.

B: He gave Savannah to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift.

D: He had divided the upper and lower Confederacy and so did not need to destroy the city.

After the destruction caused by his march through Georgia, why did General Sherman

refrain from burning Savannah ?



C: He protected over $28 million worth of cotton stored in Savannah.


A: to maintain its navy for attacks on northern seaports.

C: to ship and sell its cotton in Europe in exchange for supplies and arms.

B: to maintain the only major transportation resources in the South.

D: to protect the privateers who were making millions in profits from the war.

The South needed to keep its ports open during the war



C: to ship and sell its cotton in Europe in exchange for supplies and arms.


A: The South had a superior way.

C: Great Britain found other ways to trade with the South.

B: Blockade runners slipped through the blockade.

D: The Union did not have enough ships to enforce the blockade.

What contributed to the lack of success of the Union blockade?



B: Blockade runners slipped through the blockade.


A: The North had a standing or established army or navy.

C: The North had many more factories that could produce war materials.

B: The North had heavy railroad tracks and more miles of track.

D: The North had home-field advantage because most battles were fought in their states.

Which statement does not describe an advantage of the Union forces

during the Civil War?



D: The North had home-field advantage because most battles were fought in their states.


A: economy based on agriculture

C: owned most of the slaves

B: more men of combat age

D: more rural areas

All of the following were characteristics of the South EXCEPT



B: More men of combat age

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