U.S. History - OpenStax, Chapters 11-15 Review

In the context of the antebellum era, what does colonization refer to?

American colonization of Africa

The relocation of African Americans to Africa

American colonization of the Caribbean

Great Britain's colonization of North America

The relocation of African Americans to Africa

This movement began with the teachings of John Humphrey Noyes. He believed in perfectionism, the idea that it is possible to be perfect and free of sin. He advocated for "complex marriage:" a form of communal marriage in which women and men who had achieved perfection could engage in sexual intercourse with many partners and without sin, infusing intercourse with spiritual power:

Mormonism

The Shakers

Brooks Farm

The Oneida Community

The Oneida Community

The stressing of stressed transformative individual religious experience or piety over religious rituals and formality was called:

Phrenology

Pietistic

Temperance

Millennialism

Pietistic

Which reformer wrote, "The comparison between women and the colored race is striking . . . both have been kept in subjection by physical force":

Lucretia Mott

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sarah Grimke

Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child

He was born a free black man in North Carolina in 1796. He lectured on slavery, and promoted the first African American newspaper, Freedom's Journal. He called for blacks to actively resist slavery and to use violence if needed. He published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829, denouncing the scheme of colonization and urging blacks to fight for equality in the United States, to take action against racism:

Nat Turner

David Walker

Richard Allen

Frederick Douglass

David Walker

Which of the following did William Lloyd Garrison NOT employ in his abolitionist efforts?

Political involvement

Immediatism

Moral Suasion

Pamphleteering

Political involvement

Transcendentalists were most concerned with:

The individual

The afterlife

Democracy

Predestination

The individual

An influential transcendentalist, he argued that men had the right to resist authority if they deemed it unjust. "All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable." His book Walden; or, Life in the Woods articulated his emphasis on the importance of nature as a gateway to greater individuality:

Charles Grandison Finney

Henry David Thoreau

William Lloyd Garrison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Which community or movement is associated with transcendentalism?

Fourierism

The Oneida Community

The Ephrata Cloister

Brook Farm

Brook Farm

The issue of what to do with these western territories added to the republic by the war of 1846 consumed Congress in 1850 and led to the Compromise of 1850:

Texas

Utah

Mexican Cession

Kansas

Mexican Cession

An antislavery political party formed in 1854 in response to Stephen Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act:

Fire-Eaters

Free Soil Party

Republican Party

American Party

Republican Party

Why did John Brown attack the armory at Harpers Ferry?

To seize weapons to distribute to slaves for a massive uprising

To hold as a military base against proslavery forces

To prevent the southern states from seceding

In revenge after the sacking of Lawrence

To seize weapons to distribute to slaves for a massive uprising

The minority of elite slaveholders who wielded a disproportionate amount of power over the federal government, shaping domestic and foreign policies to suit their interests were called:

Fire-Eaters

Border Ruffians

Radical Abolitionists

The Slave Power

The Slave Power

Prior to the Civil War, all of the following are true about bleeding Kansas, EXCEPT:

Events in Kansas were the last gasp of the Civil War, General Lee surrendered soon after

Pro-slavery settlers crossed the border from Missouri to help make Kansas a slave state

Proslavery mobs burned down the hotel and newspaper office in Lawrence

A small scale civil war began in Kansas over the issue of slavery

Free soilers armed settlers and sent them to Kansas to create a free state

Events in Kansas were the last gasp of the Civil War, General Lee surrendered soon after

Prior to the Civil War, all of the following are true about John Brown's raid, EXCEPT:

The raid took place at Harper's Ferry Virginia

John Brown was captured, tried, and hung

The raid outraged southern slaveholders who were already fearful of slave insurrections

John Brown was a pro-slavery advocate

John Brown was supported by wealthy Boston abolitionists

John Brown was a pro-slavery advocate

Prior to the Civil War, this senator was beaten nearly to death after speaking out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act:

John Brown

Stephen Douglass

Charles Sumner

Preston Brooks

James Buchanan

Charles Sumner

Which of the following did NOT contribute to Lincoln's victory in the election of 1860?

The Constitutional Union Party's further splintering the vote

The split between northern and southern democrats

The defeat of the Whig Party

Lincoln's improved national standing after his senatorial debates with Stephen Douglas

The defeat of the Whig Party

A Democrat, he impressed the South with his regard for the constitutional safeguards for the institution of slavery. He appealed to the North by claiming to be morally opposed to slavery. He won the presidency in 1856:

Stephen Douglas

Zachary Taylor

James Buchanan

John Brown

Millard Fillmore

James Buchanan

All of the following were strengths of the Confederacy, EXCEPT:

Shorter supply lines

A strong navy

The ability to wage a defensive war

The resources of the Upper-South states

A strong navy

Democrats who opposed Lincoln in the 1864 election were called:

Greenbacks

Confederates

Copperheads

Contraband

Copperheads

Paper money the United States began to issue during the Civil War was called:

Copperheads

Habeas Corpus

Greenbacks

Contraband

Greenbacks

What was General Sherman's objective on his March to the Sea?

To destroy military and civilian resources wherever possible

To capture General Robert E. Lee

To free black prisoners of war

To join his army to that of General Grant

To destroy military and civilian resources wherever possible

All of the following were strengths of the Union, EXCEPT:

An extensive railroad

A large population

Substantial industry

The ability to fight defensively, rather than offensively

The ability to fight defensively, rather than offensively

This pejorative term was used for southern whites who supported Reconstruction:

Carpetbaggers

Redeemers

Freedmen

Scalawags

Scalawags

A loan system in which store owners extended credit to farmers for the purchase of goods in exchange for a portion of their future crops is called:

Black Codes

Sharecropping

Ten Percent Plan

Crop-lien system

Crop-lien system

All of the following are true of Frederick Douglass, EXCEPT:

He opposed women's rights and public spoke out on the issue of male superiority

After the war he served as president of the Freedmen's Savings Bank and then the Marshall of Washington D.C.

He escaped from slavery in Maryland

He wrote an autobiography of his life

He became one of the most influential abolitionist speakers prior to the Civil War

He opposed women's rights and public spoke out on the issue of male superiority

All of the following are true about the Civil Rights Act of 1866, EXCEPT:

It was vetoed by Andrew Johnson

It was primarily designed to protect the rights of Black Americans born in the United States

It specifically included Hispanic Americans who had become US citizens after the Mexican American War

the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law

Andrew Johnson's veto was over-ridden by Congress

It specifically included Hispanic Americans who had become US citizens after the Mexican American War

Under Radical Reconstruction, which of the following did former Confederate states NOT need to do in order to rejoin the Union?

Allow all freed men over the age of 21 to vote

Pass the Fifteenth Amendment

Revise their state constitution

Pass the Fourteenth Amendment

Pass the Fifteenth Amendment

As a result of the Adam-Onis Treaty, the United States gained which territory from Spain?

New Mexico

Florida

Nevada

California

Florida

This group, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, explored and mapped the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase:

California Gold Rush

Forty Niners

Corp of Discovery

Louisiana Purchase

Corp of Discovery

All of the following are true about Sacagawea, EXCEPT:

Her presence on the Lewis & Clark expedition helped the group appear less threatening

Kidnapped as a child, at the time of the expedition she was the teenage wife of Toussaint Charbonneau and brought their newborn child with them

She served as a valuable interpreter for the Lewis & Clark expedition

After the Lewis & Clark expedition she married Meriwether Lewis

After the Lewis & Clark expedition she married Meriwether Lewis

This treaty, agreed to between the British and the United States, settled the US border of Oregon at the 49th parallel:

Wilmot Proviso

Tallmadge Amendment

Oregon Treaty

Compromise of 1850

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Oregon Treaty

All of the following are true about the Free Soil Party, EXCEPT:

Their slogan was "free soil, free labor, free speech, and free men"

Their formation was prompted by the failure of the Wilmot Proviso

Their party platform advocated for no further expansion of slavery within the United States

They supported the Dred Scott decision as a final solution to the slavery problem in the United States

The party was a combination of smaller parties dissatisfied with compromises with slavery

They supported the Dred Scott decision as a final solution to the slavery problem in the United States

This amendment (which did not pass) was proposed in 1819 and called for Missouri to be admitted as a free state and for all slaves there to be gradually emancipated:

Tallmadge Amendment

Wilmot Proviso

Missouri Cession

Missouri Compromise

Tallmadge Amendment

Texas won its independence from Mexico in?

1836

1830

1821

1845

1836

This amendment to a revenue bill would have barred slavery from all the territory acquired from Mexico:

Tallmadge Amendment

Wilmot Proviso

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

All of the following are true about southern honor, EXCEPT:

Southern honor required that rich men face off in a duel. If both men survive the duel, they consider themselves fortunate and then write a series of letters to each other to resolve their differences.

It was more disgraceful to betray an honor than it was to molest young girls.

The concept of honor in the South had much to do with control over dependents such as slaves, children, wives, and other relatives.

Southern white men of high social status settled their differences with duels.

Southern honor required that rich men face off in a duel. If both men survive the duel, they consider themselves fortunate and then write a series of letters to each other to resolve their differences.

Why did southern expansionists conduct filibuster expeditions?

To map unknown territories

To annex new slave states

To gain political advantage

To prove they could raise an army

To annex new slave states

All of the following are true of the domestic slave trade, EXCEPT:

While substantial, the portion of African Americans held as slaves never exceeded eighty-five percent.

Slavery formed the very foundation of U.S. economic success

After the U.S. Congress banned participation in the Atlantic slave trade, some slaveholders took to selling "excess" bondsmen from plantations with lower labor needs to plantations further west and south that had higher labor needs.

The selling of slaves in the South made up one of the largest forced internal migrations in the U.S.

While substantial, the portion of African Americans held as slaves never exceeded eighty-five percent.

All of the following are true about the free black population, EXCEPT:

Legally free blacks in the South enjoyed all the social and political benefits of free whites in the South.

Although rare, some free blacks, such as Andrew Dunford, owned slaves of their own.

Most free blacks were lighter skinned women, a reflection of the interracial unions that formed between white men and black women.

More free blacks lived in the South than in the North

Legally free blacks in the South enjoyed all the social and political benefits of free whites in the South.

All of the following are true about Nat Turner, EXCEPT:

His revolt was discovered before Turner could act on it, as a result no one was killed.

He was bolstered by his Christian faith and believed that he, like Christ, should lay down his life to end slavery.

He led a failed slave revolt in Virginia in 1831, was captured, and hung.

Shocked by Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia's state legislature considered ending slavery in the state in order to provide greater security.

His revolt was discovered before Turner could act on it, as a result no one was killed.

The controversy at the heart of the Ostend Manifesto centered on the fate of:

Louisiana

Nicaragua

Cuba

Ostend, Belgium

Cuba

This term refers to "before the war":

Paternalism

Second Middle Passage

Polygenism

Antebellum

Antebellum

All of the following are true about the phrase "to be sold down the river," EXCEPT:

It referred to the expanded transportation of cotton on steamboats along the Mississippi River

This forced migration of slaves to the Deep South meant that African Americans composed the vanguard of American expansion to the South West.

Harriet Beecher Stowe used the phrase in her 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

It referred to the forced migration of slaves from the upper southern states to the Deep South

It referred to the expanded transportation of cotton on steamboats along the Mississippi River

All of the following are true about Joseph Smith, EXCEPT:

He believed in gender equality.

He presented himself as a prophet and aimed to recapture what he viewed as the purity of the primitive Christian church, purity that had been lost over the centuries.

His vision of a reinvigorated patriarchy resonated with men and women who had not thrived during the market revolution, and his claims attracted those who hoped for a better future. Smith also received further revelations there, including one that allowed male church leaders to practice polygamy.

In 1823, Smith claimed to have to been visited by the angel Moroni, who told him the location of a trove of golden plates or tablets.

He believed in gender equality.

The strategy of moving African Americans out of the United States, usually to Africa, was called:

Colonization

Teetotalism

Abolition

Immediatism

Colonization

Which of the following did William Lloyd Garrison NOT employ in his abolitionist efforts?

Pamphleteering

Immediatism

Political involvement

Moral Suasion

Political involvement

All of the following are true about the Republican Mother, EXCEPT:

Her role emphasized the education of children

Her intelligence and virtue could restore the moral center of the nation

Her role was based on the belief that women were inherently more moral

She was deemed by nature to be less morally disciplined than men.

She was deemed by nature to be less morally disciplined than men.

This American denomination, also known as the Latter Day Saints, emphasized patriarchal leadership:

Mormons

Transcendentalism

Second Great Awakening

Washingtonians

Mormons

He was born in Maryland in 1818, escaping to New York in 1838. His commanding presence and powerful speaking skills electrified his listeners when he began to provide public lectures on slavery. He published an autobiography in which he identified by name the whites who had brutalized him, and for that reason, along with the mere act of publishing his story, he had to flee the United States to avoid being murdered:

Richard Allen

Nat Turner

David Walker

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates:

Lincoln's national profile was raised.

Lincoln successfully defended the principle of popular sovereignty.

Douglas was elected senator of Illinois.

Citizens in both the North and South followed the debates closely.

Lincoln successfully defended the principle of popular sovereignty.

All of the following are true about the Dred Scott decision, EXCEPT:

Found the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional

Declared that Blacks were not entitled to the rights of U.S. citizens

Determined that if a slave was taken by an owner to a free state or free territory they were free

Ruled that only a state could exclude slavery

Found that slaves were property and that property rights were protected under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution

Determined that if a slave was taken by an owner to a free state or free territory they were free

In the 1850s, which of the following was a focus of the new Republican Party?

Encouraging the use of popular sovereignty to determine where slavery could exist

Supporting Irish Catholic immigrants

Halting the spread of slavery

Promoting states' rights

Halting the spread of slavery

The principle of letting the people residing in a territory decide whether or not to permit slavery in that area based on majority rule was called:

Popular Sovereignty

Freeport Doctrine

Compromise of 1850

Free Soil Platform

Popular Sovereignty

All of the following are true about the Fugitive Slave Act, EXCEPT:

It provided federal money—or "bounties"—to slave-catchers.

This federal law imposed heavy fines and prison sentences on northerners and midwesterners who aided runaway slaves or refused to join posses to catch fugitives.

This federal law helped reduce tensions between North and South over the issue of slavery.

This law established a new group of federal commissioners who would decide the fate of fugitives brought before them. In some instances, slave-catchers even brought in free northern blacks, prompting abolitionist societies to step up their efforts to prevent kidnappings. The commissioners had a financial incentive to send fugitives and free blacks to the slaveholding South, since they received ten dollars for every African American sent to the South and only five if they decided the person who came before them was actually free. The commissioners used no juries, and the alleged runaways could not testify in their own defense

This federal law helped reduce tensions between North and South over the issue of slavery.

These five laws were passed by Congress to resolve issues stemming from the Mexican Cession and the sectional crisis:

LeCompton Constitution

Kansas Nebraska Acts

Compromise of 1850

Freeport Doctrine

Compromise of 1850

Race-mixing through sexual relations or marriage was called:

Abolition

Polygenism

Phrenology

Miscegenation

Miscegenation

This compromise, suggested by a Kentucky senator, would have restored the 36 30' line from the Missouri Compromise and extended it to the Pacific Ocean, allowing slavery to expand into the southwestern territories:

Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg Address

Crittenden Compromise

Confederate Constitution

Crittenden Compromise

Signed on January 1, 1863, this document was used by President Lincoln to transform the Civil War into a struggle to end slavery:

Crittenden Compromise

Emancipation Proclamation

The Contraband Conversion

Total War Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation

All of the following are true about the United States Civil War, EXCEPT:

One cause of the war was the desire to expand United States political control over sugar plantations in the Caribbean

It was fought between Union and the Confederacy

One cause of the war was the question of whether or not slavery would expand into newly acquired western territories and states

One cause of the war was the growing abolitionist movement advocating that slavery was morally wrong

One cause of the war was the differences between the free market economy of the North and the slave based economy of the South

One cause of the war was the desire to expand United States political control over sugar plantations in the Caribbean

The commander of land forces was called:

Army of the Potomac

Ulysses S. Grant

General in Chief

Army of the West

General in Chief

An oath that the Wade-Davis Bill required a majority of voters and government officials in Confederate states to take; it involved swearing that they had never supported the Confederacy:

Iron-clad Oath

The Ten Percent Plan

Redeemption

Compromise of 1877

Iron-clad Oath

All of the following are true about the black codes, EXCEPT:

The codes were intended to identify and enforce all of the new civil rights of freedmen after the Civil War

Some of the codes required that Blacks remain in low wage labor contracts

They restricted the civil rights of Black Americans after the Civil War

Some of the codes included vagrancy laws that allowed for Blacks to be arrested and forced to work if they did not already have a labor contract

Most black codes were in the South, however, many northern states also had similar laws

The codes were intended to identify and enforce all of the new civil rights of freedmen after the Civil War

Northern Republicans who contested Lincoln's treatment of Confederate states and proposed harsher punishments were called:

Radical Republicans

Carpetbaggers

Redeemers

Scalawags

Radical Republicans

He shot and killed Abraham Lincoln:

Ulysses S. Grant

Samuel Tilden

Hiram Revels

Rutherford B. Hayes

John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth

This law ended slavery in the United States:

14th Amendment

15 Amendment

Civil Rights Act of 1866

13th Amendment

The Military Reconstruction Act

13th Amendment

All of the following are true of Susan B. Anthony, EXCEPT:

She opposed Elizabeth Cady Stanton's efforts to promote woman's suffrage believing that women best belonged in the home

She was a leader in the woman's suffrage movement

She was an ardent abolitionist and worked for the end of slavery in the United States

She was arrested and convicted for voting in New York

She helped Elizabeth Cady Stanton gather over 400K petitions to end slavery

She opposed Elizabeth Cady Stanton's efforts to promote woman's suffrage believing that women best belonged in the home

One of the white vigilante organizations that engaged in terroristic violence with the aim of stopping Reconstruction was called:

Ku Klux Klan

Union Leagues

Scalawags

Carpetbaggers

Ku Klux Klan

All of the following are true about sharecropping, EXCEPT:

Sharecroppers often took out loans for the seeds and tools needed to produce a crop, expecting to pay off the loan at harvest time

Sharecroppers were land owners who hired others to work their land

Sharecroppers did not own their own tools and equipment

Sharecroppers worked the land of another and shared in the profits from the crop at the end of the year

Sharecroppers were land owners who hired others to work their land

Which of the following was NOT one of the functions of the Freedmen's Bureau?

Helping workers secure labor contracts

Establishing schools

Collecting taxes

Reuniting families

Collecting taxes

The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson over:

The Tenure of Office Act

The Fourteenth Amendment

The Civil Rights Act

The Military Reconstruction Act

The Tenure of Office Act

All of the following are true about the 10% plan to re-unite the North and South after the Civil War, EXCEPT:

This plan was considered incredibly strict and made too many demands on White Southerners

This plan allowed for ex-Confederate states to rejoin the Union when 10% of those who had voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the Nation

This plan allowed for the pardoning of all Southerners except high level officials

Under this plan Lincoln promised that White Southerners would keep all their property, but not their slaves

This was Abraham Lincoln's plan to re-unite the North and South

This plan was considered incredibly strict and made too many demands on White Southerners

This legislation was made up of five separate laws passed by Congress in 1850 to resolve issues stemming from the Mexican-American War and the sectional crisis:

Compromise of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

Mexican Cession

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Mexican residents of Texas were called:

Alcaldes

Californios

Empresarios

Tejanos

Tejanos

Mexican residents of California were called:

Empresarios

Alcalde

Tejanos

Californios

Californios

All of the following are true about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, EXCEPT:

The suspected slave could not ask for a jury trial or testify on his or her own behalf

any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter was subject to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine

Free persons falsely accused of being a runaway slave were awarded a monetary fee to compensate them for their time and attorney fees

It penalized officials who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave

Law-enforcement officials everywhere were required to arrest people suspected of being a runaway slave on as little as a claimant's sworn testimony of ownership

Officers who captured a fugitive slave were entitled to a bonus or promotion for their work

Free persons falsely accused of being a runaway slave were awarded a monetary fee to compensate them for their time and attorney fees

This event initiated the process of adding Texas to the United States as a slave state:

Texas Revolution

Compromise of 1850

Panic of 1837

Missouri Compromise

Mexican American War

Texas Revolution

At the end of the Mexican American war, this proposal would have banned slavery from all of the territories gained from Mexico:

Wilmot Proviso

Tallmadge Amendment

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Missouri Compromise

Ostend Manifesto

Wilmot Proviso

In the 19th century, a person who engages in an unofficial military operation intended to seize land from foreign countries or foment revolution there was called a:

Filibuster

Corps of Discovery

Slave Power

Barnburners

Filibuster

The upswing in American cotton production during the nineteenth century was called:

Second middle passage

Slave power

Cotton gin

Cotton boom

Cotton boom

This powerful Southern politician defended states' rights, especially the right of the southern states to protect slavery from a hostile northern majority:

Franklin Pierce

William Lloyd Garrison

William Ellison

John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun

Born in slave in 1790 in South Carolina, he purchased his freedom. Buying up slaves himself and putting them to work manufacturing cotton gins. By the eve of the Civil War he was one of the richest men in the state:

William Walker

William Ellison

George Fitzhugh

Frederick Douglass

William Ellison

The idea that blacks and whites come from different origins is called:

Paternalism

Second middle passage

Polygenism

Slave power

Polygenism

The trading of slaves within the borders of the United States was called:

Domestic slave trade

Second middle passage

Paternalism

Slave markets

Domestic slave trade

Which of the following was NOT one of the effects of the cotton boom?

Northern manufacturing expanded

U.S. trade increased with France and Spain

Port cities like New Orleans expanded

The need for slave labor grew

U.S. trade increased with France and Spain

He founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in the 1790s:

David Walker

Nat Turner

Frederick Douglass

Richard Allen

Richard Allen

Born in New York in 1792, he became a leading minister during the Second Great Awakening. He preached that all people possessed free moral agency, meaning they could change their lives and bring about their own salvation, amessage that resonated with members of the middle class, who already believed their worldly efforts had led to their economic success:

Charles Grandison Finney

Joseph Smith

William Lloyd Garrison

Lyman Beecher

Charles Grandison Finney

The moral demand to take immediate action against slavery to bring about its end was called:

Temperance

Colonization

Immediatism

Abolition

Immediatism

The following introduction, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that allmen and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," can be found in:

The Book of Mormon

The Declaration of Sentiments

The Declaration of Independence

The Temperance Laws

The Declaration of Sentiments

The location of the first American conference on women's rights and the signing of the "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" in 1848:

Brook Farm

Seneca Falls

Oneida

Cane Ridge

Seneca Falls

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Second Great Awakening?

Greater emphasis on religious education of children

Greater church attendance

Greater emphasis on nature

Belief in the possibility of a better world

Greater emphasis on nature

This South Carolinian attacked Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner after his speech denouncing "border ruffians" pouring into Kansas from Missouri:

John C. Calhoun

Preston Brooks

James Buchanan

Roger Taney

Preston Brooks

In 1854, this political party was formed. It was the first political party in the United States to claim that slavery was a moral evil:

Free Soil

Whig

Republican

American Party

Democratic

Republican

All of the following are true about Harriet Tubman, EXCEPT:

She was one of the thousands of slaves who made their escape through the Underground Railroad.

She returned to the South more than a dozen times to lead other slaves, including her family and friends, along the Underground Railroad to freedom.

A plantation mistress, she secretly helped enslaved African Americans learn to read and write.

Born a slave in Maryland around 1822, Tubman, who suffered greatly under slavery but found solace in Christianity.

A plantation mistress, she secretly helped enslaved African Americans learn to read and write.

In this 1857 case the Supreme Court ruled that Blacks could not be citizens and Congress had no jurisdiction to impede the expansion of slavery:

LeCompton v. Freeport

Dred Scott v. Sanford

The Pottowatomie Decision

The Popular Sovereignty Clause

Dred Scott v. Sanford

The right of those arrested to be brought before a judge or court to determine whether there is cause to hold the prisoner is called:

Contraband

Habeas Corpus

Emancipation

Gettysburg Guarantee

Habeas Corpus

A state of war in which the government makes no distinction between military and civilian targets, and mobilizes all resources, extending its reach into all areas of citizens' lives is called:

Emancipation

Total War

Contraband Strategy

Habeas Corpus

Total War

The new nation formed by the seceding southern states was called:

The Emancipated States

The Union

The Slave Power

The Confederacy

The Confederacy

Arguably the best military commander of his day, he served as a General in charge of the Confederate Army:

Robert E. Lee

William Tecumseh Sherman

Ulysses S. Grant

Jefferson Davis

Robert E. Lee

This speech by Abraham Lincoln dedicated the military cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863:

Gettysburg Address

The Bull Run Initiative

Crittenden Compromise

Confederate Constitution

Gettysburg Address