Transcript Uncle Tom`s Cabin

Born a poor white
southerner, he became
the white South’s
champion against radical
Reconstruction.
Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles
Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor because
a) Sumner had helped to fund John Brown’s violent
activities in Kansas
b) Sumner had used abusive language to describe
the South and a South Carolina senator
c) Sumner had threatened to kill Brooks if he had
the opportunity
d) Sumner had personally blocked the admission of
Kansas to the Union as a slave state
Laudatory term for white
southerners who worked to
overthrow Reconstruction
and stablish Home Rule
regimes in the southern
states.
Name one of the FOUR
original Border States
where secession failed
but slavery still
survived.
Derogatory term for white
southerners who cooperated
with the Republican
Reconstruction
governments.
Union commander
who first made his
mark with victories
in the West.
In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party
a) Tried to unite around the compromising popular
sovereignty views of Stephen A. Douglas
b) Campaigned on a promise of restoring the
compromises of 1820 and 1850
c) Split in two, with each faction nominating its
own presidential candidate
d) Threatened to support secession if the
sectionally-based Republicans won the election
Leading northern
Democrat whose
presidential hopes fell
victim to the conflict
over slavery.
Constitutional amendment,
passed eight months after
the Civil War, that
permanently ended slavery
throughout the United
States.
Within two months after the election of Lincoln
a) Northerners were mobilizing for a civil war
b) Seven southern states had seceded and
formed the Confederate States of America
c) All the slaveholding states had held
conventions and passed secessionist
resolutions
d) The southern states had demanded a
constitutional convention to guarantee the
future of slavery
The financial and economic collapse of 1857
increased northern anger at the South’s refusal
to support
a) Banking regulation and development of a
sound paper currency
b) A transcontinental railroad and transatlantic
telegraph
c) Publicly supported state universities
d) Higher tariffs and free western homesteads
for farmers
Sherman’s march “from Atlanta to the Sea” was
especially notable for its
a) Effective use of public relations to turn Southern
sympathies against the Confederacy
b) Brutal use of total war tactics of destruction and
pillaging against Southern civilian populations
c) Impact in inspiring Northern public opinion to
turn against slavery
d) Commitment to emancipate slaves and bring
them into the Union Army
Black Republican
senator from
Mississippi during
Reconstruction.
Derogatory term for
Northerners who came to the
South during Reconstruction
and sometimes took part in
Republican state governments.
Fanatical and bloodyminded abolitionist
martyr admired in the
North and hatred in the
South.
Lincoln at first declared that the war was being
fought to
a) Only save the Union and not to free the slaves
b) In order to end slavery except the Border States
c) Only to punish South Carolina for firing on Fort
Sumter
d) Only to restore federal control over the forts and
arsenals in the South
The constitutional
amendment granting civil
rights to freed slaves and
barring former
Confederates from office.
Among the advantages the Union possessed at the
beginning of the Civil War was
a) Better preparation of its ordinary soldiers for
military life
b) A continuing influx of immigrant manpower from
Europe
c) The ability to fight a primarily defensive war
d) Strong support from the British and French
aristocracy
The federal agency that
greatly assisted blacks
educationally but failed
in other aid efforts.
The Black Codes, passed by many of the Johnsonapproved Southern state governments in late 1865, aimed
to
a) Provide economic assistance to get former slaves
started as sharecroppers
b) Permit blacks to vote if they met certain educational
or economic standards
c) Force blacks to leave the South
d) Ensure a stable and subservient labor force under
white control
Lincoln’s original plan for Reconstruction in 1863 was that
a state could be reintegrated into the Union when
a) It repealed its original secession act and withdrew its
soldiers from the Confederate Army
b) Ten percent of its voters took an oath of allegiance to
the Union and pledged to abide by emancipation
c) It formally adopted a plan guaranteeing black political
and economic rights
d) It ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
to the Constitution
The thousands of black soldiers in the Union Army
a) Added a powerful new weapon to the
antislavery dimension of the Union cause
b) Were largely prevented from participating in
combat
c) Were enlisted primarily to compensate for the
military advantage that the South enjoyed
because of slavery
d) Were enthusiastic but relatively ineffective in
combat
Constitutional protection
against arbitrary arrest and
imprisonment that was
suspended by President Lincoln
on the grounds that the Union
was at risk of destruction.
Besides putting the South under the rule of federal
soldiers, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 required that all
the reconstructed southern states must
a) Give blacks the right to vote as a condition of
readmission to the Union.
b) Give blacks and carpetbaggers majority control of
Southern legislatures
c) Provide former slaves with land and education at state
expense
d) Effectively suppress the Ku Klux Klan and other white
supremacist groups
Violent protests by largely
Irish working class citizens
against being forced to serve
in a war against slavery that
they opposed.
Antietam was one of the crucial battles of the Civil
War because
a) It ended any further possibility of Confederate
invasion of the North
b) It fundamentally undermined Confederate
morale
c) The death of Lee’s greatest general, Stonewall
Jackson crippled his military effectiveness
d) It prevented British and French recognition of
the Confederacy
Leader of the
radical Republicans
in the House of
Representatives.
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
a) Ruled that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was
unconstitutional
b) Ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in
any of the territories because slaves were private
property of which owners could not be deprived
c) Ruled that Dred Scott was still a slave because he
had not filed suit until he had been returned to the
slave state of Missouri
d) Ruled that Dred Scott had to be freed because his
owner had taken him into the free state of Illinois
Women’s rights leaders opposed the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments because
a) They objected to racial integration in the
women’s movement
b) The amendments granted citizenship and voting
rights to black and white men but not to women
c) Most of them were Democrats who would be
hurt by the amendments
d) They feared interracial sex and marriage
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a)Was strongly rooted in religiously based
antislavery sentiments
b)Argued that non-slaveholding whites suffered
the most from slavery
c)Helped northerners understand that
southerners disliked the cruelty of slavery
d)Portrayed black slaves as seething with anger
and potential violence
The Fifteenth Amendment provided for
a) Readmitting Southern states to the
Union
b) Full citizenship and civil rights for
former slaves
c) Voting rights for former slaves
d) Voting rights for women
During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and
the Republican party
a) Opposed the expansion of slavery but did not
threaten to attack slavery in the South
b) Promised, if elected, to seek peaceful,
compensated abolition of slavery in the South
c) Were forced to be cautious about limiting the
expansion of slavery because of Stephen A.
Douglas’s threats to support secession
d) Focused entirely on the slavery question
A new nation that
declared its
independence in
Montgomery, Alabama
in February 1861.
The major long-term effect of white terrorist
organizations like the Ku Klux Klan was to
a) Disempower blacks politically and restore white
supremacy
b) Drive the U.S. Army out of the South
c) Create a permanent secret government of former
Confederates in the southern states
d) Make most southerners forget their nostalgia for
the lost cause of the Confederacy
Term that described the
prairie territory where a
small-scale civil war between
abolitionists and proslavery
border ruffians erupted in
1856.
Laws designed to
stamp out Ku Klux
Klan terrorism in
the South.
Officially, the Emancipation Proclamation freed
slaves
a) Who had fled their masters and joined the
Union army
b) Under the control of the rebellious
Confederate states
c) In Washington, D.C.
d) Whose masters were loyal to the
Confederacy
An inexperienced
leader in war but a
genius at inspiring and
directing his nation’s
cause.
Northern Democrats
who openly opposed
the Civil War and
sympathized with the
South.
The radical Republicans’ impeachment of President
Andrew Johnson resulted in
a) A revision in the impeachment clause of the
Constitution to make such an action more difficult
b) Johnson’s conviction on the charge of violating the
Tenure of Office Act
c) Johnson’s resignation and appointment of Ulysses
Grant as his successor
d) A failure to convict and remove Johnson from the
presidency by a margin of only one vote
“The little woman
who wrote the
book that made this
great war.”
The radical Reconstruction regimes in the Southern
states
a) Took away Southerners’ civil rights and voting
rights
b) Consisted almost entirely of blacks
c) Established public education and adopted many
needed reforms
d) Were almost 100% honest and free from
corruption
What Came First?
Correct = +1
Incorrect = -1
MUST answer the
question
a) The firing on fort Sumter unifies the
North and leads to Lincoln’s call for
troops.
b) A Republican’s minority sectional
victory in a presidential election
provokes southern secession.
a) Lincoln announces a plan to
rapidly restore southern states to
the Union.
b) The Civil War ends with the
defeated army granted generous
terms of surrender.
a) The hanging of a fanatically violent abolitionist
makes him a martyr in the North and a hated symbol
in the South.
b) Fictional tale of a black slave’s vicious treatment
by the cruel Simon Legree touches millions of
northern hearts and creates stronger opposition to
slavery.
a) A newly organized territory becomes a bloody
battleground between proslavery and antislavery
forces.
b) A black slave’s attempt to win freedom produces a
controversial Supreme Court decision.
a) A battle in Maryland enables Lincoln to declare
that the Civil War has become a war on slavery.
b) In both Georgia and Virginia, determined
Northern generals wage bloody and destructive total
war against a weakened but still resisting South.
a) A Republican’s minority sectional victory in a
presidential election provokes southern secession.
b) A newly organized territory becomes a bloody
battleground between proslavery and antislavery
forces.
a) A black slave’s attempt to win freedom produces a
controversial Supreme Court decision.
b) The hanging of a fanatically violent abolitionist
makes him a martyr in the North and a hated symbol
in the South.
a) Fictional tale of a black slave’s vicious treatment
by the cruel Simon Legree touches millions of
northern hearts and creates stronger opposition to
slavery.
b) A newly organized territory becomes a bloody
battleground between proslavery and antislavery
forces.
a) The hanging of a fanatically violent abolitionist
makes him a martyr in the North and a hated symbol
in the South.
b) A battle in Maryland enables Lincoln to declare
that the Civil War has become a war on slavery.
a) Constitution is amended to guarantee formerly
enslaved men the right to vote.
b) Johnson’s attempt to restore the South to the
Union is overturned because of congressional
hostility to ex-Confederates and southern passage of
the Black Codes.
a) Constitution is amended to guarantee formerly
enslaved men the right to vote.
b) An unpopular antiradical president escapes
conviction and removal from office by one vote.
a) Northern troops are withdrawn from the South,
and Southern state governments are reconstituted
without federal constraint.
b) Johnson’s attempt to restore the South to the
Union is overturned because of congressional
hostility to ex-Confederates and southern passage of
the Black Codes.