DCUSH Quiz 8

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

freed slaves only in areas in rebellion against the United States but not in areas that
remained loyal

the 13th amendment established?

the legal end of slavery in America

In 1867, Secretary of State Seward accomplished an enduring success in foreign relations for the Johnson administration when he?

purchased Alaska from Russia

What describes the defeat of the KKK?

Ex Confederate state legislators passed Jim Crow laws that placed negroes into second class citizenship

know the picture of Andrew Johnson

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The Army of the Potomac had many leaders before Ulysses Grant. Beside Grant, which of the following led the Army of the Potomac

Joseph Hooker
George McClellan
Ambrose Burnside
George Meade

Who was responsible for the 10% plan?

Abraham Lincoln

During the Civil War, Northern black leaders such as Frederick Douglass worked as army recruiting agents because they believed that?

black participation in the army would be a step toward full black citizenship

At the outset of the Civil War, President Lincoln said in his first inaugural address that the war was being fought to?

preserve the Union

Copperheads" were Americans in the US House and Senate that opposes the union participation in the Civil War and worked for peace.

true

Union troops who were killed at the Battle of Centralia are buried here in Jefferson City in the national cemetery

true

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was the leader of the Army of Northern Virginia. He surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.

false

The Union army began to draft troops into the military during the Civil War. The law creating the draft left no room for Northerners to get an exemption (get out) of the draft.

false

Ulysses S Grant defeated Andrew Johnson for the office of President in 1868.

false

Carpetbaggers were Northerners who came south following the American Civil War. They were to teach blacks how to read and write. They also helped run the southern state until the southern states could be certified as a state by Congress.

true

With the election of Rutherford B Hayes in 1876, the time called Reconstruction ended.

true

We associate the Tweed Ring with southerners who attempted to take back their stage during reconstruction. For the most part, the ring was highly successful in getting control of southern state legislatures.

false

Grant won the 1868 election. He received votes from two thirds of the former Confederate states. Grant was able to win in a former Confederate state at this time because the 15th Amendment had enfranchised many former Confederate white male voters.

true

1.The final strategy to defeat the Confederacy during the Civil War included which of the following components?

Destruction of the Confederate Army
undermining the Confederate economy
a naval blockade
seizing control of the Mississippi River and other key waterways

The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because it?

inflicted a major loss on General Lee's army

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was important because it?

guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen

The Battle of Antietam was?

the bloodiest single day's fighting of the war

Which of the following battle sites was the place where Lee and Jackson led an inspired attack of the Union forces under Hooker. During a survey of the enemy position, Jackson would be shot by his own men and die a week later of pneumonia?

Battle of Chancellorsville

know picture of US Grant

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The name of the Speaker of the House during the Administration of Andrew Johnson, who attempted to remove Johnson through impeachment, was which of the following individuals

Thaddeus Stevens

Which of the following is the best description of a "greenback"?

paper money not backed by specie

We associate the exodus movement with which of the following episodes in American history ?

Movement of former slaves from southern states to great plains states and territories

Scalawags were northerners who came south to teach blacks how to read and write and to administer the state governmental operations until reconstruction is over.

false

When whites took over southern legislatures, they passed laws that made it difficult for blacks to achieve full citizenship in that state. These laws became known as Jim Crow laws.

true

The whiskey ring was an attempt by northern bars not to pay the whiskey tax. The whiskey ring was first discovered in New York City, when members of the tweed ring were discussing how to get around the tax and their story was quoted in newspapers.

false

After Lincoln's death, President Andrew Johnson implemented an idea called the 10% plan. This 10% plan was a way for southern states to reenter the union.

false

William Sherman was a Confederate commander who was defeated at Shiloh and later in Georgia. He was unable to stop the Union forces as the Union completed its march to the Sea.

false

The Civil War ended in the east when Robert E Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.

true

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. In that same year Jefferson Davis was hung by your military tribunal for his crime of being a leader of the confederate states of America.

false

We associate Pickett's Charge with the battle of Gettysburg.

true

All of the battles fought here in the state of Missouri during the American Civil War are examples of gorilla warfare.

false

Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, who became President?

Andrew Johnson

What does the word disenfranchisement mean?

Taking the right to vote away

Horace Greeley ran for president of the US in 1872. Which of the following Republicans ran against him and was victorious?

US Grant

The Union had many commanders of its Army of the Potomac. What was the name of the Union commander at the Battle of Antietam ?

George McClellan

In the Anaconda Plan, the north felt it had to take away transportation routes from the South. This included river and rail road lines.

true