Question 1

Despite the controversial effect it had, the Kansas-Nebraska act was first proposed for the purpose of:

furthering the construction of a transcontinental railroad.

establishing trade relations with Japan.

outlawing slavery in any new state admitted to the Union.

revising the electoral college.

Question 2

The primary Union objective concerning foreign relations during the war was:

promoting cotton production in India and Africa thereby undermining the South's economy.

promoting a slave revolt in Brazil to incite fears of such revolts within the South.

urging other nations to recognize the Confederate States as a separate country.

keeping Great Britain and France from recognizing or assisting the Confederate states.

Question 3

Which of the following was the primary reason the South was unable to unify as a country or financially support the war effort?

Davis did not have the political experience Lincoln did and thus was unable to unite the people.

Their nation was built on a shared belief in states' rights which thus inhibited their ability to work as a single nation.

The lack of transportation routes inhibited the dispersal of newspapers and other forms of information.

The North imposed a naval blockade.

Question 4

After the Democratic Party split in 1860, those Northerners who opposed the war, the draft, emancipation, and other steps Lincoln pursued were called:

War Democrats.

Copperheads.

Appeasers.

Damn Yankees.

Question 5

In the 1850s, nativism was rampant throughout the country. Nativism can best be described as a fear of and contempt for:

immigrants.

Native Americans.

African Americans.

the indigent.

Question 6

During the 1864 march through Georgia, known as the "March to the Sea" what man seized, burned, and destroyed everything in his path to Savannah?

Robert E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

William T. Sherman

Question 7

The actual name of the Know-Nothing party was the:

Democratic Party.

American Party.

Whig Party.

Republican Party.

Question 8

From Matthew Perry's efforts, in 1854 the United States began trading with:

Cuba.

Japan.

China.

Spain.

Question 9

The first Union strategy for the Civil War, developed by Winfield Scott, planned to slowly squeeze the South with a blockade at sea and on the Mississippi. This strategy took the name:

Market Garden.

Mongoose.

Anaconda.

Cotton Diplomacy.

Question 10

The events that marked "Bleeding Kansas":

were violent but considered unimportant to the nation.

showed how violent sectional feelings could become.

were quickly quelled and the territory admitted as a slave state.

demonstrated that attacks on immigrants would not be prosecuted.

Question 11

Choose three major battles of the Civil War. Identify each and thoroughly explain their impact on the war.

Question 12

Both Grant and Sherman pursued a new type of warfare. Explain the change in strategy these men employed. Note a battle or campaign in which each man used this new strategy. Finally, was this strategy effective? Why or why not?