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The events that marked "Bleeding Kansas":

Answer

		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.

3 points

Question 2

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

Answer

		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.

3 points

Question 3

The Emancipation Proclamation accomplished which of the following?

Answer

		It freed slaves only in the Confederate controlled areas.
		It effectively ended slavery - freeing slaves in both the North and South.
		It demonstrated that Lincoln would not use the end of slavery as a war aim.
		It freed slaves only in the border states and those former Confederate states the Union now occupied.

3 points

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Fugitive Slave Act ?

Answer

		It allowed captured fugitives a hearing in which they were allowed to testify.
		It dramatically increased the power of slave owners to capture escaped slaves.
		Slave owners now had the full support of the federal government.
		It imposed penalties on citizens who protected or assisted fugitives.

3 points

Question 5

The border states included all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer

		Delaware.
		Maryland.
		Kansas.
		Missouri.

3 points

Question 6

The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills which included all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer

		California was admitted as a free state.
		the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.
		a stronger fugitive slave law was to be enforced nation-wide.
		slavery was excluded from all parts of the Mexican Cession.

3 points

Question 7

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a call to action for which reform movement?

Answer

		Women's suffrage
		Asylum reform
		Abolition
		Prohibition

3 points

Question 8

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

Answer

		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.

3 points

Question 9

While some lesser skirmishes continued, the end of the Civil War is most effectively dated April 9, 1865 when Robert E. Lee and his troops surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at:

Answer

		Gettysburg.
		Cold Harbor.
		Guilford Court House.
		Appomattox Court House.

3 points

Question 10

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

Answer

		immigrants.
		Native Americans.
		African Americans.
		the indigent.

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

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Compare and contrast the political attitudes toward slavery of Stephen A. Douglas with those of Abraham Lincoln. What were the results of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?