History Quiz 10

At the outbreak of war in 1861, Lincoln's primary objective was to

Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote: "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'"

Most historians view Reconstruction (1865-1877) as a democratic experiment that failed because it

Which region of the United States saw a growth in industrialization in the 1850s and 1860s?

The military significance of the battle of Gettysburg was that

In the mid-1850s, fear of America's ability to assimilate the many new immigrant groups led to a political and cultural outlook called

Who was elected as the president of the Confederate States of America?

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1865,

An important element in the Union conquest of the South was the devastating 300-mile "march to the sea" conducted by whom?

The North had the advantage in all of the following at the start of the war EXCEPT

Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and for his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves to be free

As a soldier in the Civil War you were twice as likely to die from ________ as from ________.

Where did the initial conflict of the American Civil War take place?

Lincoln, later revered as the Great Emancipator, infringed on the civil liberties of northerners at the start of the Civil War—specifically by

Which of the following statements about Abraham Lincoln is most accurate?

Lincoln's support in the 1860 Election came from

The bloodiest single day in American history took place on September 17, 1862, as a result of which battle?

Where was President Lincoln assassinated?

What was the name of the political party that emerged in New York City in the early 1850s as a secret nativist society who opposed the impact of Catholic immigrants on America?

Which of the following factors was most clearly an advantage for the South at the beginning of the war?

Which state, which had been at the heart of the nullification crisis of the 1830s, became the first state to secede on December 20, 1860, and was also the state in which the first shot of the Civil War was fired?

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would be the status of slavery in those western territories?

The Fifteenth Amendment (1870)

The Civil War's greatest battle was fought in which Pennsylvania town?