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Chapter 13 Summative Quiz

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1. Advocates of secession claimed the federal government failed to enforce what key laws protecting the rights of slaveholders?

Lecompton Constitution and Dred Scott decision

Fugitive Slave Act and Lecompton Constitution

Dred Scott decision and Missouri Compromise

Fugitive Slave Act and Dred Scott decision

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2. Why were southern slaveholders anxious about the loyalty of white southerners who did not own slaves?

Non-slaveholders not only did not benefit from slavery, but slavery actually undermined their economic opportunities.

Non-slaveholders were susceptible to bribery by northern merchants.

Slaveholders believed that poor whites were stupid and might not understand their place.

White southerners had a history of betraying elite planters.

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3. As Civil War fighting began, northern politicians and editors predicted

that the war would result in the complete abolition of slavery.

a quick and lopsided struggle.

a serious battle in which the Union would ultimately succeed.

that the South would eventually regret secession.

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4. When the Union referred to fugitive slaves as “contraband” of war, it meant they were

to be treated as free because slavery was against the will of the Union.

to be immediately imprisoned and isolated for the duration of the war.

part of the spoils of war, there for the taking by the strongest men.

property forfeited by slaveholders in the act of rebellion.

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5. What experience turned many a Union soldier into an abolitionist?

The abolition literature that circulated in the nineteenth century

Listening to the rhetoric of Confederate leaders

Witnessing slavery firsthand throughout the South

Putting their lives on the line to defend the Union

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6. In what parts of the United States was slavery abolished under the Emancipation Proclamation?

Everywhere, from sea to sea

Only in the Union states

Only in the Confederate states

Only in those states where slavery was still legal

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7. What effect did the Civil War have on the economy of the North?

Production increased, but profits did not.

Production, efficiency, and jobs all increased.

Although production remained steady, many jobs remained unfilled.

Profits skyrocketed while efficiency suffered.

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8. What developments forced the South to industrialize during the Civil War?

It was too expensive to buy goods from the North anymore.

The war forbade trade with the North for goods.

Europe refused to trade with the South at all.

The South had a surplus of labor and supplies.

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9. In 1863, what development caused four days of the worst rioting Americans had yet seen?

The draft law

The surrender of the North

The extension of suffrage to black men

A food shortage across the North

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10. As the Civil War approached its final stages, General Ulysses S. Grant

grew weary of the war and decided to target the Confederate president.

hoped to take Atlanta, cut the South in two, and end the war.

embraced a strategy of total war, attacking both civilian and military targets.

called for a war of attrition to minimize violence and death.

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11. What did the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution achieve?

The right to vote for any black man over the age of 18

The right of citizenship for anyone regardless of race

The abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude

The execution of Confederate leaders for treason

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12. What was the great blight on an otherwise heroic Union war effort?

The attacks on black men and women by Union forces in the Carolinas

Their failure to win key battles outright without losing so many men

The unwillingness of northern men to serve voluntarily without coercion

The refusal to allow the participation of African American soldiers to the end