Practice Test

Question 1

What sparked a riot in New York City in 1863?

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D: a draft that was unfair to the lower classes

Question 2

The Battle of Vicksburg was significant because

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C: the South lost control of the Mississippi River.

Question 3

The outcome of the Second Battle of Bull Run

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A: placed the capital city Washington, DC, in danger.

Question 4

At the first Democratic Party convention of 1860, fifty Southern delegates

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C: refused to vote and left the convention.

Question 5

During the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln

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D: did not win the support of any Southern states.

Question 6

The 1871 Civil Rights Act gave the US president the power to

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C: suspend habeas corpus.

Question 7

Abraham Lincoln first ran as a Republican in

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D: the 1858 Senate election.

Question 8

The Emancipation Proclamation freed

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D: enslaved people in the South but not those in border states.

Question 9

As the Civil War progressed, women in both the North and the South

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D: took over men’s jobs and supported the war effort.

Question 10

Why did Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

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C: to outline the rights granted to all male citizens of the United States

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