Deck 6: The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 1

The Emancipation Proclamation applied to states ________ at the time it was promulgated.

A) under occupation
B) loyal to the Union
C) in rebellion
D) with African Americans in slavery

Answer 1

C

Question 2

A weakness of the Emancipation Proclamation was that it ________.

A) applied to such a small area
B) covered areas where African Americans were already free
C) was unenforceable where it applied unless the Union army was present
D) fell short of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The final Emancipation Proclamation reflected Lincoln's change of heart concerning ________.

A) emancipation in the Union
B) conciliating slave owners
C) colonization
D) reuniting the divided US

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Under the Emancipation Proclamation blacks would be ________ the Union armed forces.

A) welcomed into
B) allowed for the first time
C) later permitted to join
D) conscripted into

Question 5

In "Reading the Emancipation Proclamation" the figure standing on a chair recalls what modern monument?

A) Mount Rushmore
B) the Lincoln Memorial
C) the Statue of Liberty
D) the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Question 6

Copies of the Emancipation Proclamation were distributed in the South by ________.

A) missionaries
B) female hospital workers
C) Union soldiers
D) spies

Question 7

Which of these was guaranteed to freed slaves by the Emancipation Proclamation?

A) compensation
B) protection from re-enslavement
C) material aid
D) resettlement grants

Question 8

Figure 6.2 (in the text) would probably have recalled for Union viewers the biblical story of ________.

A) enslavement of the Hebrews
B) the Ten Commandments
C) Pharaoh's oppression
D) flight from Egypt

Question 9

Broadly the Emancipation Proclamation had a(n) ________ impact on slavery.

A) potent
B) direct but insignificant
C) minimal and gradual
D) indirect

Question 10

The military governor of Tennessee in 1863 was ________.

A) Jefferson Davis
B) Ulysses Grant
C) Andrew Johnson
D) Winfield Scott

Question 11

Which of these modern states were the largest Confederate areas exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation?

A) Kentucky and Tennessee
B) Tennessee and West Virginia
C) Kentucky and Louisiana
D) Louisiana and West Virginia

Question 12

Which of these was a catalyst to the massive recruitment of African Americans in Tennessee?

A) the state's status as a border state
B) Andrew Johnson's leadership
C) the states position on the Mississippi
D) the strong plantation economy in the state

Question 13

Which of these was the site of the earliest attempts at Reconstruction?

A) New Orleans
B) Tennessee
C) Richmond
D) the Sea Islands

Question 14

Who of these was a notable former slave who worked as a nurse and teacher?

A) Susie King Taylor
B) Charlotte Forten
C) Harriet Beecher Stowe
D) Harriet Jacobs

Question 15

The promulgation of the Emancipation Proclamation had a strong impact on the Sea Islands because African Americans there ________.

A) could now leave their plantations
B) hoped to join the Union army
C) were now guaranteed their freedom
D) became free

Question 16

Figure 6.4(in the text) illustrates the strong ________ theme at the Camp Saxton celebration.

A) pro-Confederate
B) patriotic
C) legal
D) religious

Question 17

In general, African Americans in the North were ________ the Emancipation Proclamation's provisions.

A) incensed over
B) overjoyed about
C) suspicious of
D) dissatisfied with

Question 18

The Emancipation Proclamation had the impact of ________ British recognition of the Confederacy.

A) making less likely
B) hastening
C) bringing into question
D) closing the possibility of

Question 19

Copperheads distinguished themselves from other Northern political groups in their overt ________.

A) patriotism
B) belief in deliverance
C) criticism of the war
D) racism

Question 20

In 1863 the Missouri legislature ________ emancipation.

A) moved towards
B) rejected
C) embraced
D) moved away from

Question 21

Which of these best expresses the positives of the Emancipation Proclamation for Union soldiers?

A) It would weaken the Confederacy.
B) It ended any hope that Confederacy would be helped by Britain.
C) It would bring them reinforcements and a new sense of the right of their cause.
D) It ended the uncertainty of the Union stance.

Question 22

Looking at Map 6.2, which of these explains the concentration of contraband camps in the western theater?

A) the Mississippi River as a route
B) the status of the border states as sanctuaries
C) West Virginia's admission to the Union
D) the importance of Mississippi to the Confederate cause

Question 23

The Emancipation Proclamation ________ the movement of "contrabands" into the Union or Union-controlled areas.

A) initiated
B) slowed
C) greatly accelerated
D) nearly stopped

Question 24

The image "Tracks of the Armies" emphasizes the impact of the war on ________ Confederates.

A) slaveholding
B) poor
C) elite
D) ordinary

Question 25

For most slaves in the Confederacy escape from slavery was ________ even after the Emancipation Proclamation.

A) difficult to achieve
B) tempting enough for them to risk punishment
C) relatively easy
D) of little interest