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DSST Civil War and Reconstruction - Question List

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21.

Which of the following is NOT true of the role of women in the abolitionist?

  1. It was criticized for drawing women away from domestic duties.
  2. It drew additional attention to the women's rights movement.
  3. Social norms prohibited women from speaking in public.
  4. Some abolitionists believed women should not hold office in abolitionist organizations.
  5. Free women were not allowed to be in the company of female slaves.
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22.

Which of the following was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

  1. To help emancipated slaves negotiate employment contracts with landowners, as well as find food, housing, health care, and education
  2. To help slaves become free
  3. To help freed slaves immigrate to Africa
  4. To employ emancipated slaves
  5. To enlist slaves in the Union Army, thereby freeing them
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23. The Free Soil Party formed in 1848 in response to which of the following?
  1. The Nullification Crisis
  2. The Gold Rush
  3. The Mexican-American War
  4. The passing of Missouri Compromise
  5. The failure of the Wilmot Proviso
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24. All of the following statements about the Emancipation Proclamation are true EXCEPT:
  1. It freed the slaves in the Confederacy.
  2. It maintained slavery in the border states.
  3. Lincoln wrote it as soon as he entered the White House.
  4. It influenced England's willingness to support the South.
  5. It was a response to declining abolitionist support.
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25. Which of the following strategies employed by the North at the end of the Civil War heightened Southern animosity?
  1. The use of canons and other long-distance artillery
  2. The total war tactics practiced in Sherman's March to the Sea
  3. The conditions at Andersonville Prison
  4. Lincoln's efforts to negotiate a peaceful restoration of the South
  5. The use of ironclad ships
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