Test Questions & Answers The Emancipation Proclamation Ch.6

Chapter 6: The Emancipation Proclamation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 1

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

a. under occupation

b. loyal to the Union

c. in rebellion

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Title: Chapter 6, Question 2

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

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 3

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

a. emancipation in the Union

b. conciliating slave owners

d. reuniting the divided US

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 4

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

a. welcomed into

c. later permitted to join

d. conscripted into

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 5

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

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 6

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

a. missionaries

b. female hospital workers

c. Union soldiers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 7

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

a. compensation

b. protection from re-enslavement

d. resettlement grants

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 8

8) Figure 6.2 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

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 9

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

a. potent

c. minimal and gradual

d. indirect

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 10

10) The military governor of Tennessee in 1863 was ________.

a. Jefferson Davis

b. Ulysses Grant

c. Andrew Johnson

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 11

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

d. Louisiana and West Virginia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 12

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

d. the strong plantation economy in the state

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Title: Chapter 6, Question 13

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

a. New Orleans

b. Tennessee

c. Richmond

d. the Sea Islands

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 14

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

a. Susie King Taylor

c. Harriet Beecher Stowe

d. Harriet Jacobs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 15

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

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 16

16) Figure 6.4 illustrates the strong ________ theme at the Camp Saxton celebration.

a. pro-Confederate

b. patriotic

d. religious

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Title: Chapter 6, Question 17

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

a. incensed over

b. overjoyed about

d. dissatisfied with

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 18

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

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 19

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

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 20

20) In 1863 the Missouri legislature ________ emancipation.

a. moved towards

c. embraced

d. moved away from

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 21

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.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 22

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

c. West Virginia's admission to the Union

d. the importance of Mississippi to the Confederate cause

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 23

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

a. initiated

b. slowed

c. greatly accelerated

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 24

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

a. slaveholding

b. poor

c. elite

d. ordinary

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6, Question 25

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

a. difficult to achieve

c. relatively easy

d. of little interest