Name: ______Date: ______Class: 8A 8B

8th Grade: Unit 7 Exam

Directions: Answer each of the following questions by filling in the blanks. (6 points each)

  1. What two major changes occurred in the 1860 election?
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. What two factors caused many Southerners to leave the Democratic convention?
  5. ______
  6. ______
  7. For each of the following letters identify either the candidate or the political party they were involved with during the 1860 election.
  8. John Bell ______
  9. ______Republican Party
  10. Stephen Douglass ______
  11. John Breckinridge ______
  12. Which state led the South into secession and was the site of the beginning of the Civil War? ______
  13. The Confederacy established their first capital and government in ______
  14. What part of the government did the Confederacy NOT establish and how did this cause a problem for them? ______
  15. Who was Edmund Ruffin and what role did he play in the Civil War? ______
  16. Why did the state of Virginia split into West Virginia and Virginia? ______
  17. Why did the South fear President Lincoln’s anti-expansionist views of slavery? ______
  18. Why did President Lincoln state, “I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky? ______
  19. Southern ideals of what secession entailed sprang from what three main sources?
  20. ______
  21. ______
  22. ______

Directions: Use the words from the word bank to complete each of the following sentences. Not all words will be used. (5 points each)

  1. When ______delivered a Senate address in which he called for moderation and peaceful coexistence with the slave South it opened the door for Abraham Lincoln to become his party’s presidential candidate.
  2. ______attempted to take power from President Lincoln while simultaneously provoking a war with Spain and France to drum up support against the Confederacy.
  3. After the election of Abraham Lincoln Southerners became fearful that his election would soon lead to a black ______who would further destroy slavery in the South.
  4. ______submitted a set of proposals, including four compromises for the South, that were supported by the Committee of Thirteen but were voted down by Congress.
  5. When President Lincoln hesitated to deal with Ft. Sumter ______took 70 troops to the fort in order to protect it against Southern occupation.
  6. In response to the Emancipation Proclamation, ______stated that all black people, regardless of their status as free or slave, should be permanently made slaves to maintain the proper balance between blacks and white.
  7. When the ______arrived to reprovision Ft. Sumter it was chased off by onshore batteries in effect providing an unofficial beginning to the Civil War.
  8. President Lincoln overturned the emancipation edict of ______in order to ensure that he did not lose the border states to the Confederacy.
  9. The Confederate ______prohibited tariffs, subsidies, and most taxation while requiring that all appropriation bills be passed by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.
  10. In President Lincoln’s ______he stated that he sought to resupply Ft. Sumter, that the Union was perpetual and secession was null and void, and offered to take under advisement federal appointees unacceptable to the South.