Unit 4 Review (SSUSH8, SSUSH9, SSUSH10, SSUSH13c)

Front

What advantages did the Union have over the Confederacy?

Back

More people, more factories and food, more railroads

Front

Why was the surrender at Vicksburg crucial to the success of the Union campaign in the West?

Back

It allowed the Union to control the Mississippi River

Front

This 1857 ruling declared slaves are property and not citizens therefore they had no rights.

Back

Dred Scott v Sandford

Front

What battle was the single, bloodiest day in the Civil War?

Back

Antietam

Front

Which provision was NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850? Options: California admitted as a slave state, Fugitive Slave Act, End of slave auctions and sale in D.C., Popular sovereignty for the Utah and New Mexico territories

Back

California admitted as a slave state

Answer explanation

California had submitted its Constitution designating it as a free state prior to the Compromise.

Front

What was Douglas's solution that would allow the people in the territories to determine whether they would be slave or free?

Back

Popular Sovereignty

Answer explanation

Popular Sovereignty - people living in a territory should be free from federal interference in determining domestic policy, especially with respect to slavery.

Front

As the Civil War began, the South had the advantage of...

Back

superior military leadership

Front

The Emancipation Proclamation

Back

ended slavery in the Confederate states

Front

What does secession mean?

Back

to leave

Front

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation actually freed?

Back

Only the slaves in the Confederacy, so none of them