Civil War Unit 8

Who would have said this and at what event? "The Confederates were our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall?

• Lincoln at the Gettysburg Cemetery
• General Lee at the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
• General Grant at the surrender of Appomattox Courthouse
• Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

How were the Compromises of 1820 and Compromise of 1850 alike?

• They were supposed to decrease the political divisions within the US
• They were both developed by John C Calhoun and Daniel Webster
• The prevented the spread of tariffs to the west
• The strengthened US economic unity

Why was the battle of Vicksburg important?

• It gave the South control of the Mississippi River
• It gave the Union control of the MississippiRiver
• The Confederacy delayed the Union advance in the South
• General Lee's army trapped the Union forces and won

Why did the slave population increase at the same time cotton production increased?

• More grain farms meant they needed more slaves to work on them.
• More cotton increased the need for more slaves to work
• Cotton production and the growth of the slave production were unrelated
• The invention of the cotton gin led to a decline in the demand for slave labor to clean raw cotton.

Which of these were NOT about state's rights?

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Monroe Doctrine
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which battle was the bloodiest day in the American Civil War?

• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Vicksburg
• Appomattox Courthouse

Which legal case had the following quote? "We think they (people of African ancestry) are...not included under the word "citizen" in the Constitution."

• Dred Scott v. Sanford
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Marbury v. Madison
• Worcester v. Georgia

Uncle Tom's Cabin supported which group of people?

• Plantation Owners
• Abolitionists
• War Hawks
• Nationalists

Who would have said this?  "The Union next to our liberties is most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of states."

• Stephen Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
• John C. Calhoun
• Henry Clay

Which of these statements is not a cause of the Civil War?

• States' Rights
• Strategies for War
• Slavery
• Election of Lincoln