Civil War #1

The Fort that was surrounded by Confederate forces in South Carolina that started the Civil War?

• West Point
• Shiloh
• Sumter
• Chattanooga

Which of the following was a state found in the SOUTH?

• Indiana
• Oregon
• Texas
• Pennsylvania

Harriet Beecher Stowe was said to be the "lady who started the Civil War." Why was her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, so successful?

• It used religion to support the continuation of slavery.
• It used female characters to support women's suffrage.
• It used female characters to support southern secession.
• It used religion to support the end of slavery.

Which of the following ruled that it was unconstitutional to place a ban on slavery. 

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850 
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

What event took place in response to the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• Dred Scott Rebellion
• Bleeding Kansas
• John Brown's Raid

An arsenal where John Brown began and ended his plan to create a slave revolt in the South in 1859

• Ferryland
• Harpers Ferry
• Seneca Falls
• Washington D.C.

allowed the federal government to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, even in free states

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• The Declaration of Sentiments
• Harper's Ferry

Kentucky senator who forged the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 between the North and South over the issue of slavery

• John C. Calhoun
• Henry Clay
• Abraham Lincoln
• WIlliam Lloyd Garrison

An enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state  

• Roger B. Taney
• Dred Scott
• Stephen Douglass
  John Brown
• Stephen Douglas

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Preston Brooks