2019 Civil War Review #3

The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Dred Scott decision 

• angered northerners because it allowed people to decide about slavery through popular sovereignty
• angered northerners because it allowed the spread of slavery 
• calmed northerners because it allowed people to decide about slavery through popular sovereignty
• calmed northerners because it allowed the spread of slavery 

The idea that a state could nullify (cancel) a law led to what other idea about state’s rights?

• Secession
• Abolition
• Sectionalism
• Protective Tariffs

This Amendment holds that, "No Citizen shall be denied the right to vote based on race color or previous condition of servitude." (VOTE)

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

As Lincoln took office his top priority was:

• Ending Slavery
• Preserving the Union
• Expanding the Confderacy
• Expanding exports to France

The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to

• prevent slaves from having group gatherings or meetings.
• prevent slaves from testifying against whites in court trials.
• require slaves that had run away to go back to their owners.
• require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to obtain jobs.

What piece of legislation allowed California to join the Union as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• MIssouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

The Battle of Vicksburg was important in the Civil War because it --

• allowed the Confederate army to seize Washington D.C.
• broke the Union blockade along the Gulf of Mexico
• enabled the Confederate army to seek French assistance
• gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River

What was the most important advantage the North had during the Civil War?

• unified popular support for the war effort
• superior military leadership
• economic aid from Great Britain and France
• greater human and economic resources

What advantage did the South have the North during the Civil War?

• greater manufacturing
• more effective navy
• better government
• more capable military leaders

Which newspaper headline might have appeared during the Civil War (1861-1865)?

• "John Brown captured in raid on Harpers Ferry"

• Supreme Court issues Dred Scott Decision"

• "Lincoln ends slavery in rebellion states."

• "Former slaves given the right to vote."