Civil War CFA

The Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act attempted to address this issue...

• The balance of slave and free states in Congress.
• The end of slavery.
• Establishing borders between states.
• Right of the South to leave the Union (secede).

Why was the Underground Railroad important?

• It carried many products from the North to the South.
• It led to the end of slavery.
• It was the route used by slaves escaping from the South
• It carried settlers west.

What made cotton so productive that many southern farmers began growing cotton and cotton production spread and increased rapidly?

• telegraph
• interchangeable parts
• cotton gin
• cotton plow

What major event finally caused the South to leave the Union?

• Dred Scott Case
• Election of Abraham Lincoln
• Harpers Ferry Raid
• Publication of the Uncle Tom's Cabin

What pro-slavery event ruled that slaves were property and not citizens?

• Wilmot Proviso
• Free-Soil Party
• Dred Scott Decision
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

What was Lincoln's main focus in the beginning of the Civil War?

• to abolish slavery
• to end British control of the Western territories
• to make the Southern economy not dependent on cotton 
• to preserve the Union

What speech begins with...
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

• Gettysburg Address
• George Washington Farewell Address
• Frederick Douglass' 4th of July of Speech
• House Divided Speech

Following the Battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln issued the _________ which called for all Confederate slaves to be freed.

• 13th Amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Bill of Rights
• Gettysburg Address

Two main figures of the Civil War were Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. What was their significance? 

• Both were Northern congressmen who fought for the abolition of slavery. 
• Both were Underground Railroad conductors.
• Both were Civil War generals.
• Both were Confederate plantation owners who funded the Southern cause.

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

• John Wilkes Booth
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• James Earl Ray
• John Hinckley