VUS SOL Review Civil War and Reconstruction

Who won the election of 1860 that led to 7 states seceding?

• George Washington
• Andrew Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson

Which Supreme court case decided that slaves were property and had no right to sue in court

• Plessy v Ferguson
• Dred Scott
• Brown v Board
• Marbury v Madison

what name was given to laws that made African-Americans second class citizens?

• Jim Crow
• Nat Tuner 
• freedmen
• Dred Scott laws

what compromise ended Reconstruction in the South?

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska
• Compromise of 1877 
• Great compromise

The Emancipation Proclamation --

• made abolition of slavery a war goal
• allowed African Americans to serve as soldiers
• freed the slaves in the southern states
• all of the above

The period right after the Civil War was 

• Civil Rights Movement
• The Great Depression
• Reconstruction
• Missouri Compromise 

How did Harriet Beecher Stowe's book -"Uncle Tom's Cabin" influence the debate over slavery?

• showed whites in the south wrong they were
• showed horrors of slavery and expanded the aboloitionist movement
• slaves wanted to know Uncle Tom
• some northerners created Cabins in the woods

Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the North? _________________

• 92% of industry found in the North
• Northern soldiers were motivated to preserve their way of life
  
• 75% of railroads and banking were in the Norththe North had a large navy
  
• the North had a large navy
  

Even though these states had slavery, they did not join the Confederate states.

• Western States
• State of Confusion
• Border States
• Southern States

The North wanted to control the Mississippi River so that

• it could control the movement of trade and goods
  
• it was a natural division to “split the South”
• it was an easier invasion route to the South than by land
• all of the above