American History | Unit 6 | Civil War

What was the Battle that started the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Shiloh

• Battle of Sharpsburg

A term used in the mid - 1800 to refer to the idea that each territory could decide for itself wether or not to allow slavery

• Blockade

• Popular Sovereignty

• Abraham Lincoln

• Anaconda Plan

A prominent Union general during the Civil War and commanding Union general by the end of the war. Later served as the 18th President of the United States.

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses E. Grant

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

What is the Anaconda Plan?

• The Union Army's plan for defeating the Confederacy by blockading its ports, capturing the Mississippi River, and seizing Richmond.

• The Confederacy's plan to defeat the Union and capture the White House.

• Release anacondas everywhere

• Do nothing

What political party established in 1854 that was against slavery?

• Know Nothing Party

• The Democrats

• The Donkey Party

• The Republican Party

An 1857 Supreme Court case that into question the federal power over slavery in the territories.

• Dred Scott V. Sanford

• West V. Barnes

• Blockade

• Robert E. Lee

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An agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free states and a strict fugitive salve law was passed.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1776

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1852

What is the meaning of secede?

• To succeed at something

• To not withdraw from membership in a group

• To withdraw from membership or a group.

• To go to college

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An 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended in a Union victory and stopped the Confederate invasion of the North.

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Shiloh

• Battle of Sharpsburg

• Battle of Gettysburg

Who was Robert E. Lee

• A general who led the Confederate Army

• A merchant

• A general who didn't lead the Confederate Army

• A general who led the Union Army