Civil War Quiz

When did the Civil War occur?

• 1850-1854

• 1861-1865

• 1872-1876

• 1883-1887

How was the pre-Civil War South economically different from the North?

• The South had a large immigrant population.

• The South was more industrialized.

• The South had many textile factories.

• The South was an agricultural economy.

Which of the following best explains the dependence of the Southern economy on slavery?

• Immigrants who opposed slavery did not settle in the South.

• The Southern economy was rural and consisted mostly of plantations.

• The South needed slave labor to support its manufacturing economy.

• Enslaved Africans were well suited to working in the hot Southern climate.

Plan of 5 separate laws proposed by Henry Clay seeking a middle ground on the slavery debate

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

• Compromise of 1820

Ordered all citizens of the U.S. to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their masters

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Freeman’s Act

• Townsend Act

Letting the people in a territory decide whether to allow slavery there

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Townsend Act

Nickname given to territory in which the burning of Lawerence, Kansas to the ground and John Brown’s brutal response sparked murderous raids

• Oregon Trail

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Alamo

• Lower South

Led an attack on the federal arsenal to give slaves so they could rebel

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Denmark Vesey

• Gabriel Prosser

Name given to the new nation created by those states that seceded from the Union following Lincoln’s election in 1860.

• Upper South

• Whoville

• Confederate States of America

• Murderous Rebels

The Civil War began when this military fort in the waters outside of Charleston, S.C. was attacked by Confederate troops

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Monroe

• Fort Bragg

• Fort Jackson