Civil War 1st and 7th

What was the main objective of the Anaconda plan?

• to attack and bring under control a few Southern Cities

• to disrupt Southern supply lines by controlling the railroad junctions in the South

• to sign treaties with Britain and France to prevent them from assisting the South

• to suffocate the South by controlling the Mississippi River and the Southern ports

Congress added California as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave Laws?

• Bleeding Kansas
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850

The term means that people in the state would VOTE to make decisions about being a free state or a slave state.

• independent choice
• popular sovereignty
• popular election

North Captured this stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River

• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg
• Fort Sumter
• Antietam

What did the Dred Scott decision say?

• It considered slaves to be property without rights.
• It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states
• It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states
• It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens

This Kansas-Nebraska Act said that slavery in Kansas and Nebraska would be decided by vote. It lead to lots of violence. What was this called?

• popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

What was considered the turning point battle of the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter

• Vicksburg

• Gettysburg

• Fort Wagner

The Emancipation Proclamation

• made slavery legal

• began slavery

• ended slavery in the Confederate states

• ended slavery only in the North

The OFFICIAL names of the two sides who fought during the civil war were

• North and South

• Union and South

• Union and Confederacy

• Confederacy and United States

Which section of the US felt more strongly in favor of states’ rights?

• North
• South
• Border states