2nd Period Slavery, States Rights, & Civil War

Texas entered the Union as a slave state in

• 1835.

• 1840.

• 1845.

• 1850.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Made the Kansas and Nebraska Territories free states.

• Made the Kansas and Nebraska Territories slave states.

• Allowed the Kansas and Nebraska Territories to decide whether to be slave or free states.

• Stated that Kansas and Nebraska could not join the Union until slavery was eliminated in the United States.

Which of the following was the first state to secede from the Union?

• Texas

• South Carolina

• Louisiana

• Alabama

The seceding states formed a government known as the

• United Confederates of America.

• New States of the Confederacy.

• Reformed States of the Confederacy.

• Confederate States of America.

The Confederate constitution outlawed slavery in the United States.

• True

• False

Without firing a shot, the Texas ________________________ captured more than $1 million in military supplies.

• Militia

• Gettysburg

• Great Britain

• Mississippi River

The South used cotton diplomacy to try to gain foreign support from ____________________________________.

• Great Britain

• Militia

• Mississippi River

• Gettysburg

The North planned to take control of the ______________________________ and cut the Confederacy in two.

• Militia

• Gettysburg

• Mississippi River

• Great Britain

The Battle of ________________________________ was a turning point because it put Lee on the defensive for the rest of the war.

• Gettysburg

• Militia

• Great Britain

• Mississippi River

A civil war is a war between opposing groups within the same country.

• True

• False