Civil War Test Review

to withdraw from a group

• sectionalism

• antebellum

• divided

• secede

Which amendment is about state's rights (some things are left up to the states to decide: education, gay marriage rights)

• 10th

• 9th

• 8th

• 1st

How did sectionalism lead to the Civil War?

• North and South were divided over the issues of education

• North and South were divided over the issue of slavery due to different cultures

• Mexico and America couldn't come to a compromise over what the border should be

• Lincoln forbid slavery in the southern states in 1850

power is divided between the states, national government, and the people

• federalism

• popular sovereginty

• separation of powers

• spoils system

Before the Civil War broke out, which area of the United States had more industries (factories) and was more urbanized?

• West

• Canada

• Northeast

• South

What was the most valuable cash crop of the South in the 1860s?

• tobacco

• corn

• indigo

• cotton

Which of the following was not true about the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• Was a compromise over the issue of slavery

• split the country in half over the issue of slavery

• Missouri became a slave state, Maine became a free state

• the people voted on whether to be a slave or free state

Which of the following is NOT true about the Compromise of 1850?

• Strong Fugitive Slave Act- bring back escaped slaves to the South

• directly led to the outbreak of the Civil War

• Slave trade was abolished (stopped) in Washington DC

• California became a free state

What was the reaction to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

• Tariffs became a national issue

• intensified northern dislike for slavery

• it made more people open to the idea of slavery

• led to more slave revolts in the south

Who was the man that led a Slave Revolt in the 1830s? It only lasted for a couple days, and led to more restrictions on slaves in the South.

• Harriet Tubman

• Abe Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Nat Turner