Pre-test Civil War

Disagreement over new states being free states or slave states was a cause of the

• Spoils System.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Civil War

• Emancipation Proclamation

Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?

• Zachary Taylor

• Abraham Lincoln

• James K. Polk

• Ulysses S. Grant

The first state to secede from the Union in 1860 was

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Maine

• Ohio

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

• Fort Sumter

• Bunker Hill

• Vicksburg

• Gettysburg

What famous African American abolitionist, speaker and writer could have been captured and returned to slavery?

• Fredrick Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

The law that required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people was the

• Removal Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Runaway Act

• Slave Owners Act

What Supreme Court decision meant that the Constitution protected slavery?

• Missouri-Compromise

• Lincoln-Douglas debate

• the Dred Scott case

• election of 1856

What man's death became a rallying point for abolitionists?

• John Brown

• Stephan A. Douglas

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

The first major battle of the Civil War was at

• Shiloh

• Antietam Creek

• Bull Run (Manassas)

• Richmond

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in a small Virginia village called

• Richmond.

• Appomattox Court House.

• Vicksburg.

• Gettysburg.