Topic 1 ~ Civil War and Reconstruction

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

The place where Confederate cannons opened fire thus starting the Civil War

• Sherman's March to Sea
• Gettysburg
• Atlanta Campaign
• Fort Sumter

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

Which of the following terms is defined as "when citizens of a territory vote to allow or ban slavery."

• popular sovereignty
• tariff of abominations
• impressment
• right of habeus corpus

Which law, passed in 1854, stated that each territory could decide for itself whether slavery was legal?

• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the Great Compromise

• the Missouri Compromise

• The North and South Compromise

Loyalty to a part of a nation, but not the entire nation as a whole is

• sectionalism

• Stereotyping

• nationalism

• slavery

First state to secede from the U.S.

• South Carolina

• Rhode Island

• Massachusetts

• New Jersey

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 received the greatest support from southern farmers?

• the passage of a strict fugitive slave law

• the admission of California as a free state

• the end of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• the allowance of popular sovereignty in new territories

Which Southern industry required the most slave labor during the early nineteenth century?

• cotton farming

• textile manufacturing

• firearm manufacturing

• dairy farming

Which law, passed in 1854, stated that each territory could decide for itself whether slavery was legal?

• the Great Compromise

• the Missouri Compromise

• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the Wilmot Proviso