Civil War Review 8th Grade

What state entered as a free state as a condition of the Compromise of 1850?

• California

• Maine

• Missouri

• Kansas

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Connie Chung

What favorable issue did the southern states get from the Compromise of 1850?

• popular soverignty

• Fugitive Slave law

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• intro of a slave state

What was the Union plan of attack called?

• Anaconda Plan

• Strike Force One

• Operation Freedom

• Boa Constrictor

What made the border states different from the other states in the Union?

• all of them were the first to claim loyalty to the North

• they were allowed to keep their slaves

• they had state officials in both areas

• nothing, they were the same

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

• Fort Sumter

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Vicksburg

What was the first major battle of the war?

• Fort Sumpter

• 1st Bull Run

• 2nd Bull Run

• Gettysburg

Which battle was the turning point of the war and also the bloodiest battle?

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• Antetam

• Shiloh

Who was the best conductor of the Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Tubman

• Fredrick Douglas

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What was the ruling in the Dred Scott case?

• The Compromise of 1850 should be upheld

• slaves are people not property

• slaves are property and the Comp. of 1850 is unconstitutional

• there was a hung jury, no decision was made