Civil War Regents Prep

Which group benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?

• abolitionists

• immigrants

• slave owners

• enslaved people

Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the

• ratification of the Constitution of the United States

• approval of the Republican Party platform of 1860

• issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• adoption of the 13th amendment to the Constitution

One result of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory (1803) was that the United States

• acquired California from Spain

• gained control of the port of New Orleans

• ended border conflicts with British Canada

• annexed Florida

The Civil War affected the northern economy by

• causing a severe depression

• increasing unemployment rates

• decreasing demand for agricultural products

• stimulating industrialization

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and Native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the West

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

Which term did Americans use in the 1840s to describe the idea that the United States should possess the entire continent?

• containment

• manifest destiny

• globalization

• popular sovereignty

Which term refers to the idea that settlers had the right to decide whether slavery would be legal in their territory?

• nullification

• sectionalism

• popular sovereignty

• southern secession

The Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was significant because it

• allowed slavery in California

• outlawed slavery in the Southern States

• upheld the actions of the Underground Railroad

• ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories

Throughout the Civil War, an important advantage the North had over the South was that the North

• had superior military leaders

• had greater manufacturing capabilities

• received support from Great Britain and France

• used a strategy for fighting a defensive war

Climatic conditions in the southern colonies most directly influenced the development of

• democratic institutions

• a canal system

• the plantation system

• the coal industry