Mini-Civil War Test Continued AHI

Why did Southern States decide to secede after the election of 1860?

• Southerners feared Lincoln would force the south out of the Union.

• Southerners feared Lincoln and the North would work to take over the production of cotton.

• Southerners feared Lincoln would try to abolish slavery once in power.

• Southerners were supporters of Robert E. Lee and the 13th Amendment.

What impact did the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin have in American society?

• Northern readers became outraged at the treatment of slaves.

• Northern readers now were in support of the fugitive slave act.

• Southerners were pleased with how they were portrayed in the novel.

• The book caused European nations to commit to helping the Confederacy.

What was the effect of the Dred Scott case? 

• Slaves were not considered US citizens.
• Slaves could not sue and had no rights in court.
• Slaves were legally declared property anywhere in the U.S.
• All of the Above

What machine that turned cotton from a labor-intensive crop that
produced little profit to a cash-crop that would eventually form the basis of Southern Society? 

• Cotton Picker
• Cotton Gin
• Cotton Reaper
• Mechanical Reaper

* California became a free state
* Utah and New Mexico were created and given popular sovereignty
* ended the slave trade in Washington DC
* Forced a stronger Fugitive Slave Law 

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Emancipation Proclamation
• State Taxation

* planned to capture weapons in the US arsenal
* wanted slaves to physically fight for their freedom
* radical abolitionist
* led the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
* caused deaths in Kansas at a raid known as Bleeding Kansas

• Preston Brooks
• John Brown
• Dred Scott
• General Lee

* Kansas and Nebraska joined as a free state
* Erased the Missouri Compromise Line (36* 30* Parallel)
* New territories had popular sovereignty (vote)

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Scott vs Sanford

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• That slavery diminished the national character.
• That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.
• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens and did not have rights...they were "property"
• That slavery should be abolished by executive order

Which statement best describes the causes of the Civil War?

• The North wanted their own slaves

• The south wanted slavery and states' rights

• the south wanted a strong federal government

• The North was angry about Lincoln's death

This state was the site of the first battle of the Civil War and the 1st to secede

• North Carolina
• Georgia
• South Carolina 
• Middle Carolina