Civil War and Reconstruction SS8H5

Name the 3 causes of the Civil War

• Slavery, States Rights, Nullification
• Nullification, States rights, and People
• Slavery, Federal Rights, Nullification

The most controversial issue dividing northerners and southerners during the 1800s was the issue of _____?

• Slavery
• States rights
• Nullification

Republican candidate and victor in the election of 1860

• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge
• Abraham Lincoln

Supreme Court decision ruling that since slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court

• Homer Plessy
• Dred Scott
• Worchester vs. GA

The idea that a state can declare a federal law invaid within its borders

• tariff
• regionalism
• abolitionists
• nullification

What compromise established a strict fugitive slave law?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What did the Emancipation Proclamation state?

• All States were free
• Only slaves in the Confederate states were free
• Slaves were only allowed in Northern States

After the March to the Sea, Sherman presented Lincoln with what as a Christmas gift?

• Saddle for his horse
• Savannah, GA
• Railroad tie

What was one of the largest Confederate prisoner of war camps?

• Andersonville
• Savannah
• Gettysburg

8. What was the first official conflict of the civil war?

• Battle of Chickamauga

• Bombing of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Bull Run

• Antietam