H5 Civil War Review

What term best describes the following

description? “Southerners’ belief that

states should have higher authority than the

federal government”

• National rights

• Confederate rights

• States’ rights

• Popular sovereignty

Which law, which greatly angered Abolitionists, made helping runaway slaves in the North illegal?

• Nebraska Act

• Underground Railroad Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

Which Supreme Court ruling declared slaves were not citizens?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Grant v. Lee Decision

• Dred Scott Decision

Shortly after Lincoln was elected, what did 11 southern states, starting with South Carolina, do?

• Seceded from the Union

• Rewrote the Constitution

• Abolished slavery

• Called for a new election

This is considered to be the first fighting that took place during the Civil War

• Battle of Gettysburg

• John Brown seizing Harper's Ferry

• Attack on Fort Sumter

• the Monitor vs the Merrimack

What was the name taken by the 11 southern states that seceded?

• Union

• Confederacy

• Cotton Kingdom

• Border States

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

• Jeffereson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Andrew Johnson

• Stonewall Jackson

What did Lincoln issue to free the slaves in 11 Confederate States?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Free Em All Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

Who were the two main generals of each side, who signed the letter of surrender at Appomattox?

• Lincoln & Davis

• Sherman & Jackson

• Grant & Lee

• Washington & Cornwallis

The South was known for

• urbanization

• slavery

• fishing

• poor land for farming