Civil War Quiz

Abolition-

• The belief of expanding slavery

• Movement to end slavery

• Movement to spread slavery to the west

• Abraham Lincoln speech

Emancipation-

• Enslaved people coming to the US

• Abraham Lincoln speech

• Movement to end slavery

• Freeing from slavery

Popular Sovereignty-

• Slaves becoming citizens

• People electing representatives

• People participating in voting

• Personal freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights

Succession-

• To group together to create a new nation

• To leave; in this case to the leave the United States

• To create a new government

• Creating treaties to end a war

Northern economic system-

• Manufacturing, factories, many abolitionists

• Large slave plantations, cotton gin usage, participation in slave trade

• Manufacturing cotton and large slave plantations

• Low cost land, and large slave plantations

Southern economic system-

• Large plantations, large slave population, cotton gin

• Manufacturing, factories, abolitionists

• Cotton gin, manufacturing

• Westward slavery movement, large plantation system, cheap land

The most important crop grown and sold in the South-

• Tobacco

• Cotton

• Textiles

• Lumber

General of the Confederate Army-

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Frederick Douglass

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

Under the Compromise of 1850, which state was admitted to the Union as a free state?

• California

• Texas

• Virginia

• South Carolina

According to the ruling of Dred Scott v Sanford, were African Americans citizens?

• No

• Yes