Civil War Causes and Vocabulary

People who worked to end slavery were called: (a)  

• abolitionists
• southerners
• cartridges
• blockades

To withdraw from something, such as a nation (a)  

• states' rights
• secede
• abolitionist
• amendment

When was the Civil War? (a)  

• 1861- 1876
• 1861-1865
• 1870-1876
• 2015-2019

This was the main economy of the Confederacy (a)  

• Agriculture
• Industy
• Shipping
• Trade

This was the main economy of the Union (a)  

• Agriculture
• Industry
• Shipping
• Trade

Even though these were states where slavery was legal, they did not secede and join the Confederate states. Instead, they were slave slates that remained loyal to the Union. (a)  

• Western States
• State of Confusion
• Border States
• Southern States

This freed the slaves in Confederate states. (a)  

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Gettysburg Address 
• The Battle of Antietam 
• The Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country? (a)  

• Sectionalism
• Nationalism
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession

In the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, the Supreme Court...

(a)  

Kansas earned this nickname as a result of the violence that broke out over disagreements for the expansion of slavery. (a)  

• Pottowatomie massacre
• The Jayhawk State
• Bleeding Kansas
• The mob state