Civil War Quiz Summative

The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865. What is a civil war?

• a war against a foreign invader

• a war between people of the same country

• a war fought only by professional soldiers

• a war fought with words, not weapons

The American Civil War was fought between two sides, the Union and the Confederacy. Use the map to answer the question below.

The Confederacy is made up of a group of _______ states

• Western

• Northern

• Southern

According to the map above, which of the following statements are true? Select all that apply.

• Lincoln won many states in the South.

• Lincoln won a majority of electoral votes.

• Lincoln did not win any states in the Northwest.

• Lincoln won a majority of the popular vote.

Months after Lincoln's election, 7 Southern states seceded, or withdrew, from the United States.

This is part of a speech given by Alexander Hamilton Handy, a Mississippi judge who supported secession. Use the passage to answer the question below.

"The first act of the black Republican Party will be to

exclude slavery from all the territories [and] from the

District of Columbia...The moment that slavery is pronounced a moral evil—a sin- by the general government, that moment the safety of the

rights of the South will be entirely gone."

Secessionists like Alexander worried that the Republican Party would pass laws that would ________________.

• establish an official church of the South

• endanger or hurt slavery in the South

• protect slavery in the territories

• change the capital city of the United States

How did the differences between the southern and northern economies lead to the Civil War?

• The northern states economy depended on farming, needed slave labor and wanted slavery to continue

• The southern states economy depended on farming and wanted slave labor to end

• The northern states economy depended on industry or factories and wanted slavery to continue

• The southern states economy depended on farming and wanted slave labor to continue

The southern states felt the federal government was taking away their rights and had too much power.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The problem surrounding the United States expanding or getting larger was

• Whether or not the new state would be a free state or a slave state

• Whether or not there was enough room for the new population

• Whether or not the new states would allow new comers

To make both northern and southern states happy, there were

• arguments

• fighting

• compromises

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 helped solved the problem somewhat by

• Declaring no more slave states be added to the United States

• Creating a balance of free and slave states

• Declaring no more free states be added to the United States

• Creating an imbalance of free and slave states

States north of the Missouri line 36/ 30 will be free states and states south of the line will be slave states. This compromise was known as

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Missouri Compromise 1850

• Dred Scott Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas Compromise