Civil War Unit

What compromise allowed people in Kansas to choose if they wanted to have slavery or not?

• Great Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Why is slavery expanding in the south and not the north?

• The north did not have the machines of the south to keep up
• Geographic conditions were favorable for the south and not the north
• The south had more railroads
• The north had more telegraph lines 

This compromise in 1820 divided the nation into slave and free states

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Indian Removal Act

Who was the general for the Union that defeated Lee?

• Stonewall Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Frederick Douglass

Who was president of the Confederacy?

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• Jefferson Davis

Which battle was the first major battle of the Civil War?

• First Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Attack on Fort Sumter

• Battle of Gettysburg

Which battle was a turning point of the war for the Union?

• First Battle of Bull Run

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Battle of Gettysburg

What did the Emancipation Proclamation change the focus of the war to?

• Keeping the Union together

• Forcing the Confederacy to surrender

• Freeing slaves

• Making every city have a urban society

A. Increased the size of the army without congressional authorization

B. Arrested and jailed anti-Unionists without giving reason

C. Censored some anti-Union newspapers and had some editors and publishers arrested

The action taken in statement B is also known as

• The Fugitive Slave Law

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Anaconda Plan

• The suspension of habeas corpus

. . . And now to the point. In our opinion, an opinion which has been formed from data obtained by assiduous [thorough] researches, and comparisons, from laborious investigation, logical reasoning, and earnest reflection, the causes which have impeded the progress and prosperity of the South, which have dwindled our commerce, and other similar pursuits, into the most contemptible insignificance; sunk a large majority of our people in galling poverty and ignorance, rendered a small minority conceited and tyrannical, and driven the rest away from their homes; entailed upon us a humiliating dependence on the Free States; disgrace us in the recesses of our own souls, and brought us under reproach in the eyes of all civilians and enlightened nations-may all be traced to one common source, and there find solution in the most hateful and horrible word, that was ever incorporated into the vocabulary of human economy ---Slavery! ...

- Hinton Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South: How To Meet It, 1857

This statement most clearly expresses the author's opinion that slavery

• should be extended into the western territories

• caused the North to be dependent on the South

• was the cause of economic and social problems in the South

• was the reason the South should secede from the Union