Civil War Vocabulary

In 1854, knowing that white southerners didn’t want to add another free state to the Union, Senator Stephen Douglas proposed what act that would allow the citizens of the states to decide the issue of slavery?

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, how would these new states decide the issue of slavery?

• Treason

• Popular sovereignty

• Habeas Corpus

• Siege

After Lincoln was elected president, what did South Carolina and 6 other states do?

• Civil War

• Acquiescence

• Secede

• Monitor

Which is known as the bloodiest battle in the Civil War?

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Shiloh

• Battle of Fredericksburg

What act was passed by Congress that said slavery was permitted in the part of the Louisiana Purchase south of the imaginary line drawn at the southern border of Missouri, and banned north of this line?

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Missouri Compromise

In his first inaugural speech, what did President Lincoln say that government required Southern states to do whether they agreed with those laws or not?

• Acquiescence

• Draft

• Treason

• Secede

In what speech did Lincoln free enslaved African Americans in Confederate-held territory?

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Missouri Compromise

• Appomattox Court House

In which of the following did the Supreme Court decide that enslaved persons were considered property and could not file lawsuits?

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Gettysburg Address

As the war went on, both the North and the South needed money to support their effort. How did they get this money from the people?

• Income Tax

• Inflation

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Guerrilla warfare

What was Daniel Webster afraid would happen if California was admitted to the Union as a free state?

• Secede

• Treason

• Civil War

• Acquiescence