Missouri and the Civil War

Choose the correct definition for Civil War.

• To leave

• States that stayed in the United States

• War between people of the same country.

• States that left the United States

Choose the correct definition for secede.

• To leave

• States that stayed in the United States

• War between people of the same country.

• To stay

Choose the correct definition for Confederate States.

• To leave

• States that stayed in the United States

• War between people of the same country

• States that left the United States

Choose the correct definition for Union States.

• To leave

• States that stayed in the United States

• War between people in the same country

• States that left the United States

Which statement is NOT true about the Missouri Compromise?

• Missouri entered the United States as a slave state.

• Slave states were not allowed south of Missouri.

• Maine entered the United States as a free state.

• The United States wanted a balance of slave states and free states.

What does the term "border state" mean during the Civil War?

• Free states that joined the Confederacy

• Slave states that stayed in the Union.

• States located between Union (north) and Confederate (south) states.

• States located in the south.

What was Missouri's role in the Civil War?

• Missourians all fought for the Confederacy.

• Missourians all fought for the Union.

• Some Missourians fought for the Union and some fought for the Confederacy.

• Missouri had no role in the Civil War.

What were the common ways people at home learned about the Civil War?

• Newspapers, internet, text messages, letters

• Newspapers, telegraph, telephone, television

• Newspapers, letters, telephone, television

• Newspapers, telegraph, letters, photographs

What types of transportation were most common during the Civil War?

• Railroads, horses, steamboats

• Planes, trains, automobiles

• Plains, steamboats, automobiles

• Railroads, automobiles, horses

There were many consequences of the Civil War. Which of the following was an impact on education?

• Pony Express

• Expansion of railroads

• Black children could now go to school.

• Black children were not allowed in school.