Civil War

Civil War

8th Grade

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23 Qs

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Civil War

Civil War

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Supreme Court case that most certainly contributed to the start of the Civil War was

Marbury v. Madison.

Dred Scott v. Sanford.

McCulloch v. Maryland.

Brown v. Board of Education.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Dred Scott decision

supported emancipation of slaves.

supported the Missouri Compromise.

reduced the tension between the north and the south.

encouraged slaveholder's resistance to abolitionist activists.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the period before the Civil War, the principle of popular sovereignty meant that whether or not a territory allowed slavery would be left up to

territorial legislatures.

the United States Senate.

the United States Supreme Court.

the President most recently elected.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The secession of South Carolina from the Union in 1860 was prompted by

the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.

the threat of the Congress to abolish slavery.

refusal of Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Law.

the invasion of South Carolina by Union forces at Ft. Sumter.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Emancipation Proclamation was announced after the Battle of

Shiloh.

Vicksburg.

Gettysburg.

Antietam/Sharpsburg.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Union blockade during the Civil War

led to an alliance between the Confederacy and Great Britain.

caused inflation and shortages in the South, especially for manufactured goods.

really had no effect on the South, since they were already agriculturally self-sufficient.

hurt the North most since they relied heavily on Southern cotton and agriculture for its own manufacturing base.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

California was initially admitted as a "free state," while citizens of the Utah and New Mexico territories were left to decide the issue for themselves. Which of these set this up?

Wilmot Proviso

Compromise of 1850

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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