Civil War

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Emancipation Proclamation was announced after the Battle of

• Shiloh.

• Vicksburg.

• Gettysburg.

• Antietam/Sharpsburg.

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.

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

Jefferson Davis played what role in the Civil War?

• Union general

• Confederate general

• President of the Confederate States

• Cabinet member of the U. S. government

How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?

• It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.

• It made the Mississippi River the dividing line between slave states and free states.

• It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

• It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.

One purpose of General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was to

• break the spirits of Confederate citizens.

• allow troops under his command to get rest.

• find ships to sail his soldiers to the North.

• prove that he was the most skilled Union general.