Civil War Pre-Assessment

The belief that state's should be able to make decisions for themselves is known as

• Tariffs

• The Law

• Slavery

• State's Rights

An abolitionist was

• An escaped slave

• A political opponent of state's rights

• A slave owner

• Someone opposed to slavery

This cause of the Civil War required all people in the United States to help return runaway slaves.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Sectionalism

• States' Rights

The Compromise of 1850 dealt with the issue of slavery by

• It admitted California as a free state and allowed for popular sovereignty to determine slavery in the Mexican Cession.

• It did not deal with slavery.

• It allowed slavery in Texas.

• It caused slave owners to become more violent to their slaves.

Sectionalism is

• loyalty to your region or state

• loyalty to your country

• loyalty to school

• loyalty to your family

What was the central issue regarding states' rights that helped spark the Civil War in America?

• Seceding states believed the federal government should not intervene in state's decisions. 
• Seceding states believed that only state governments could handle the issue of individual rights.
• Seceding states believed the U.S. Constitution prevented states from establishing local taxation. 
• Seceding states believed the federal government was not permitted to raise tariffs.

The word SECEDE means to

• break away from

• fall down

• be patriotic

• start a war

The states that left the Union called themselves the...

• Non-Union States of America

• Southern States of America

• Confederate States Of America

• Southern Nation

What specific event triggered the South's secession from the Union

• Compromise of 1850

• Election of Abraham Lincoln 1860

• Tariffs

• Slavery

Who am I?

*Southerners saw him as threat to slavery

*Elected President of the U.S. in 1860

*Prompted South Carolina, Texas and other states to secede from the Union.

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee