Unit 4 -- Civil War

The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, contributed to the start of the Civil War by

• intensifying Northern dislike of slavery

• convincing Congress to ban the importation of slaves

• pressuring the president to support emancipation

• pressuring the president to support emancipation

The Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was significant because it

• outlawed slavery in the Southern States

• ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories

• upheld the actions of the Underground Railroad

• allowed slavery in California

Which situation was the most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency in 1860?

• Missouri entered the Union as a slave state

• A constitutional amendment was adopted to end slavery

• Several Southern States seceded from the Union

• Kansas and Nebraska joined the Union as free states

One way that “Bleeding Kansas,” the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events

• contributed to the formation of the Whig Party

• eased tensions between the North and the South

• ended conflict over slavery in the territories

• made sectional compromise more difficult

Which Supreme Court decision created the need for a constitutional amendment that would grant citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Worcester v. Georgia

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

What impact did the Emancipation Proclamation have on the war?

• it made the war about saving the Union and ending slavery

• it kept Britain from entering the war on the side of the Union

• it prevented the South from using slaves as soldiers in the army

• it increased support for allowing the southern states to leave the Union

Which battle was the bloodiest of the Civil War?

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• Appomattox

• Antietam

Which was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860?

• Virginia

• Maryland

• South Carolina

• Texas

What led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Lee’s surrender to Grant

• the Battle of Antietam

• the Battle of Gettysburg

• the Second Battle of Bull Run

What did the First Battle of Bull Run prove to both sides?

• the Confederacy would soon gain military support from Britain

• Union soldiers were better trained than Confederate soldiers

• the war would not be won easily by either side

• the war would be won by the Confederacy