Mississippi in the Civil War Study Guide Quiz

Before the Union Army took Vicksburg, they first had to take _________.

• Baton Rouge

• Memphis

• New Orleans

• Jackson

• Natchez

William Lloyd Garrison began publishing ____________ which called for immediate emancipation.

• states rights

• the liberator

• tariffs

• Liberia

• Nullification Crisis

Abraham Lincoln issued the ____________ ____________

which "freed" all slaves in the Confederacy.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fort Sumter

• Constitution

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansa-Nebraska Act

One of the main goals of the Union army was to capture the _________________ and split the south.

• Confederacy

• Vicksburg

• Natchez

• Mississippi River

• liberator

The Civil War officially began with the attack on ________.

• Missouri Compromise

• Fort Sumter

• Titans

• American Colonization Society

• The Union

The rights of individual states prevailing over the federal government is called ____________.

• the law of the confederacy

• Nullification Crisis

• Compromise

• tariff

• states rights

The siege of Vicksburg lasted for six weeks until ______________ finally surrendered the city.

• John Breckinridge

• John Bell

• John Pettus

• John Pemberton

• John Calhoun

The Republican Party candidate in the election of 1860 was ___________________.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Steven Douglas

• John Calhoun

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

The Democratic Party candidate in the election of 1860 was _________________.

• Steven Douglas

• John Pemberton

• David Holmes

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Abraham Lincoln

The president that made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was _______________.

• Joe Biden

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas Jefferson

• Donald Trump

• John Calhoun