History Test

William Lloyd Garrison began what which called for immediate emancipation?

• The Liberator

• Slaves Life's

• Nullification Crisis

• Mississippi's Statehood

Abraham Lincoln issued what which "freed all slaves in the Confederacy?

• The Constitution

• Emancipation Proclamation

• States' Rights

• Mississippi Compromise

One of the main goals of the Union was to capture the ______ and split the south

• Mississippi River

• The Confederacy

• American Colonization Society

• Kansas/Nebraska Act

The Civil War officially began with the attack on?

• Fort Sumter

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Jackson, MS

• Liberia

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

• States' Rights

• Nullification Crisis

• Pemberton's Acts

• Tarrifs

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

• John Pemberton

• John Bell

• John Pettus

• John Breckingridge

Before the Union army took Vicksburg, they first had to take?

• Jackson

• Montgomery

• Natchez

• Biloxi

The Republican Party candidate in the election of 1860 was?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

The Democratic Party candidate in the election of 1860 was?

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

The president that made the Louisiana Purchase was?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• John Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson