A Nation Divided Pre-assessment

What economic issue created a better division between the North and the South?

• tariffs

• production

• agriculture

• manufacturing

Who was the leader of the Army of Northern Virginia even though he opposed secession?

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act state?

• The people living in each new state would decide the slavery issue for themselves

• There would always be a balance in the number of free and slave states

• All new states were free of slavery.

• All new states were added as slave states.

Who created the American Red Cross?

• Clara Barton

• Frederick Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• Susan B. Anthony

Jefferson Davis was

• a great Southern general

• President of the Confederate States

• a Union naval captain

• President of the United States

While there were several differences between the North and South, what major issue increasingly divided the nation and led to the Civil War?

• decent farmland

• price of manufactured goods

• slavery

• federal taxes

Which of the following states was NOT a part of the Union forces?

• Virginia

• Ohio

• West Virginia

• California

Northerners believed that the national government's power was-

• limited by state's rights

• only enforceable in the western territories

• supreme over the states

• just to be used by the President

What piece of legislation had Missouri enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Emancipation

  Proclamation

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Most Southerners believed that states had freely created and joined the Union so-

• they could freely leave the Union if they chose

• the Union could not be separated or divided

• new states could not be formed

• there should only be one country on the North American continent