Civil War

Which sequence of events correctly identifies a rise in tensions, bringing the

nation closer toward armed conflict?

• John Brown's Raid

  -

  Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

  -

  Dred Scott

  decision

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

  -

  Admission of California to statehood

• "Bleeding Kansas”

  -

  Admission of Maine and Missouri to

  statehood

Which event was the catalyst for the secession of the first seven Southern

states in 1861?

• passage of a higher protective tariff

• issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• the election of Abraham Lincoln as President

• the shipment of Union supplies to Fort Sumter

Which title best completes the diagram?

• Union Troops Occupy Fort Pickens

• Slaves in Florida Fought for the Union

• The Florida Economy Booms during the Civil War

• Florida’s Contribution to the South during the Civil War

The excerpt below is from a letter by General Winfield Scott written in 1861.

The Anaconda Plan

“[S]o as to envelope the insurgent States and bring them to terms, with less

bloodshed than by any other plan.”

What was the main objective of the plan described in General Scott’s letter?

• to attack and bring under control a few key Southern cities

• to disrupt Southern supply lines by controlling the railroad junctions in

  the South

• to disrupt Southern supply lines by controlling the railroad junctions in

  the South

• to suffocate the South by controlling the Mississippi River and the

  Southern ports

Why did the Union impose a naval blockade on the South during the Civil War?

• to promote domestic industries in the South

• to strangle the shipment of supplies to the Confederacy

• to motivate enslaved African Americans to migrate to the North

• to encourage Union sympathizers to persuade their states to rejoin the

  Union

Which of these strategies was NOT used by the South to counter the North’s

advantages in resources shown in the graph?

• The South would invade and capture major Union cities.

• The South would fight a defensive war on its own terrain

• The South would use its pool of talented military experience.

• The South would conscript troops and print its own paper money

What was a significant impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Slaves in Northern states were freed

• The war became a moral contest over slavery

• Slaves in border states were immediately freed

• African Americans were admitted into the Confederate army.

What were the major consequences of the Civil War?

• the end of slavery and a strengthening of the power of the federal

  government

• recognition of the rights of states to leave the Union and to nullify

  federal laws

• an end to racial discrimination and establishment of social equality

  throughout the nation

• the abolition of slavery in all Northern states and in all federal territories

  north of 36° 30' N

Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War?

• Southerners feared that Northerners intended to abolish slavery.

• Southern states wanted a free hand in suppressing local slave revolts.

• The

  Dred Scott

  decision led Northern state officials to defy federal law.

• Northerners opposed the shipment of Southern cotton to Great Britain.

The excerpt below is from a recently written history of the Civil War.

What were the rights and liberties for which Confederates contended? The

right to own slaves; the liberty to take this property into the territories; freedom from the coercive powers of a centralized government.

—James McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom

What contradiction does this Civil War historian find in the secession of the Southern states?

• Confederates were outnumbered by Northerners

• Confederates demanded the freedom to enslave others

• Confederates believed that states had the right to leave the Union.

• Confederates felt that slaves were better treated than Northern factory

  workers.