8th Grade Civil War

What advantages did the South (Confederacy) have?

• More factories and more railroads

• Lincoln was their president

• Fighting took place on their territory and defending their way of life

• Larger population and navy

When Maine was added as a free state, what state was added as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Kentucky

• Missouri

• California

• Kansas

What advantages did the North have at the beginning of the Civil War?

• Fighting on their homeland

• Robert E Lee

• Large industrial economy

• Large population

Which of the following is NOT a term of the Compromise of 1850?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• California entered Union as a free state

• Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

• Slave trade ended in Washington DC

Who won the 1860 presidential election?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

• George Washington

During his 1858 debates with Douglas, whose views on slavery did Lincoln most agree with?

• Judge Taney

• Stephen Douglas

• John Calhoun

• David Wilmot

Why did Southern states decide to secede?

• The North had invaded the South

• The Constitution did not protect them

• Seceding would protect their economy

• Lincoln was elected president and he was viewed as a threat to their way of life

_______________ allowed western territories to request to enter the Union as free states.

What feature guarded Charleston harbor and would be the first site of conflict between the North and South?

• Mississippi River

• Fort Sumter

• West Point

• Gettysburg

How would California entering the Union as a free state affect the balance of power?

• There would be more free than slave representatives in the House

• There would be more slave than free representatives in the Senate

• There would be more free than slave representatives in the Senate

• There would be more slave than free representatives in the Senate