civil war

What is the name for people who wanted to put an end to slavery?

• Underground Railroaders 
• Suffragists
• Bushwackers
• Abolitionists

What was the official name of the south during the Civil War?

• Confederate States of America

• Rebel States of America

• Southern States of America

• Confederate States of the South

Which battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?

• Battle of Antietam

• Siege of Vickburg

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Battle of Gettysburg

This picture depicts what event?

• Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

• Lee's Surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse

• Grant's Surrender at the Battle of Fort Sumter

• Grant and Lee signing the Treaty of Paris

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Banned slavery in rebelling states

• Banned slavery in only northern states

• Prohibited slavery in the west

• Banned slavery throughout the United States

What is the main effect of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?

• It reduced global demand for cotton and le US farmers to grow other crops

• It made it possible to produce clothing by machine and led to the building of textile factories throughout the southern US

• It allowed people to grow cotton in the western territories

• It allowed cotton to be processed more quickly and profitably and led to the expansion of slavery in the southern US

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

• end fighting between mid-western farmers and Native Americans

• encourage manufacturing in the West

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories

What was the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• to admit Kansas as a free state and Nebraska as a slave state

• to allow the citizens to decide if a state would be a free state or a slave state

• to allow border ruffians to vote in Kansas elections to promote slavery

• to negotiate a deal for territory with Native Americans in Oklahoma

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 created the most controversy?

• the admission of California as a free state

• the organization of New Mexico and Utah as territories open to slavery

• the ending of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• the passage of a strong fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their owners

Why did General Lee join the Confederate military?

• He was in favor of slavery.

• He felt loyalty to his native Virginia.

• He believed in the rights of states to secede.

• He had been defeated in the presidential election.