Unit 4: Civil War

The Missouri Compromise...

• made more free states than slave states.

• helped maintain the balance of slave states and free states.

• made more slave states than free states.

• made it difficult to impeach the president.

According to the idea of popular sovereignty, which of the following would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory.

• the residents of the territory

• the president

• the senate

• Miss Lawson

The Topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was…

• Southern secession

• how tall Lincoln was

• state management

• slavery

California entered the Union as a free state, the South received tighter Fugitive Slave Laws, and the concept of Popular Sovereignty was born under which legislation?

• Compromise 1877

• Freedman's Bureau

• Compromise 1850

• 13th amendment

How did the court rule in the Dred Scott decision?

• African Americans were able to vote

• African Americans were freed from slavery.

• African Americans have no rights

• African Americans were not able to vote

The physical fight for the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers & anti-slavery settlers was called...

• Bleeding Kansas

• Civil War

• Freedman affair

• Killing Kansas

Lincoln’s victory convinced Southerners that they had lost their political voice in the national government. Convinced South Carolina to secede from the union.

• Election 1860

• Election 1864

• Popular sovereignty

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Democrats recaptured southern state governments. As a result of redemption, congressional Reconstruction came to an end.

• Southern reclaiming

• Southern secession

• Southern redemption

Surrender at Appomattox...

• Officially ends the Civil War.

• Gave the confederacy the upperhand.

• Officially begins the Civil War

Jim Crow Laws were...

• racial segregation laws.

• Racial slurs

• Racial desegregation laws

• Separated military members by race.