Civil War Vocabulary 2023

Someone who was strongly in favor of ending slavery was called _____.

• an activist

• a philanthropist

• an abolitionist

• a racist

What was the basis of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• That slavery was taking away from American pride.

• That African Americans' rights were protected by the Constitution.

• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens.

• That slavery should be abolished immediately.

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

What is popular sovereignty?

• A way to be involved in all decisions for a country.

• Government based on the consent of the people.

• Government based on the popularity of the people.

• Government that is separate but equal.

Authorized government officials to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.

• Slave Codes

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation

• Conscription

The Southern States were called the ________.

• Mason Dixon Line

• Low State People

• Confederacy or the Confederate States of America

• plantations

What do we call the states in red with blue dashed lines?

• Confederate States (South)

• Union States (North)

• Border States

• Swing States

The ___________________ was a strategy to conquer the South by keeping the soldiers from getting supplies.

• draft

• Anaconda Plan

• total war

• blockade

Which of the following did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed all slaves in the Confederate states that were not currently under Union control.

• Laid the groundwork for a future constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery.

• Allowed for African American men to fight in the Union army.

• All of the above

Why was the Gettysburg Address written?

• The Revolutionary War

• Abraham Lincoln was upset about the Civil War

• Gettysburg was the deadliest battle in the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln felt that people needed to honor those who lost their life.

• People were protesting the Civil War.