Unit 5: The Civil War

What is the Federal Government decision that determined slaves to not be considered citizens and therefore do not have the rights afforded to citizens under the constitution.

• Marbury vs Madison

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• McCullough vs Maryland

• Brown vs Board of Education

Which is the BEST description of why the Compromise of 1850 was successful in defusing the sectional conflict between both sides of the slavery issue?

• Northerners were pleased that Maine entered the Union as a "free" state, while Southerners were appeased by the admission of Missouri to the Union as a "slave" state.

• Both sides of the conflict--the Whigs and Republicans of the North and the Democrats of the South-- were satisfied with the abolition of slavery in all states and territories north of the 34th parallel.

• Northern Whigs and Republicans supported the Compromise because it brought Kansas and Nebraska into the Union as "free" states, while Southern Democrats were appeased with the repeal of the Tariff of 1832.

• Northerners were pleased with California's admission to the Union as a "free" state and the use of popular sovereignty in western territories, while Southerners were appeased with the passage of a stronger Fugitive Slave act.

The Missouri Compromise dealt with

• the admission of California and Missouri to the Union.

• the expansion of slavery into the former Louisiana Territory. Missouri as a slave state and Main as a free state.

• the slave trade in Washington, DC, and the return of runaway slaves.

• the right of states to negotiate their own trade agreements with foreign nations

This poster was MOST likely inspired by which government action?

• the passage of The Fugitive Slave Act

• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the Plessy v. Ferguson decision

• the Dred Scott v. Sandford decisionv

Before the Civil War began, which issue played the GREATEST role in increasing tension and conflict between northern and southern states?

• northern opposition to the Tariff of 1832

• westward expansion and the issue of how to seize land owned by the Native Americans

• westward expansion and the issue of whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories

• the Indian Removal Act, the "Trail of Tears," and the creation of Indian reservations in Oklahoma

Which word below means that you are loyal to part of a country, but not the whole country?

• Loyalism.

• Unionism.

• Federalism.

• Sectionalism.

According to the map, which candidate for President received the most support in the Southern States?

• Bell

• Breckinridge

• Douglas

• Lincoln

"I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat."- John Brown, December 2, 1859. 

Why was John Brown put to death in 1859?

• He tried to kill Robert E Lee

• He wrote a book supporting succession

• He attempted to cause a slave uprising

• He attempted to assassinate President Lincoln

Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to

• Preserve the Union

• Encourage sectionalism

• Enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• End slavery throughout the entire country

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."- "The Gettysburg Address," Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863. 

In the opening sentence, Lincoln is referring to which of these?

• The Civil War

• The Declaration of Independence

• The American Revolution

• The Battle of Gettysburg