How was Franklin Pierce able to defeat Winfield Scott in the 1852 Presidential election?

Pierce supported the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act

Pierce was a popular governor in the most populous state

Pierce was a war hero and longtime member of the Senate

Pierce favored restricting slavery to where it already existed.

How did the Dred Scott decision impact the expansion of slavery?

The Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not forbid slavery form federal territories.

The Supreme Court ruled that slavery could exist only where it did already.

The Supreme Court ruled that only the people living in the territory could forbid slavery.

The Supreme Court ruled that the president could not allow slavery into newly acquired lands.

Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas joined South Carolina to form ____________________________.

Confederate States of North America

Why was the capture of Vicksburg important to the Union strategy in the west?

It allowed the Union to control the Mississippi River.

It allowed the Union to invade Texas and Arkansas.

It prevented the Confederacy from exporting cotton to Europe.

It prevented the Confederacy from moving troops into the North.

What two important Union leaders led campaigns in the East and in the South in 1864?

General Grant and General Sherman

General Scott and General Sherman

General Pickett and General Sherman

General McClellan and General Sherman

How did the 54th Massachusetts Infantry distinguish itself during the Civil War?

It attacked Fort Wagner heroically and suffered heavy casualties.

It helped take Port Hudson fighting alongside white units.

It helped secure areas in Missouri from Confederate militia.

It patrolled the Mississippi River looking for Confederate smugglers.

How did the role of women change during the Civil War?

Women worked in a number of jobs previously held by men.

Women served alongside men on the battlefield.

Women took care of the children of soldiers.

Women gained leadership positions in government offices.

What did President Lincoln proclaim in the Gettysburg Address?

The Union would win the war so that the ideals it was founded upon would continue.

The Union would win the war so that slavery would end.

The Union would need to win more battles before ultimately winning the war.

The Union would need to invade more territory before finally forcing an end to the war.

Why did the Union want to control the Mississippi River?

It would divide the Confederacy in two.

It would allow the Union to export goods by water.

It would give the Union the port of New Orleans to use.

It would prevent the Confederacy from moving troops into Texas.

Why did many Native Americans support the Confederacy?

They hoped to have greater freedoms under a Confederate government.

They wanted to serve in the Confederate army.

They wanted to capture Union territory for their own use.

They hoped to grow cotton and use slave labor in the Indian Territory.

What was the symbolism of the Emancipation Proclamation?

It defined what the Union was fighting against.

It described how the war would be won.

It outlined how new civil rights would be extended.

It restated the principles and values of the Union.

What is an example of total war?

Destroying railways and bridges

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30 sec • 2 pts

__________________________ prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30’.

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Missouri Compromise of 1830

Missouri Compromise of 1840

Missouri Compromise of 1850

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

Who was the fugitive that returned to slavery with federal help in 1854?

James Corden

John Burns

Anthony Burns

Kasen Wallace

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

What was the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Slavery would be allowed south of the territories.

The people living in the territories would decide whether to allow slavery

Statehood would be granted once enough residents moved into the territories.

The people living in the territories would petition Congress for statehood.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

What group of people did not want California to be a free state because it would upset the balance of slave and free states?

Northerners

Southerners

Democrats

Republicans

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

What is favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country called?

Regionism

Sectionalism

Borderism

Judaism

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

Who wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Ryan Stowe

Clay Williams

Gerald Robinson

Harriet Beecher Stowe

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

Northern Democrats nominated __________________ for the U.S. President in 1860.

Stephen Douglas

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Jefferson

James Williams

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Divided Nation/Civil War Final Exam Review

__________________________ prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30’.

Who was the fugitive that returned to slavery with federal help in 1854?

What was the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

What group of people did not want California to be a free state because it would upset the balance of slave and free states?

What is favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country called?

Who wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Northern Democrats nominated __________________ for the U.S. President in 1860.

How was Franklin Pierce able to defeat Winfield Scott in the 1852 Presidential election?

Which political party formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act outlawed helping _________________ and allowed government officials to make arrests in free states or territories.

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