Civil War 8th

What is a civil war?

• citizens in 5 countries fighting each other

• 2 or more countries fighting each other

• citizens in the same country fighting each other

• 2 countries fighting each other

The states that refused to leave the nation were called the

• Northerns

• Union

• Lincolners

• Loyalists

Who was the President of the states that left America?

• Jefferson Davis

• Andrew Johnson

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

The states that seceded were known as the

• Righteous

• Union

• Confederacy

• Red Coats

This compromise main objective was that future states added to America should include 1 free state added, then 1 slave state Must be added and vice versa

• Southern

• American

• Missouri

• Northern

Who was the president when the Civil War begin?

• Davis

• Jackson

• Lincoln

• Washington

In 1857 the nation's top court, the supreme court, ruled that living in a free state and territory did not entitle _______ to his freedom because, as an enslaved man, he was not a citizen, but essentially another person's property. Fill in the blank

• General Grant

• General Lee

• Fredrick Douglas

• Dred Scott

The _____________ the controversial bill raised the possibility that slavery could be EXTENDED into territories where it had once been banned.

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• American Compromise

• Arkansas Act

• State's Rights Act

He was the General for the Confederacy military.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E Lee

• Uylsess S Grant

The _______ battle was known as the "turning point" and bloodiest battle in the Civil War

• Gettysburg

• Battle of Bull Run

• Sherman's March

• Vickisburg