The Civil War and Mississippi

Which one of the following justifies the statement that one of the reasons Mississippi seceded from the Union was because of states' rights?

• Mississippians believed that slavery was a God-given right

• Mississippians believed that slaves would starve if freed, because they had no education.

• Mississippi's economy was heavily dependent upon cotton and the slave labor which produced it.

• Mississippians believed that individual states had the right to decide about slavery, and the federal [national] government could not dictate that choice.

What was the most accurate summary of how the Dred Scott Case of 1857 affected the nation?

• Abolitionists were overjoyed to find that finally, the nation (and the U.S. Supreme Court) agreed with them.

• Northerners were sad to hear that slavery would now be allowed in all the new incoming states and territories.

• Southerners felt justified in describing slaves as property, while Northerners were outraged by the Supreme Court's ruling.

What military tactic is it when the city is surrounded and supplies are cut-off?

• siege

• ambush

• trench warfare

• flanking maneuver

Which word is the BEST synonym for 'impregnable' when describing the Southerners' perception of Vicksburg?

• mortal

• undying

• breakable

• indestructible

What was Union General William Sherman known for by the end of the war?

• Destroying anything of use by civilians in the South

• Arguing with other Union generals when he did not get his way

• Saving enslaved people as he made his way through the Confederacy

• Making promises with Native Americans in the area that he could not keep

Select all parts included in the Union's Anaconda Plan.

• Cut off Mississippi from the rest of the Confederacy

• Blockade southern ports to prevent supplies from entering

• Interrogate potential spies in border states with Confederate sympathies

• Take control of the Mississippi River to cut off the western Confederate states

Sectional rivalries during the period before the American Civil War centered mainly around which of the following issues?

• tariffs, the currency system, and trust regulation

• states rights, the extension of slavery, and tariffs

• conservation, foreign policy, and women's suffrage

• foreign policy, the abolition of slavery, and the currency system

Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states, including Mississippi, from the Union in 1860?

• The election of President Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

• The Missouri Compromise, which kept an even balance between the number of free and slave states

• The raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, which was led by the militant abolitionist John Brown

• The Dred Scott decision, which declared that all prior compromises on the extension of slavery into the territories were unconstitutional

What was one way that 'Bleeding Kansas,' the Dred Scott decision and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had a similar effect on the United States?

• They all ended conflict over slavery in the territories

• They all made a sectional compromise more difficult

• They all eased tensions between the North and the South

• They all contributed to the formation of the Republican Party

Select all of the ways enslaved people in Mississippi were impacted by the Civil War.

• Some became nurses in the Confederate battle camps.

• Some organized supply drives for the Confederate military.

• Some followed Union troops in order to gain protection and food.

• Some considered themselves free after hearing about the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Some were out of work because of the disruption of agriculture and the Southern economy.