Civil War Review

The compromise of 1820 established what state as a free state?

• Missouri

• Maine

• Iowa

• New Hampshire

This was created to send runaway slaves back to their owners

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Law

• The Fugitive Act

What new political group wanted to remove slavery in the United States?

• Whigs

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Democratic-Republicans

What did the courts decide about Dred Scott’s freedom?

• He could not get married

• He could not own land

• He was not a U.S. citizen

• He was not allowed to return to Wisconsin

Why were the north and south so worried about keeping the same number of states equal?

• Couldn't afford to make the Capitol bigger

• Power in Congress, voting power

• Couldn't decide states new names

• Couldn't find anyone to represent new states

. Which of the following amendments outlawed slavery in the United States?

• 12th

• 14th

• 13th

• 15th

What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• To end the Civil War

• Solidified citizenship rights

• Granted African American men the right to vote

• To expand the right to vote for women

What amendment officially grants citizenship to persons born or naturalized in the U.S.?

• 12th

• 15th

• 14th

• 13th

The following practices can be characterized as part of the Jim Crow system except…

• Slavery

• Segregation

• Literacy Tests

• Sharecropping

This was an influential novel written prior to the Civil War that exposed the atrocities of slavery.

• “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

• “The Scarlet Letter”

• “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

• “How the Other Half Lives”