2023 US Studies Civil War Review

An Act permitting the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to vote on the issue of slavery.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

• Dred Scott Decision

Events and clashes, often violent, between pro-slavery and anti-slavery inhabitants of the Kansas territory.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

• Dred Scott Decision

An Act permitting Missouri to join the Union as a slave state, and Maine to join the Union as a free state.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

• Dred Scott Decision

Supreme Court case that determined slavery was legal in all territories and that enslaved people are not citizens.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

• Dred Scott Decision

Match the following historical figure to their description

• William Sherman

• General for the Union, he lead the March to Sea across Georgia.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• President of the United States during the Civil War. 

• Jefferson Davis

• President of the Confederate States of America during Civil War.

• Robert E. Lee

• Leading General for the Confederacy.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Leading General for the Union.  

When people are practicing popular sovereignty, what does this mean?

• The President decides on the issue

• People directly vote on the issue

• Leaders make the decision without consulting the people

• Leaders compromise on the issue

Which of the following is NOT an advantage the North had over the South?

• Higher population

• More Military Experience

• More Railroads

• More factories

Which of the following events was the direct cause of South Carolina seceding from the Union?

• Dred Scott Decision

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates over Slavery

• Bleeding Kansas

• The election of Abraham Lincoln

What impact did Uncle Tom's Cabin have on people living in the Northern States?

• Turned Northerners against slavery

• Divided Northerners on the issue of slavery

• Weakened the Abolitionist Movement

• Turned Northerners to support slavery

Which of the following battles turned the tide of the war in favor of the North?

• Fort Sumter

• First Battle of Bull Run

• Gettysburg

• Sherman's March to the Sea