Civil War

What kept the balance of free and slave states by letting Missouri join as slave and Maine as free?

• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Dred Scott Decision
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Missouri Compromise

What allowed California to join as a free state and made strong fugitive slave laws?

• The Missouri Compromise
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Dred Scott Decision

What law allowed the people living in an area the right to vote on issues?

• Popular Sovereignty

• Anarchy
• Dictatorship
• Revolution

What event was commonly called a preview to the Civil War because people were fighting and killed over different views about slavery.?

• Bleeding Kansas
• Dred Scott Decision
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Battle of Gettysburg

Which state seceded first?

• North Carolina
• Georgia
• Virginia
• South Carolina

Which wasn't a border states (states that had slavery, but didn’t secede.)

• New York

• Virginia
• Maryland
• Kentucky

What case denied a slave's claim that he was free and said he couldn’t sue because he wasn’t a citizen?

• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Marbury v. Madison
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Which region, North or South, liked the Fugitive Slave Act?  Why?

• North because it made them rich

• North because it gave them more land

• South because it helped them get escaped slaves back

• South because it gave them more power in the government

What was NOT a reason southern states seceded from the Union?

• Lincoln won the election, giving the North control of the government. 

• They didn't like the American flag.

• They were worried that because the North didn’t support slavery, they would now pass laws to ban it.

• They felt states rights were important and were being ignored.

What was NOT an advantage the North had over the South related to the war effort?

• More money

• More railroads

• More soldiers

• More slaves