Civil War (Heritage Studies)

A person who opposed slavery

• Stephen Douglas

• abolitionist

• southerner

• Mr. Jackson

He proposed the Anaconda Plan

• George Little

• Abe Lincoln

• General Winfield Scott

• General Lee

A slave who sued his owners to receive his freedom

• Little Johnny

• Harriet Tubman

• George Wilson

• Dred Scott

The principle that the federal government has limited authority over each state is called

• state's rights

• Dictatorship

• limited resolution

• Rights of the Govenor

True or False

The South wanted to continue owning slaves

• True

• False

The first state to leave the Union

• North Carolina

• Texas

• Mississippi

• South Carolina

Who attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861

• North

• South

• Union

• President Lincoln

After the election of 1860, many states decided to

• secede from the union

• Stay poor

• become abolitionists

• keep their gold

True or False

John Bell and his party said that the constitution permitted slavery

• True

• False

True or False

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required Americans to help return runaway slaves

• False

• True