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Which of these statements best summarizes how the Civil War changed life in the North and South?

• Both regions suffered equal damage.

• The South’s way of life was almost destroyed.

• Life in the North was not changed by the war.

• Slavery still supported the Southern economy.

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How did the Civil War and Reconstruction influence the balance of power between the states and the federal government?

• The states became more powerful.

• The federal government became more powerful.

• The rights of the states to secede from the Union were re-affirmed.

• The states completely yielded all power to the federal government.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue?

• the right of Northerners to own slaves

• the sale of federal lands to slave owners

• the expansion of slavery into new territories

• the return of slaves who had escaped from the South

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Which of these was a direct consequence of the Civil War?

• the disintegration of the Whig Party

• the addition of new states to the Union

• the use of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

• the extension of voting rights to African American men

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Which of these events sparked southern recession?

• the Missouri Compromis

• the Crittenden Compromise

• the 1860 Democratic convention

• the election of Lincoln as president

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Which point of view on the cause of the Civil War would have been held by a Northern Republican?

• Southern state governments had an obligation to secede once a majority of their voters had approved it.

• Abolitionists caused the Civil ‘war by placing the abolition of slavery ahead of the need to preserve the Union.

• Those voters who elected Abraham Lincoln caused the war by ignoring the fears of many white Southerners.

• Southern slaveholders were so devoted to the immoral system of slavery that they betrayed the nation to preserve this practice.

Stephen Douglas delivered the speech below in Illinois in October 1858:

"The next question . . . is can the people of a Territory in any lawful way . . . exclude slavery from their limits . . .  [I]n my opinion, the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery . . . It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide . . . for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations. 
Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature . . ."

Which of the following did Stephen Douglas support in this speech?

• Wilmot Proviso

• Ostend Manifesto

• Freeport Doctrine

• Dred Scott decision

What were the major consequences of the Civil War?

• the end of slavery and a strengthening of the power of the federal government

• recognition of the rights of states to leave the Union and to nullify federal laws

• an end to racial discrimination and establishment of social equality throughout the nation

• the abolition of slavery in all Northern states and in all federal territories north of 36°30’ N

The excerpt below is from a letter by General Winfield Scott written in 1861.

The Anaconda Plan

“[S]o as to envelope the insurgent States and bring them to terms,
with less bloodshed than by any other plan.”

What was the main objective of the plan described in General Scott’s letter?

• To attack and bring under control a few key Southern cities

• To disrupt Southern supply lines by controlling the railroad junctions in the South

• To sign treaties with Britain and France to prevent them from assisting the South

• To suffocate the South by controlling the Mississippi River and the Southern ports

Why did the Union impose a naval blockade on the South during the Civil War?

• To promote domestic industries in the South

• To strangle the shipment of supplies to the Confederacy

• To motivate enslaved African Americans to migrate to the North

• To encourage Union sympathizers to persuade their states to rejoin the Union