Civil War & Reconstruction Unit Test Review

What was the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Statehood would be granted once enough residents moved into the territories.

• The people living in the territories would decide whether to allow slavery.

• The people living in the territories would petition Congress for statehood.

• Slavery would be allowed south of the territories.

What was the final result with Sherman's March to the Sea?

• Confederate Victory

• Union Victory

__________________ guided escaped slaves out of the South using the Underground Railroad.

How did the Dred Scott decision impact the expansion of slavery?

• The Supreme Court ruled that only the people living in the territory could forbid slavery.

• The Supreme Court ruled that the president could not allow slavery into newly acquired lands.

• The Supreme Court ruled that slavery could exist only where it did already.

• The Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not forbid slavery from federal territories.

Constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What was the final result with the Battle of Bull Run?

• Confederate Victory

• Union Victory

What did President Lincoln proclaim in the Gettysburg Address?

• The Union would win the war so that the ideals it was founded upon would continue.

• The Union would need to win more battles before ultimately winning the war.

• The Union would need to invade more territory before finally forcing an end to the war.

• The Union would win the war so that slavery would end.

Constitutional amendment that made slavery illegal throughout the entire country.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

__________________ was the federal outpost in Charleston, SC that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, which sparked the Civil War.

Select the correct option to show whether each statement was passed to satisfy the concerns of either the North or South in the Compromise of 1850.

"Territories from the Mexican Cession would use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery."

• North

• South