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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• It freed all slaves in states fighting against the Union.

• It freed all slaves in the United States

• It put Ulysses S. Grant in charge of all Union forces.

• It allowed slaves to fight in the Confederate army.

Another name for the United States of America.

• C.S.A.

• The Confederacy

• The Union

• The 13 colonies

Which of the following actions was the

immediate cause of the Civil War?

• secession over border disputes

• secession over international tariffs

• secession over the issue of slavery

• secession over the Missouri

  Compromise

Which was an agreement that admitted

California as a free state, and issued a

strong Fugitive Slave Law?

• Nullification

• Missouri Compromise

• State's Rights

• Tariffs

• Compromise of 1850

Which of the following BEST describes

how the Georgia Platform on the

Compromise of 1850 could be said to

have contributed to the eventual

outbreak of the Civil War?

• The Georgia Platform caused widespread anger in the North and increased its willingness to eventually fight the South.

• The Georgia Platform caused more

  Southerners to believe that they could

  force the federal government to accept

  demands about slavery.

• The Georgia Platform put the South in a position in which further free states

  joining the Union would mean seceding or accepting the inevitability of abolition.

• The Georgia Platform offered only a temporary compromise which did little to address the fundamental disagreements over slavery and states’ rights between the North and the South.

Both abolitionists and those who

supported popular sovereignty were

angered because by the ruling in the

Dred Scott case. Which of the following

summarizes the Supreme Court’s

decision? Choose the BEST TWO

answers.

• slaves can decide for themselves

  whether to reside in free territory

• slaves can sue for their freedom

  because of the Fifth Amendment

• slaves had no right to sue

• slavery violated the Missouri

  Compromise

• slaveholders can keep their slaves in any state because slaves were

  considered property

Why did many Southerners oppose

Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential

election? Select all that apply.

• Lincoln planned to lower tariffs on many

  European goods.

• Lincoln wanted to halt the spread of

  slavery in the country.

• They thought his victory would threaten

  the Southern economy.

• They thought electing him would harm

  US trade with South America.

Name the 3 causes of the Civil War

• Slavery, States' Rights, Nullification

• Nullification, States rights, and People

• Slavery, Federal Rights, Nullification

The most controversial issue dividing northerners and southerners during the 1800s was the issue of _____?

• Slavery
• States rights
• Nullification

Republican candidate and victor in the election of 1860

• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge
• Abraham Lincoln