Unit 5 QUIZIZZ

Supreme Court decision ruling that since slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court

• Homer Plessy
• Dred Scott
• Worchester vs. GA

What concept was the Kansas-Nebraska Act based on?

• Popular sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Monarchism

• Federalism

What was 'Bleeding Kansas'?

• A political campaign

• A financial crisis in Kansas

• A period of intense violence related to slavery decisions

• A natural disaster in Kansas

1. What was a major cause of the Civil War?

• a. land
• b. economy
• c. Taxes
• d. Slavery

3. Which was the first state to secede from the Union?

• Georgia
• Tennessee
• South Carolina
• Florida

4. Why did the Southern states want to leave the union?

• a. They wanted to continue to have slaves
• b. They wanted to be rich
• c. They did not want Jefferson Davis as President
• d. They wanted to be free of England

6. What were the people who fought to end slavery called?

• a. Terrorists
• b. Freedomists
• c. Pilgrims
• d. Abolitionists

9. General Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia used his strategy of total war. What did he and his troops do in that strategy?

• a. Gave money to the poor Southerners.
• b. Destroyed railroads, burned homes and businesses in the South, stole cattle and grain
• c. Sent supplies to the North
• d. Captured all slaves

12. Who was Ulysses S. Grant?

• a. Confederate General
• b. Slave owner
• c. Union General
• d. President of the Confederacy

13. Who was the Confederate General that got his nickname at the first battle of Bull Run when he told his men to stand tall?

• Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant