Civil War Review

What is a draft?

• the border between two fighting armies

• when the government requires civilians to fight

• a violent protest or event by a crowd

• when people are loyal to one part of the country rather than to the country as a whole

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book to show the cruelties of slavery. What was it called?

• Uncle Tom's Hotel

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Uncle Joe's Best Recipes

• Uncle Bob's Journey

What is a direct effect of the Battle of Vicksburg?

• The Confederacy's victory split the South in half

• Several states seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy

• Lee immediately surrendered to Grant and ended the war.

• The Union's victory prevented Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas from sending supplies to the eastern part of the Confederacy

A result of Abraham Lincoln winning the 1860 presidential election was?

• 7 southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederacy

• President Buchanan threatened to invade South Carolina

• Senator Sumner was beaten on the Senate floor

• the border states sided with the Confederacy

Law that allowed the federal government to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, even in free states is known as the

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Harper's Ferry

• Bleeding Kansas

Which of the following best describes John Brown?

• A peaceful abolitionists who hated violence

• A strong supporter of slavery who used violence to spread slavery

• A pro slavery supporter

• A radical abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery

On what battlefield did Abraham Lincoln give his famous Gettysburg Address speech about unifying the country?

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox Courthouse

The Kansas-Nebraska Act...

• Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

• Required all runaway slaves in Kansas and Nebraska to be returned to their slaveholder

• allowed the people of Kansas and Nebraska to demonstrate "popular sovereignty" with the issue of slavery

• Confirmed the Missouri Compromise

The Dred Scott decision had a major impact on life in the United States because it

• limited the power of the Supreme Court to rule on cases of race

• reopened the issue on whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories

• Ended slavery once and for all

• gave the president the right to serve more than two terms in office

Which statement best describes the economic differences between the North and the South prior to the Civil War?

• The Northern economy had significant manufacturing, while the Southern economy was almost exclusively agricultural

• The Southern economy had significant manufacturing, while the Northern economy was almost exclusively agricultural

• The Southern economy was more diversified than the Northern economy

• Neither the South nor the North had a diversified economy