American Civil War 2025

Lincoln’s election led Southern states to consider ________.

• secession
• joining the Union
• revolution

What is the name of the case that said slaves were property?

• Dred Scott v. Sanford
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Marbury v. Madison

To leave the Union

• secession

• nullify

• election

• states' rights

The commander of Andersonville was _______ after the war.

• executed
• forgiven
• released

Free states were located in the ____________.

• north
• south

Which southern state seceded first?

• Georgia
• Alabama
• South Carolina
• North Carolina

North received this in Compromise of 1850:

• ending slave trade in D.C.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• California became a slave state

By 1860, ___________ accounted for 50% of the U.S. exports.

• cotton

• rice

• silk

• steel

Slave states were located in the _________.

• north
• south

This compromise admitted California to the Union in exchange for the Fugitive Slave Law.

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1860