The Sectional Crisis and Start of Civil War

What is the name of the Law that brought Anti-slavery and pro-slavery people to Kansas?

• The Kansas Nebraska Act

• The Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Indian Removal Act

What was the purpose of the Anaconda plan?

• To quickly capture Richmond

• To launch a surprise attack on the Confederacy

• To surround and strangle the South

• To negotiate a peaceful resolution

At the beginning of the Civil War, most northern soldiers went to war to do what?

• Preserve the Union

• Eradicate slavery

• Find employment during an economic depression

• Earn GI Bill benefits

Who said the Confederacy’s “foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.”

• Alexander Stephens

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Frederick Douglas

What was ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• the court ruled that Dred Scott was a free man

• the court ruled that slavery was illegal in southern states

• the court ruled that slavery was illegal in the United States

• the court ruled that African Americans-enslaved or free-were not citizens of the United States

How did John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry influence the Election of 1860?

• It had no influence.

• It increased tensions between the North and South.

• It led to the immediate election of Abraham Lincoln.

• It caused the South to support John Brown.

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Who came up with the Anaconda plan?

• General Ulysses S. Grant

• General Robert E. Lee

• General Stonewall Jackson

• General Winfield Scott

What was the bloodiest war in US History (the war in which the most Americans died)?

• The US Civil War

• World War II

• The Pig War of 1859

• World War I

What was Bleeding Kansas about?

• If Kansas would have slavery.

• John Brown

• If Missouri would have slavery.

• Taking Land from Mexico

Who was the famous radical Abolitionist who fought in Kansas with his 5 sons?

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

• William Lloyd Garrison