What happened at Harper's Ferry?

John Brown wanted to start a slave revolt

What did the Dred Scott decision rule?

African-Americans/Slaves could never be citizens

Why did Lincoln need the Emancipation Proclamation?

Lincoln saw it as military measure necessary to win the war

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Pop. Sov. in Kansas and Nebraska

What was the Anaconda Plan?

A plan by the Union to break the Confederacy in half

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

The North legally had to return slaves

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Lincoln freed the slaves in states of rebellion

What was the response to Nat Turner in the South and the North?

South limited Slave rights/North saw him as hero

Why was the Battle of Gettysburg so important?

The South lost too much and never recovered

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US History-Civil War and Reconstruction

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1
What were Jim Crow laws?
Legal laws of segregation
Illegal laws of segregation
Legal laws of full integration
Illegal laws of full integration
2
Who was Nat Turner?
A slave
A free man
A slave-owner
A politician
3
What is one advantage the North had over the South?
Bigger population
Stronger public support for the war effort
Knowledge of the land
Better generals
4
What happened at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown wanted to start a slave revolt
The first battle of the Civil War
The South broke away from the Union
Nat Turner wanted to start a slave revolt
5
Who authored the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
John Brown
Thomas Jefferson
6
What was one of the provisions of the Great Compromise of 1850?
California admitted as slave state
Fugitive Slave Act
Slavery in the North
Line drawn at 36'30
7
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Horace Greeley
John Wilkes Booth
John Brown
8
What did the Dred Scott decision rule?
African-Americans/Slaves are citizens
Only Dred Scott himself could be a citizen
African-Americans/Slaves could sometimes be citizens
African-Americans/Slaves could never be citizens
9
What was one advantage that the South had over the North?
Bigger population
More industrialized
Better generals
Fighting an offensive war
10
What was the period after the Civil War known as?
Restruction
"The period after the Civil War"
Reconstruction
Rebuild
11
What was the Southern response to Reconstruction?
Everyone got along just fine. :)
Many Southerns moved North
Most southerns fully supported Reconstruction
Racial Tension; KKK
12
Why did Lincoln need the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln always wanted to free the slaves
Lincoln never wrote the Proclamation; it was Henry Clay
Lincoln wanted to end slavery once and for all
Lincoln saw it as military measure necessary to win the war
13
What were the Reconstruction Amendments?
All of the above
Gave African-Americans citizenship
Abolished Slavery
Gave African-American men the right to vote
14
What was one of the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?
California added as Free State
Missouri added as free state
Line drawn at 36' 30
Maine added as slave state
15
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Maine as free state
California as free state
Pop. Sov. in Kansas and Nebraska
Slaveholding made illegal in Washington DC
16
How did freed people in the South make their money?
Working in factories
All jobs were open to freed peoples
Sharecropping
Buying their own land
17
What happened as a result of Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Bleeding Kansas
Friendly Kansas
Sunny Kansas
Lawrence Kansas
18
What was the event that DIRECTLY caused the South to secede?
Election of Jefferson Davis
Election of Abraham Lincoln
John Brown and Harper's Ferry
Battle of Fort Sumter
19
What was the Anaconda Plan?
A plan by the Confederacy to break the Union in half
When you surround someone's troops and force a surrender
Trying to fight the war using anaconda snakes
A plan by the Union to break the Confederacy in half
20
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The North could return runaway slaves only when it felt like
The North did not have to return runaway slaves
The South had to return runaway slaves
The North legally had to return slaves
21
What was the most important battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Bull Run
Siege of Vicksburg
22
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln freed the slaves in the border states
Lincoln did not free any slaves
Lincoln freed the slaves everywhere
Lincoln freed the slaves in states of rebellion
23
What was the response to Nat Turner in the South and the North?
South limited Slave rights/North saw him as hero
South saw him as hero/North limited slave rights
People did not really think anything of it
Both sides felt what he did was wrong
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Why was the Battle of Gettysburg so important?
The South lost too much and never recovered
It was the single bloodiest day in US History
The Confederate had won a decisive victory against the Union
The Union lost the battle to the Confederacy

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