Unit 6 Civil War Quiz

The Emancipation Proclamation freed people in slavery in which states?

Northern states (Lincoln) believed that southern secession was ______.

Which event finally caused the Southern states to secede from the Union?

When the southern states seceded from the Union, they formed a country called what?

Lincoln and General Grant wanted to welcome the Conferate States back into the Union as "brothers"

What legislation provided the basis for forcing Northern citizens to assist in capturing people who escaped slavery?

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

The Emancipation Proclamation encouraged people to escape slavery and travel to the North.

The southern economy relied on cotton as one of the major cash crops.

Southern plantations relied on ________ to increase profits on their cash crops.

The Compromise of 1850 resolved the western boundary of which state?

Which side had larger population, more weapons, better technology, and more factories?

During what years was the Civil War fought?

The Northern economy was based on a factory system

Lincoln did NOT free people in slavery within the ______.

Which region wanted higher tariffs to protect their factories from foreign competition?

The belief that God gave the United States all lands to the west is known as

Sam Houston argued against Texas secession because he believed...

The Missouri Compromise admitted Maine and Montana as states into the Union.

Who became the main general of the Union Army?

Who was the Main General for the Confederate States of America?

Many people in the North were....

The economy of the South was based on what?

The ________ states believed in States Rights and that they had the power to secede from the Union.

Sectionalism was NOT a cause of the Civil War.

Lincoln was willing to allow slavery to continue, if it would keep the Union together.

The Emancipation Proclamation caused __________ to stop supporting the Confederacy, because they were against slavery.

Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?