Civil War Review

Question 1

Who won the election of 1860?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 2

What was a direct result of Abraham Lincoln being elected as president in the election of 1860?

Accepted Answer

secession from the South

Question 3

The Fugitive Slave Act was a part of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 4

This required Northern states to return runaway slaves.

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 5

Why did Sherman want to destroy Atlanta?

Accepted Answer

cut off supply lines and demoralize southerners

Question 6

Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea was led by who?

Accepted Answer

William Sherman

Question 7

Defintion: when a state decides to leave or withdraw from the Union.

Accepted Answer

secession

Question 8

The Georgia Platform was about what?

Accepted Answer

Georgia accepting Compromise of 1850

Question 9

The Civil War was fought from 1861-1865.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Where was the first battle of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 11

Who sued for his freedom and lost because the Supreme Court ruled he was not a citizen?

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott

Question 12

Definition: the idea that states have the right not to follow a federal law

Accepted Answer

nullification

Question 13

Who won the Battle of Chickamauga?

Accepted Answer

Confederacy

Question 14

What document stated that all slaves would be free?

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclomation

Question 15

Why did the North put a tariff on European goods?

Accepted Answer

to force the South to buy goods from the North

Question 16

What did the South believe they had the right to nullify?

Accepted Answer

any law they did not agree with, tariffs

Question 17

What was the name of the prison camp that held Union soldiers in Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Andersonville

Question 18

California enters the U.S. as a free state and Fugitive Slave Act was passed

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 19

What was it when the Union used naval ships to prevent the south from continuing to trade?

Accepted Answer

Union Blockade

Question 20

Missouri entered the US as a slave state and Maine as a free state

Accepted Answer

Missouri Compromise

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