Sectionalism and the Beginning of the Civil War

Question 1

What marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 2

After the Compromise of 1850 slavery in the territory gained in the Mexican Session was chosen

Accepted Answer

By Popular Sovereignty

Question 3

Why did the North have a higher population than the South?

Accepted Answer

Urbanization brought on by Industrialization

Question 4

What was the title of the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe (inspired Northern Abolition)?

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 5

Why did the South object to California being added to the Union?

Accepted Answer

It would offset the balance in the Senate

Question 6

Which city was vital to both sides, that gives control of all trade on the Mississippi River?

Accepted Answer

New Orleans LA

Question 7

What years was the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

1861 - 1865

Question 8

What was at the center of the Nullification Crisis?

Accepted Answer

State could declare a federal law unconstitutional

Question 9

What was a direct result of the cotton gin?

Accepted Answer

Slavery increases in the South

Question 10

Why did the South secede when Lincoln was elected?

Accepted Answer

His victory was a threat to their way of life

Question 11

Which law was passed to help slaveholders get their escaped slaves back?

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 12

What constitutional issue was brought up when states started to secede?

Accepted Answer

States' Rights

Question 13

What did the Monroe Doctrine state?

Accepted Answer

Europe cannot colonize the Americas

Question 14

What event sparked Southern Secession?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln's Election as President

Question 15

What was the goal of the Abolitionists?

Accepted Answer

to ban slavery

Question 16

What was the tension between the North and South (like slavery and economic differences)?

Accepted Answer

Sectionalism

Question 17

Who was the General who became a hero at the First Battle of Bull Run?

Accepted Answer

Stonewall Jackson

Question 18

Which was NOT a strength of the North?

Accepted Answer

Superior Generals

Question 19

What was the North's strategy to choke out the South's Economy by blockades and division?

Accepted Answer

Anaconda Plan

Question 20

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 21

Who was an aggressive General for the North who Lincoln couldn't spare from the war?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 22

What was a direct result of Industrialization?

Accepted Answer

Urbanization

Question 23

What does rifling the barrel of a gun do to firearms?

Accepted Answer

Makes them more accurate and deadly

Question 24

What two innovations were responsible for higher death and casualty rates?

Accepted Answer

Rifling and Minie Ball

Question 25

What was one result of Dred Scott v. Sanford?

Accepted Answer

Africans could never become U.S. citizens

Question 26

Which state wanted to be added in the Compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 27

What was significant of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Accepted Answer

Slavery could be chosen by Popular Sovereignty

Question 28

How did the colonists govern before the French and Indian War?

Accepted Answer

Self Government

Question 29

Who is portrayed as a hero in this painting?

Accepted Answer

John Brown

Question 30

What was the bloodiest day in American History? 25,000 were dead or wounded.

Accepted Answer

Antietam

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