1. Civil War Review

2. Question
Laws that established literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses were passed by Southern states to…

3. Answer
Limit the rights of formerly enslaved people.

4. Question Which heading best completes the partial outline below?
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Congress Passes Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown leads attack at Harpers Ferry

5. Answer
Events leading to Civil War.

6. Question
What is an example of a primary source from the Civil War?

7. Answer
A letter from the wife of a soldier during the war.

8. Question North South Industrial Agricultural More Cities Mainly rural
Many factories
Few factories
Slavery widely opposed
Slavery widely supported
Which Conclusion related to the Civil War can be drawn from the information on this chart?

9. Answer
Sectionalism was based on social and economic differences.

10. Question
What was the immediate cause of the secession of Southern states fro the Union prior to the start of the Civil War?

11. Answer
Election of Abraham Lincoln

12. Question
The Underground Railroad was developed in the 1840s in order to

13. Answer
Help runaway slaves escape to freedom

14. Question
Which Civil War event occurred first?

15. Answer
Firing on Fort Sumter

16. Question
Which abolitionist leader was a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad?

17. Answer
Harriet Tubman

18. Question
By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln

19. Answer
Broadened the Union war goals to include ending slavery.

20. Question
Abolition, the Underground Railroad, and the Dred Scott decision would all be included in a discussion of

21. Answer
Slavery

22. Question
The election of 1860 showed how

23. Answer
Deeply divided the nation was over slavery.

24. Question

25. Question
In the election of 1860, which region of the country supported John C. Breckenridge?

26. Answer
The South

27. Question
Which concept is most clearly illustrated by the election results shown in this map?

28. Answer
Sectionalism

29. Question
An issue that divided the North and South and led to Civil war the

30. Answer
Balance of power between the states and the federal government.

31. Question
Based on the image, what was the purpose of the Anaconda Plan?

32. Answer
To surround the Southern states and cut off trade.

33. Question
Based on the location of North Carolina, how would the farmers in the state be affected ?

34. Answer
The plan would prevent farmers from shipping goods overseas.

35. -Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Question
“One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute… Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this… In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.”
-Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
According to Abraham Lincoln, what was the only major disagreement between the North and the South?

36. Answer
Whether or not the south should be able to leave the Union

37. Question
Our present position… illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish a government whenever it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established. Through many years of controversy with our late associates, the Northern States, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquility and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice we have resorted to separation, and henceforth our energies must be devoted to the conducting of our own affairs, and perpetuating the Confederacy we have formed…”
-Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Address, February 18, 1861
According to Jefferson Davis, why did the South secede from the Union?

38. Answer
People in the Southern states were being denied their rights.

39. Question
In his address, Lincoln compares the country to a married couple getting divorced for what purpose?

40. Answer
To show how much more difficult it would be to split and separate a country

41. Question
In his address, Jefferson Davis states that by leaving the Union, the South “illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed…” What is he suggesting?

42. Answer
He suggests that it is the right of the people to change the government when they no longer agree on how it is operating.

43. Question
Who is Lincoln referring to when he says “dissatisfied fellow countrymen”?

44. Answer
Citizens in the South

45. Question
What does Davis say the South must do next?

46. Answer
Continue to build their new country

47. Question
The phrase “Bleeding Kansas” refers to the clashes between…

48. Answer
Pro Slavery and Anti Slavery groups.

49. Question
As a result of the Civil War, the…

50. Answer
Federal government’s power over the States was strengthened.

51. Question
Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to…

52. Answer
Preserve the Union

53. Question
Before the Civil War, slavery expanded in the South rather than in the North because…

54. Answer