US History 8th Unit 10 The Civil War STAAR

things that tried to prevent the Civil War from happening

• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas/Nebraska Act

• Kansas/Nebraska

• States Rights, Sectionalism, Secession & Slavery

• Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia- Lee surrenders to Grant

What act allowed individual states to vote on slavery (popular sovereignty) caused fighting?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Kansas/Nebraska

What Supreme Court case declared slaves as property?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Brown v. Board of Ed

• Gibbons v. Ogden

What happened immediately after the election of 1860 (Lincoln)?

• South Carolina secedes

• Lincoln was assassinated

• Shay's Rebellion

• Whiskey Rebellion

Major Causes of the Civil War

• Emancipation Proclamation, Amendment 13

• States Rights, Sectionalism, Secession & Slavery

• Election of Andrew Jackson and Shooting of Aaron Burr

• Chicken Nuggets, Mac-N-Cheese, chocolate shakes

Who viewed secession as unconstitutional, wanted to preserve the Union?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Pierre Beauregard

Who was the main Union General during the Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

Who was the Confederate/South President who believed strongly in states rights?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

Who was the main Confederate General?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

What was the First Battle of the Civil War?

• 2nd Bull Run

• Antietam

• Fort Sumter South Carolina

• Shiloh