Civil War

This 1857 Supreme Court ruling declared that slaves are property and not citizens therefore they had no rights.

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Antietam

Why did southern states feel threatened by the election of 1860?

• The South feared that slavery would be abolished throughout the nation.

• The South feared that Democrats would gain control of Congress.

• The South feared that slaves would be given citizenship rights and sure for their freedom.

• The South feared that the new president would prohibit slavery in the western territories.

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature.

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts.

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories.

• Tension among the populations of northern and southern states increased.

-The Missouri Compromise

-The Compromise of 1850

-The Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should the U.S. expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the outcome of the Civil war?

• The alignment of foreign allies with the Union or with the Confederacy

• Economic differences between the Union and the Confederacy

• The amount of military training given to Union forces and Confederacy forces

• Religious differences between the Union and the Confederacy

Union commander who used "total war" strategy to destroy Georgia.

• Robert E. Lee

• William T. Sherman

• George McClellan

• Winfield Scott

What document signed by Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves on January 1, 1863, in the states that were still in rebellion?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• The Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following is not considered an abolitionist?

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

What was Lincoln's main goal for going to war with the south?

• To preserve the Union

• To bring an ending to slavery

• To punish the south for seceding from the Union

• To join forces with Europe to end slavery