Unit 3B Sectionalism and the Civil War Review

A historian would find this document most useful for

• Investigating the outcomes and impact of the American Civil War on both the North and the South 

• Predicting whether the North or the South would lose the first battle of the Civil War

• Attempting to prove that the South had an economic advantage over the North at the start of the Civil War

• Studying the economic and social differences between the North and South at the start of the Civil War 

Which of the following claims is supported by both documents 1 and 2?

• The Missouri Compromise allowed Maine to be admitted as a slave state, and Missouri as a free state.

• The Missouri Compromise allowed citizens to vote on whether their state would be a free or slave state

• The Missouri Compromise settled the debate over expanding slavery into the territories until the U.S. Civil War in 1861. 

• The Missouri Compromise divided the nation into Northern free states and Southern slave states.

According to the author, which of these was the most direct result of the Dred Scott decision?

• The Abolition movement was sparked in the Southern states

• Abraham Lincoln’s election to the Presidency in 1860

• The Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy

• The Supreme Court overturning the Dred Scott decision 

Which key event influenced the writing of the document above?

• Confederate victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run 

• The surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee

• Mass casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg 

• Mass casualties at the Battle at Antietam 

According to the author, the Dred Scott decision was a turning point  in American politics because

• The decision further divided the North and the South in the debate over slavery

• The decision forced the North and the South to compromise on slavery

• The decision changed the Republican party’s stance on slavery

• The decision encouraged Americans to vote against Lincoln in the election of 1860

Which claim is supported by both Documents 1 and 2?

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin scared pro-slavery critics 

• Harriet Beecher Stowe influenced President Lincoln

• Harriet Beecher Stowe was an influential abolitionist

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin painted an inaccurate picture of slavery 

In which order did the pre Civil War compromises occur?

• Kansas Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850, Missouri Compromise

• Missouri Compromise, Kansas Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act

According to Document 2, what was a major effect of the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• More Americans learned how to read in order to read the book 

• Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States

• The Abolitionist movement began across the United States 

• Harriet Beecher Stowe became a figure in the women’s suffrage movement

The intended audience of this poster was most likely

• Congressmen voting on the Emancipation Proclamation in the Confederacy government

• Enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy 

• Citizens of all races in the Confederacy and the Union during the Civil War 

• Free African Americans in the North who wanted to join the Union in the Civil War 

Which generalization is supported by the information in the chart?

• The North had greater economic strength than the South 

• The South would be better able to transport an army than the North

• The South exported more manufactured goods than the North 

• The North would have more difficulty supplying an army than the South