The Civil War Quiz

Fill in the blank: The Supreme Court heard a case about a slave who had lived in a free state. It ruled that slaves were property and were not citizens of the U.S., therefore were not allowed to bring the case before the Supreme Court. This is known as: ________________.

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The _______________admitted California as a free state and outlawed the slave trade, but not slavery itself in Washington, D.C.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to vote to decide whether or not they would become slave or free states in the __________.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Annexation of Texas

The name of the decision that allowed Texas to be admitted to the Union as a slave state and caused the Mexican-American War was the______________.

• Dred Scott Decision

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Annexation of Texas

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

You have the feeling of ​ (a)   if you feel that your region of the country is more important than the country as a whole.​

• sectionalism
• secession

Match the following

• Escaped slave and vocal abolitionist

• Frederick Douglass

• Conductor on the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Tubman

Match the following

• Publisher of abolitionist newspaper

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Led the raid on Harper's Ferry

• Sojourner Truth

• Female African American abolitionist

• John Brown

The Emancipation Proclamation ____________

• Outlawed slavery in Washington D.C.

• Freed all African-Americans in the U.S. and the Confederacy

• Freed all enslaved African Americans in the Confederate States who were still in the war.

• Freed all enslaved African Americans in the southern and border states

The battle that is known to have started the Civil War is ​ (a)  

• Fort Sumter
• Bunker Hill
• Antietam

Which of the following states is NOT a Confederate state?

• Virginia

• Georgia

• North Carolina

• Kentucky