Civil War Quiz - Causes, States & Leaders

Before the Civil War, the economy of South was primarily based on ______________

• manufacturing
• mining
• agriculture
• trade

What issue are these two gentlemen talking about in 1860?

• immigration
• nullification
• westward expansion
• slavery

What region of the United States was a strong supporter of states’ rights before the Civil War?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Popular sovereignty means _________

• people should decide the slavery issue
• the new territories should be free states
• the new territories should be slave states
• the federal government would determine the issue

The third compromise in the diagram —

• allowed Texas to enter the union as a slave state
• allowed Missouri to enter the union as a free state
• allowed California to enter the union as a free state
• allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

Which compromise admitted California as a free state, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C and allowed the Southwest territories to decide slavery for themselves

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Three-Fifths Compromise

The secession of the Southern States and the attack on Fort Sumter in 1861 came right after ___________

• Abraham Lincoln’s election
• Jefferson Davis’s election
• Robert E. Lee leaving the Union Army
• the Emancipation Proclamation

What best completes the statement made by Abraham Lincoln?

• nation united
• nation divided
• growing nation
• reformed nation

Following Lincoln’s election, the southern states __________ the Union.

• joined
• remined loyal to
• seceded from
• voted for

This picture illustrates which event that started the Civil War

• Confederate attack on Fort Sumter
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Missouri Compromise
• Lincoln's election