5 Written Questions

1. 1863, Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins
2. This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas to try to make it either free or slave.
3. loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
4. General of the Confederates (South)
5. U.S. statesmen, 16th president. Led Union to victory in Civil War. Assassinated. Sometimes called "Honest Abe".

5 Matching Questions

1. Dred Scot Case
2. turning point
3. Compromise of 1850
4. Gettysburg Address
5. Ulysses S. Grant

1. a Landmark Supreme Court case in which the Missouri Compromise is found unconstitutional, Congress cannot place bans on slavery as it is the same effect as removing property without due process of law under the 6th Amendment, power must be left tot he states, and African Americans are not citizens.
2. b speech by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, key ideas were liberty, equality, and democratic ideas; purpose of war was to portect those ideas
3. c Union military commander who won victories when others had failed and defeated Lee
4. d a moment in history that marks a decisive change, change of who is winning the war
5. e California is free, Fugitive Slave Act passed, popular soverignity used in Utah and New Mexico territories to settle the issue of slavery

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Type of war in which an army destroys its opponent's ability to fight by attacking civilian and economic, as well as military, targets.
   1. secession
   2. Fort Sumter
   3. sectionalism
   4. total war
2. sequence of violent events involving Free-Staters (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" elements that took place in Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri between roughly 1854 and 1858 attempting to influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state
   1. turning point
   2. Jefferson Davis
   3. Bleeding Kansas
   4. Dred Scot Case
3. rights and powers independent of the federal government
   1. Harper's Ferry
   2. states' rights
   3. Uncle Tom's Cabin
   4. secession
4. the presidential election of 1860 was won by Abraham Lincoln, the republican candidate. He won no southern states, which angered the South sparking states to seceed from the Union.
   1. Dred Scot Case
   2. Compromise of 1850
   3. Presidential Election of 1860
   4. sectionalism
5. After the burning of Atlanta Georgia on Nov 15 1864, he marched 300 miles to savannah and arrived there December 22nd 1864, his purpose was to destroy the South's supply chain and morale
   1. Appomattox Courthouse
   2. Sherman's March to the Sea
   3. Harper's Ferry
   4. states' rights

5 True/False Questions

1. Fort Sumter → Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War, no deaths

   True        False

2. Missouri Compromise → 1820 This law allowed 2 states to enter the Union (MAINE and MISSOURI) to maintain the balance of power in the senate of free to slave states. It also banned slavery in the lands of the Louisiana Purchase, North of the 36, 30' north latitude.

   True        False

3. Jefferson Davis → loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

   True        False

4. Battle of Bull Run → 1863, Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins

   True        False

5. Battle of Gettysburg → 1863, this three day battle was the bloodiest of the entire Civil War, ended in a Union victory, and is considered the turning point of the war

   True        False