Slavery, Compromises & National Tensions
What compromise temporarily balanced the admission of free and slave states into the Union?
Missouri Compromise
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Fort Sumter
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer should mention freeing enslaved people in Confederate-held territory
What term describes the 19th-century belief in the expansion of U.S. territory to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
Briefly describe the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the anti-slavery movement.
Answer should mention its influence on public opinion
Name a Union general.
Answers could include Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, etc.
What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates about?
Answer should mention the issue of slavery's expansion
Explain the significance of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision.
Answer should mention the denial of citizenship to enslaved people and its impact on the slavery debate
Name two other significant figures in the abolitionist movement besides Stowe
Answers could include Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, etc
Name a Confederate general
Answers could include Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, etc.
Explain one significant challenge Lincoln faced during his presidency
Answers could include maintaining Union unity, managing the war effort, etc
Describe the events and consequences of "Bleeding Kansas."
Answer should include the violence and its role in escalating sectional tensions.
Briefly describe the significance of the Battle of Shiloh
Answer should mention the high casualties and its impact on the war's course