Causes
What was the first battle that began the Civil War after the attack on Fort Sumter?
Battle of Bull Run.
The Missouri Compromise allowed which state to become a free state and which to become a slave state?
Free = Maine
What was the term for allowing territories to vote on whether they would have slavery or not?
Popular sovereignty.
Name 4 advantages that the North had for the war.
Railroad track
Manufacturing
Population
Money in Banks
Weapons
What were "border states"?
Union states that had slavery.
The Prigg Decision in the Supreme Court angered Southerners, what made them angry about this ruling?
It stated that Northerners did not have to be responsible for catching and returning runaway slaves.
Why did the northerners oppose popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories?
Slavery was already made illegal in those parts due to past legislation and compromises. This would allow slavery to exist if voted upon.
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis.
Sales and income taxes.
Name 3 conditions of the Compromise of 1850.
CA became a free state.
Utah and New Mexico became slave territories.
South got a harsher Fugitive Slave Law.
Public sale of slaves was ended in D.C.
Border ruffians attacked and intimidated voters.
They cast illegal votes.
What was the legislation that Lincoln created to free slaves in rebelling states?
The Emancipation Proclamation
Black soldiers fought for the Union army, but they were not treated equally. Name one way this was clear.
Suspended writ of habeas corpus.
Name 3 abolitionists covered in the book.
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
David Walker
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case that made Northerners angry? List at least 2 reasons.
Dred would remain a slave.
Blacks were not citizens, could not vote, had no rights.
Missouri Compromise was illegal in not allowing slave owners to take their property into free areas.
How did Lincoln feel about slavery in the existing states, which was different than how he felt about it in the territories.
He did not like slavery but was not opposed to states keeping it. He did not want it in the territories.
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
Appomattox Court House
How did the wealthy get out of fighting in the war if drafted?
Sent a substitute
Owned a lot of slaves