Rebels vs Yanks
North vs South
Blue vs Grey
Confederates vs Union
Conflict Within
100

  1. What state was the exception to the Missouri Compromise?

Missouri 

100

  1. What was the newly formed Republican party's main platform?

  1. Keep slavery from spreading to western territories

100

  1. In February of 1861, three months after the election of 1860, leaders from the original seven seceding states met in Montgomery, Alabama and created a new republic which they called the:

  1. Confederate States of America

100

South's Advantages

  1. Southerners were fighting on own territory

  2. The South/Confederates were led by some of nation’s best officers
100

  1. How did the South hope to finance, or pay for, their war effort?

  1. Trade with Great Britain

200

  1. To please the South, and get the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) passed, what did Douglas propose?

  1. Slavery in two new territories would be decided by popular sovereignty

200

  1. Abraham Lincoln was originally an attorney from what US state?

IL

200

  1. Delegates from the original seven succeeded states elected as president of the Confederate states?

  1. Former Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis

200

 north’s advantages

  1. Larger population

  2. More farmland

  3. More factories

200

List the four early US Union General in the Eastern theatre

  1. Irvin McDowell

  2. George McClellan

  3. Ambrose Burnside

  4. Joseph Hooker

300

  1. Many in the North found issue with Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) because it undid what?

Missouri Compromise

300

Lincoln was strongly opposed to this act and debated its author during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. What act was this?

  1. Kansas-Nebraska Act

300

  1. What happened after the attack on Fort Sumter?

  1. Lincoln declared a rebellion existed in South

300

What was the main strategy of the North?

  1. Isolate the South

300

  1. Who was the most successful Union's general in the western theater?

US Grant

400

  1. Some Antislavery Whigs and Democrats created their own party that proposed to ban slavery in all territory gained in the Mexican-American War. What was this party called? 

Free Soil

400

  1. Who carried most of the votes in the north and won the election of 1860?

Lincoln

400

  1. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln stated that he:

  1. Had no plans to abolish slavery where it already existed

400

  1. In order to achieve their main strategy, the Union employed a two pronged approach. What two things did the Union feel it needed to do in order to achieve victory? Mark all that apply.

Take control of the entire Mississippi River

Seize the Confederate capital, Richmond, VA

400

  1. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

  1. changed the legal status of enslaved African Americans in secessionist states

500

4 Parts of the Fugitive Slave Act

  1. Allowed government officials to arrest any person accused of trying to escape slavery

  2. Suspects had no right to prove they had been falsely accused in a trial

  3. All that was needed to deprive someone of his or her freedom was the word of one white person
  4. Northerners were required to help capture people trying to escape slavery if authorities requested assistance
500

  1. Who was the first state to secede from the Union?

SC

500

4 border states

  1. Delaware

  2. Kentucky

  3. Missouri

  4. Maryland

500

  1. What was the main strategy of the South?

  1. Defend Southern land until North gives up

500

  1. With the result of the Battle of Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation, British and French governments were: 

  1. discouraged from recognizing the Confederacy as an independent nation

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