Causes of the Civil War
What was the name of the purchase from France in 1803 that doubled the size of the United States?
What is the Louisiana Purchase.
In the Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision 1857, the court ruled that slaves were not citizens but were ____________.
What is property.
What was the name of the Union naval plan to blockade southern ports and drive up the Mississippi River to divide the Confederacy in two?
What is the Anaconda Plan.
What was the name of the three-day battle in Pennsylvania in which the Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee could not continue on the offense and was a major turning point during the Civil War?
What is Gettysburg.
Who became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Who is Andrew Johnson
In The Missouri Compromise of 1820 what state was admitted to the Union as a free state while Missouri was admitted as a slave state?
What is Maine
What is the name for someone who is opposed to slavery?
What is an abolitionist.
What event led up the deep southern states to secede (break away) from the Union?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln.
What is the bloodiest single day battle during the Civil War?
What is Antietam.
What was the name of the group of Republicans that gained control of Congress after the Civil War and wanted harsh punishments for the south and wanted full citizenship and voting rights for African Americans?
What is Radical Republicans.
What state was admitted to the union in the Compromise of 1850?
What is California.
What was a provision the Compromise of 1850 that stated passed laws in the North requiring them to return runaway slaves to the South?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act.
What event led to the upper southern states to secede (break away) from the Union?
What is the fall of Fort Sumter
Where did General Lee (Confederacy) surrender to General Grant (Union) ending the Civil War?
What is Appomattox.
What was the name of the system that kept newly freed African Americans in a cycle of poverty in agriculture?
What is sharecropping or debt peonage.
In the Compromise of 1850 how would people in the territories taken from the Mexican American War decide on the issue of slavery?
What is popular sovereignty.
Which of the following did the Dred Scott decision declare unconstitutional?
A. The Compromise of 1850.
B. The Missouri Compromise of 1820.
C. The Kansas Nebraska Act.
What is B The Missouri Compromise.
What is the name of the southern slave states that remained loyal to the Union?
What is the border states.
What is the name of the battle where the Union took control of the Mississippi completing the Anaconda plan?
What is Vicksburg.
What were the name of the laws made in the South after the Black Codes that established racial segregation in the South?
What is Jim Crow Laws.
What are the three S's that are causes of the Civil War?
What is slavery, states' rights and sectionalism.
What is the name of the abolitionist that killed proslavery settlers in Kansas then led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
Who is John Brown.
What is the name of Lincolns proclamation that said that on Jan. 1, 1863, all slaves in the states of rebellion would be free?
What is Emancipation Proclamation.
Which of the following was the largest Civil War battle that took place in Florida?
A. Battle of Vicksburg
B. Battle of Gainesville
C. Battle of Cedar Key
D. Battle of Olustee
What is D Battle of Olustee
Name three ways Jim Crow laws in the South kept African Americans from voting.
What is grandfather clauses, literacy tests and poll taxes.