Antebellum Era/civil war

Question 0

In what case/ year was the line that determined which states would be slave states or not was named unconstitutional?

Answer 0

Dred Scott Case in 1857

Question 1

What Compromise added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and Missouri’s southern boundary was extended into the Louisiana Territory and Above the line slavery was not allowed?

Answer 1

Missouri compromise

Question 2

What is The best and most important part of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 2

It maintained the balance between slave and free states.

Question 3

What decision led southerners to believe that the issue of slavery in the territories was settle and Congress could not limit slavery in the territories?

Answer 3

Dred Scott decision

Question 4

What is the belief that one region is superior to another?

Answer 4

Sectionalism

Question 5

In what decision were slaves classified as property without human right and when The Supreme Court disappointed abolitionists by ruling that slaves were not citizens?

Answer 5

Dred Scott Decision

Question 6

What used popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue in the territories and where Residents were allowed to vote to decide if Kansas would be a free or slave state?

Answer 6

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 7

Whose election led Southern states to consider secession?

Answer 7

Lincoln’s

Question 8

Who received votes only from the North, but still won the 1860 presidential election?

Answer 8

Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

In what did the North received California as a free state and the South received the Fugitive Slave Law?

Answer 9

Compromise of 1850

Question 10

Who tried and what was the attempt to gain support among Georgians for the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 10

by Georgia politicians(Robert Toombs, Alexander Stephens and Howell Cobb) and it was called the Georgia Platform

Question 11

Who believed that states should have the power to decide issues such as slavery?

Answer 11

The south

Question 12

The power of state governments over that of the national government is known as what?

Answer 12

States’ rights

Question 13

What is the belief that southern states had the right to nullify (make invalid, not follow) any federal law they thought was unconstitutional?

Answer 13

Nullification

Question 14

Who argued that Georgia should not secede from the Union and said Georgia should not go against the Constitution and should accept Lincoln’s election and Therefore, he was a strange choice for Vice-President of the Confederacy?

Answer 14

Alexander Stephens

Question 15

What made southern states consider to secede?

Answer 15

Lincoln’s election

Question 16

Who won with only votes from the north but still won the 1869 election?

Answer 16

Abraham Lincoln

Question 17

What was the civil war against?

Answer 17

Union(north) VS Confederate (south)

Question 18

Why does the south secede?

Answer 18

Lincoln’s election

Question 19

Who was the first state to secede?

Answer 19

South Carolina

Question 20

When does the civil war begin?

Answer 20

The Civil War begins with the Confederate attack on Ft. Sumter, South Carolina.

Question 21

What was known as the Heart of the Confederacy in the Civil War because it provided supplies (food, ammunition, etc.) for the Confederate war effort?

Answer 21

Georgia

Question 22

What was The bloodiest battle and the bloodiest day in American history was and who won?

Answer 22

Battle of Antietam and draw but slight Union victory

Question 23

What was the turning point in the war?

Answer 23

Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania

Question 24

What was fought because each side wanted to control the railroads at Chattanooga, The Union was temporarily pushed back and The Confederate commander did not follow up his victory?

Answer 24

Battle of Chickamauga

Question 25

Who led the Union Army in its capture of Atlanta. Much of the city would be burned by the Union Army before it left for its “March to the Sea” which also helped get Lincoln reelected?

Answer 25

General Sherman

Question 26

Who demoralized Georgia in his “March to the Sea”, he wanted to end civilian support for the war and Railroads, crops, supplies and homes were burned by Union soldiers?

Answer 26

General Sherman

Question 27

Who was the president of the confederacy?

Answer 27

Jefferson Davis

Question 28

What was the union strategy where a key part of this the plan was the blockading of Southern ports And blockade caused a shortage of goods and higher prices?

Answer 28

Anaconda plan

Question 29

What was the confederate strategy where The South believed Great Britain and France would fight the North to receive Southern cotton?

Answer 29

King cotton diplomacy

Question 30

Where did the emancipation proclamation free slaves?

Answer 30

Only in rebelling states in the civil war. Not in Missouri or Kentucky which were slave states in the union.

Question 31

What was Lincoln’s famous speech and what did it state?

Answer 31

Gettysburg Address, “all men are created equal”

Question 32

Who was the south’s leading general and the north’s?

Answer 32

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant

Question 33

What was the prison where Thousands of Union prisoners died and the commander of the prison was executed at the end of the war?

Answer 33

Andersonville in GA(confederate prison)