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Which sequence of events correctly identifies a rise in the tensions, brining the nation closer toward armed conflict?
a) John Browns Raid ..then... Missouri Compromise
b) Compromise of 1850 ...then...Dred Scott decision
c) Kansas Nevraska Act ...then...Admission of California to statehood
d) 'Bleeding Kansas' ...then...Admission of Maine and Missouri to statehood

Which event was the catalyst for the secession of the first Southern states in 1861/
a) passage of a higher protective tariff
b) issuance of the Emancipation Proclomation
c) the election of Abraham Lincoln as President
d) the shipment of Union supplies to Fort Sumter

Why did the Union impose a naval blockade on the South during the Civil War?
a) to promote doemstic industries in the South
b) to strangle the shipment of supplies to the COnfederacy
c) to motivate enslaved African Americans to migrate to the North
d) to encourage Union sympathizers to persuade their states to rejoin the Union

Which of these strategies was NOT used by the South to counter the North's advantages?
a) The South would invade and capture major Union cities
b) The South would fight a defensive war on its own terrain
c) The South would use it's pool of talented military experience
d) The South would conscript troops and print its own paper money

What was the significant impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?
a) Slaves of the Northern States were freed
b) The war became a moral contest over slavery
c) Slaves in border states were immediately freed
d) African Americans were admitted into the Confederate army

What were the major consequences of the Civil War?
a) the end of slavery and a strengthening of the power of the federal government
b) recognition of the rights of states to leave the Union and to nullify federal laws
c) an end to racial discrimination and establishment of social equality throughout the nation
d) the abolition of slavery in all Northern sates and in all federal territories north of 36 degrees north

Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War?
a) Southerners feared that the Northerners intended to abolish slavery
b) Southerners wanted a free hand in supressing local slave revolts
c) The Dred Scott decision led Northern state officials to defy federal law
d) Norhterners opposed the shipment of Southern cotton to Great Britain

Which view was held by most Southerners of the secession crisis of 1860-1861?
a) Revolution against properly elected officials is never justified.
b) Since the Union was created by the states, they could leave it at any time.
c) The Union was formed by the American people, and not by individual states.
d) Because of their economic connections with the North, secession would be disastrous.

Look at the map in the blue book on page 6. At the time just before the Civil War, most of the land in the (????) was still not part of the U.S. yet.
a) North
b) East
c) South
d) West

Look at the cartoon on page 22 of the blue book. Read the captions, look at the bottom of both sides, consider what you know and answer question 11 in the book.
a) A.
b) B.
c) C.
d) D.

Look at the cartoon on page 22 of the blue book. Read the captions, look at the bottom of both sides, consider what you know and answer question 12 in the book.
a) A.
b) B.
c) C.
d) D.

What was the significance of the Dred Scott Decision?
a) The Supreme Court overruled attempts by congress to limit the spread of slavery
b) The Supreme Court held that the practice of slavery was unconstituional
c) While Lincoln objected to the decision, Stephen Douglas supported it
d) Dred Scott and his wife spent the rest of their lives in slavery

What was the main reason for fighting in Florida during the Civil War?
a) Northern commanders planned to divide the South by marching right through Florida
b) The Union army wanted to prevent cattle and crops from reaching Confederate troops
c) The main southern fleet was stationed in ports along the FLorida Coast
d) Robert E. Lee, the Southern commander, owned land in FLorida

Open up a new tab and look at the cartoon at (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/e4/54/a4/e454a4ac00075714a6438cf8b45a1f64.jpg.) Who is the snakehead 'Davis' depicted in the cartoon?
a) Frederick Davis, a political writer of the time
b) Thurman Davis, the Senator of Virginia and well known secessionist
c) Jefferson Davis, the elected president of the Confederacy
d) Jim Davis, the allied commander of the confederacy at the battler of Bull Run

Open up a new tab and look at the cartoon at (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/e4/54/a4/e454a4ac00075714a6438cf8b45a1f64.jpg.) What do you think the cartoonist is saying about seccesison?
a) There are many different viewpoints from which to consider secession, centering around northern ideals verse southern ideals
b) Thoguh necessary, Secession is a difficult beast to tame, but it is possible for someone with enough will power and might
c) Secession is a difficult and treacherous political situation
d) Secession has many different heads

After the United States was torn in 2 during the Civil War, the next major part of US history is called
a) Imperialism
b) Reconstruction
c) The 2nd Industrial Revolution
d) Neoclassicism

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