Civil War Quiz Review

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  1. 3. The South had better ____________________ than the North, so they generally (pun intended) made wiser tactical decisions.
  2. 5. This idea was a part of the strategy of both sides in the Civil War, partially because of the more deadly technology that was now available.
  3. 6. Fought in Pennsylvania, it was one of the two major turning point battles of the Civil War that turned the tide in favor of the North.
  4. 7. This Union strategy involved blockading Southern ports and waiting for them to run out of resources.
  5. 11. This Supreme Court case increased sectionalism when the court refused to free an enslaved African American who had lived in a free state for several years.
  6. 13. This executive order changed the purpose of the war from being a war to preserve the union to being a war to end slavery. It also allowed free African Americans to serve in the Union military.
  7. 14. The North's _________________ was more than twice that of the South, meaning the North had far more soldiers to throw at the war.
  8. 16. After Lincoln won the election of 1860, the South seceded because they believed that they didn't have enough political power to prevent ____________________.
  9. 17. Fought for control of the Mississippi River, it was one of the two major turning point battles of the Civil War that turned the tide in favor of the North.
  10. 18. This first major battle of the Civil War showed the North that the war would not be fast or easy and that it would take a large, well-trained army to defeat the Confederacy.
  11. 19. The Compromise of 1850 included the idea that California would become a free state, a new fugitive slave law, the slave trade being outlawed in _______________________, and popular sovereignty in the New Mexico Territory.
  12. 20. Lincoln suspended this right for anyone in the North who resisted conscription.
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  1. 1. To formally break away from one's country.
  2. 2. The primary effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  3. 4. The South had about half the amount of _______________ that the North had, meaning that they were less able to move their armies around.
  4. 8. The North had far more _________________ than the South, meaning they had far more supplies available.
  5. 9. A book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that increased sectionalism by making Northerners see enslaved people as people and not a far-away idea.
  6. 10. This law made Northerners get directly involved in the practice of slavery by making them slave catchers, and they didn't like it.
  7. 12. The location where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.
  8. 15. The murderer of a pro-slavery family in Kansas and the leader of the raid on Harper's Ferry that contributed significantly to the secession of the South.