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| Question | Answer |
| What event caused southern border states (including North Carolina) to secede? | Fort Sumter |
| What led to Southern resentment of the North because they felt like it was based on lies? | Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| What event destroyed the Confederacy’s ability to wage War both economically and psychologically? | Sherman’s March |
| What was issued to keep Britain and France out of the American Civil War? | The Emancipation Proclamation |
| What convinced both the Union and the Confederacy that the Civil War would not be a quick war? | The Battle of Bull Run |
| What did Lincoln do to insure that the Union had a cause they could believe in? | The Gettysburg Address |
| Who had better military leadership when the Civil War began? | The Confederacy |
| Which side had better political leadership when the Civil War began? | The Union |
| Which battle is considered a turning point because it allowed the Union to control the Mississippi River? | Vicksburg |
| Which side was said to have the advantage fighting a defensive war? | The Confederacy |
| Which side had the advantage of fighting for a cause they believed in when the war began? | The Confederacy |
| Why were Southern Soldiers fighting in the war if most of them didn’t even own slaves? | Defending their homes |
| Which side had the advantage of having more infrastructure? | The Union |
| Give one advantage the North had during the Civil War. | Larger Population |
| Why did the states of the deep south to secede? | Lincoln’s election |
| What part of the Compromise of 1850 pleased the South but angered many in the North? | The Fugitive Slave Law |
| What made the Compromise of 1850 necessary? | California wanting to join as a free state |
| What political party developed in opposition to slavery prior to the Civil War? | Republican |
| What political party split itself in two over the issue of slavery before the Civil War began? | Democratic |
| What is loyalty to your region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole? | Sectionalism |
| What would many Southerners tell you the cause of the Civil War was? | States Rights |
| How did the Kansas Nebraska Act say that the issue of slavery should be decided in the territories? | Popular Sovereignty |
| What alarmed many Northerners by saying that Congress did not have the right to regulate slavery in the territories? | Dred Scott v. Sanford |
| What required free states to aid in the return of escaped slaves to the South? | Fugitive Slave law |
| Why was the Missouri Compromise first passed? | Preserve the Balance of Power |
| What was the United States first attempt to deal with the issue of slavery in the territories? | The Missouri Compromise |
| What did Lincoln say his goal was at the beginning of the Civil War? | Preserving the Union |
| Which region could have been described as rural, agricultural, slave-based economy, divided by race before the Civil War began? | The South |
| Which region could have been described as urban, industrialized, new infrastructure, many immigrants before the Civil War began? | The North |
| Which region could have been described as open land, quickly developing, new towns, economy based on small farms and mining before the Civil War began? | The West |
| Which side had a better economy and industry when the Civil war began? | The North |
| What was the North’s military strategy for the Civil War? | The Anaconda Plan |
| What battle allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation? | Antietam |
| Why did Lincoln fear that the Northern border states would secede? | They had slavery |
| Who was the President of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis |
| Who were the two most important Confederate Generals? | Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson |
| Who were the two most important Union generals? | Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman |
| What did the Emancipation Proclamation really do? | Nothing |
| Why were the Northern border states important to Lincoln? | access to Mississippi River |