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Grade 8 Civil War
What was the primary issue during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that forged Lincoln into a prominent national figure?
  1. Slavery
  2. admitting Missouri into the Union
  3. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
  4. Tariff of 1832
Grade 8 Civil War
John Wilkes Booth was a lawyer.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Civil War
Union General that marched from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia destroying everything in his path.
  1. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
  2. Thomas Stonewall Jackson
  3. George C. Meade
  4. William Sherman
Grade 8 Civil War
Why did people in the North and the South have such different views about slavery?
  1. The South's economy depended on slavery, while the economy of the North did not.
  2. Most people in the South believed slavery was morally wrong.
  3. Northerners thought slavery was destroying the economy.
  4. Southerners believed slavery should be eliminated gradually, while northerners thought it should be abolished all at once.
Grade 8 Civil War
Who was the Union commander at the Battle of Fredericksburg?
  1. Ambrose Burnside
  2. Joseph Hooker
  3. George Meade
  4. U.S. Grant
  5. None of the above
Grade 8 Civil War
Which statement best describes Henry Clay's goal in proposing the Missouri Compromise?
  1. Eventually, slavery as an institution will be overturned and the slaves will all be freed.
  2. Slavery will be allowed in some northern states at the same time it is being phased out of the southern states.
  3. Northern and southern states cannot agree on a system that will satisfy them both.
  4. The balance in the Senate will be maintained by this agreement.
Grade 8 Civil War
The slave codes were
  1. rules to protect the general welfare of enslaved people.
  2. ways for enslaved people to secretly communicate with one another other.
  3. laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans.
  4. guidelines for freeing a certain number of enslaved people every year.
Grade 8 Civil War
Which of the following was a slave who learned to read, escaped to freedom in the north, and made public speeches against slavery?
  1. Horace Mann
  2. Frederick Douglass
  3. John Quincy Adams
  4. William Lloyd Garrison
Grade 8 Civil War
Who were the Union and Confederate commanders at the Battle of Bull Run?
  1. U.S. Grant and Lee
  2. Beauregard and McDowell
  3. Beauregard and Anderson
  4. Hooker and Jackson
Grade 8 Civil War
How did slaveholders generally view slaves?
  1. as fellow workers
  2. as property
  3. indentured servants
  4. equals
Grade 8 Civil War
What earned the territory of Kansas the name "bleeding Kansas"?
  1. Residents of the territory fought over whether or not Kansas should join the Union.
  2. Proslavery and antislavery forces fought violently over whether Kansas would be a free state or a slaveholding state.
  3. The territory lost a large number of soldiers during the Mexican-American War.
  4. Slave owners in the territory had a reputation for badly mistreating their slaves.
Grade 8 Civil War
Which statement best describes Henry Clay's goal in proposing the Missouri Compromise?
  1. Eventually, slavery as an institution will be overturned and the slaves will all be freed."
  2. Slavery will be allowed in some northern states at the same time it is being phased out of the southern states.
  3. Northern and southern states cannot agree on a system that will satisfy them both.
  4. "The balance in the Senate will be maintained by this agreement.
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