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Chapter 8:  The Civil War in the Indian Country



True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
 

 1. 

Most southerners owned slaves before the Civil War.
 

 2. 

Lincoln had no support in the South in the election of 1860.
 

 3. 

Indian Territory joined the Confederacy during the Civil War.
 

 4. 

The Civil War divided the tribes living in Indian Territory.
 

 5. 

All of the Loyal Creek were Creek who wanted to support the Union.
 

 6. 

During the Civil War, Kansas was the first state to have an organized unit of African Americans.
 

 7. 

Honey Springs was a principal Confederate supply depot.
 

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 
 
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 1. 

According to the map, what state had the largest number of electoral votes in 1860?
A)
California
B)
New York
C)
Ohio
D)
Pennsylvania
 

 2. 

According to the map, which candidate received the electoral votes from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
A)
John Bell
B)
John Breckinridge
C)
Stephen A. Douglas
D)
Abraham Lincoln
 

 3. 

Which statement best describes the significance of the Dred Scott case?
A)
Congress could no longer prevent slavery in the territories.
B)
Congress could no longer maintain a balance of free and slave states.
C)
Congress could relocate slaves to specific territories as it had done with Indians.
D)
Congress could require that a territory have a certain number of residents in order to become a state.
 

 4. 

Which statement best explains why southerners believed their way of life was threatened in the 1850s?
A)
Northerners controlled Congress.
B)
Hurricanes destroyed many large plantations.
C)
Too many slaves were escaping to the North.
D)
New machines changed the way work was done.
 

 5. 

Which position was NOT included in the platform of the Republican Party in the election of 1860? 
A)
opposition to slavery
B)
support of protective tariffs
C)
support of a transcontinental railroad
D)
opposition to free western homesteads
 

 6. 

Which tribe exhibited the strongest resistance to signing a treaty to support the Confederate States of America?
A)
Cherokee
B)
Chickasaw
C)
Osage
D)
Seneca
 

 7. 

What fort replaced Fort Davis when it was abandoned by the Confederates?
A)
Fort Arbuckle
B)
Fort Gibson
C)
Fort McCulloch
D)
Fort Smith
 

 8. 

Who was the Confederate leader who surrendered at Appomattox Court House?
A)
Douglas Cooper
B)
Ulysses S. Grant
C)
Robert E. Lee
D)
Stand Watie
 

Matching
 
 
Match the person with the phrase that describes each.
A)
John Breckinridge
I)
Samuel Bell Maxey
B)
James Blunt
J)
Ben McCulloch
C)
John C. Calhoun
K)
Albert Pike
D)
Douglas Cooper
L)
William Quantrill
E)
Samuel Curtis
M)
Earl Van Dorn
F)
Jefferson Davis
N)
Stand Watie
G)
Henry Lane
O)
Daniel Webster
H)
Abraham Lincoln
 

 1. 

leader of Union troops at Pea Ridge
 

 2. 

proposed Compromise of 1850
 

 3. 

Southern Democrat candidate for president of the United States in 1860
 

 4. 

leader of Cherokee who supported Confederates
 

 5. 

South Carolina senator who supported states’ rights
 



 
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