Abeka 8th Grade History Quiz 18
When did the Civil War begin?
1861
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
Who was a former slave that became one of the leaders of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who presented the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Who led an uprising in Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
Which bill proposed the organization of two territories west of the Mississippi that could determine their status as slave or free through popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who proposed the Freeport Doctrine?
Stephen A. Douglas
Who helped win the first Battle of Bull Run for the South?
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson