Manifest Destiny & Civil War Review

Question 1

The Compromise of 1850 involved all of these EXCEPT...

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New Mexico and Utah being slave states

Question 2

This woman wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which condemned slavery...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 3

Who was the President of the Confederacy in 1861?

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Jefferson Davis

Question 4

A specific concern with local issues, at the expense of the well-being of the Nation is called

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Sectionalism

Question 5

In 1821, what new country won its independence from Spain?

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Mexico

Question 6

Which political party was born in 1854 and wanted to get rid of slavery?

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Republicans

Question 7

American Expansion into Mexican territory results in all these states EXCEPT...

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Florida

Question 8

These laws were passed in response to the Fugitive Slave Act...

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Personal Liberty Laws

Question 9

Which event resulted in the forced movement of Native Americans from Florida to Oklahoma?

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Trail of Tears

Question 10

Voters (not Congress) having the right to decide whether or not to ban slavery is called...

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Popular Sovereignty

Question 11

These laws would require citizens to catch and capture runaways in the North...

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Fugitive Slave Act

Question 12

Where did John Brown carry out his raid in 1859?

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Harper Ferry's

Question 13

This is the name of the fort in West Texas where everyone was massacred by Mexican soldiers...

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Alamo

Question 14

Who did the Republicans nominate in 1860 as their main candidate who would help ban slavery?

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 15

The separation away from a political membership (as in southern states leaving the USA) is...

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secession

Question 16

By allowing the idea of slavery in Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act might undo the...

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Missouri Compromise

Question 17

This system allowed for many enslaved black people to escape North...

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Underground Railroad

Question 18

Who is this Man?

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 19

Which state is remembered as the "Lone Star Republic" in the mid 1800s?

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Texas

Question 20

All of these decisions resulted from 1857 Dred Scott decision EXCEPT for...

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Black people were sent North

Question 21

This agreement resulted in the USA gaining the top one-third of Mexico...

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 22

Proslavery settlers who moved into Kansas from Missouri to support slavery were called...

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Border Ruffians

Question 23

This black woman single-handedly assisted hundreds of enslaved people to freedom...

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Harriet Tubman

Question 24

All of these were effects of the California Gold Rush EXCEPT...

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California allows slavery

Question 25

This is the belief that God wanted the USA to own all of North America...

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Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny & Civil War Review

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