Causes of the Civil War Test Review

Who led the massacre at Pottawatomie Creek and the raid on Harper's Ferry?

Why did South Carolina seceed from the Union?

What was the violent fighting between pro and anti slavery groups in the west called?

What was the informal network of abolitionists who helped slaves escape to freedom known as?

Who was the abolitionist that massacred pro slavery settlers in Kansas?

Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?

What law written by Stephen Douglas proposed popular sovereignty in two new territories?

After Lincoln's victory, what course of action did he promise the country?

Who won the election of 1860 becoming the 16th president?

Who wrote the Kansas Nebraska Act?

 Proposed law that let the south know it was important for them to keep balance in the Senate.

Which political party was made of Northern Whigs and Antislavery Democrats?

What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise being unconstitutional?

Which of the following did Henry Clay propose?

Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1850?

This policy allowed voters to determine if they wanted slavery in their territories.

Why were immigrants in the north opposed to the expansion of slavery?

What proposed law would have prohibited slavery in any land won from Mexico?

What was the political group whose only goal was keeping slavery out of new territories?

What was Stephen Douglas's belief about the issue of slavery?

Who was the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

What was the basis of the Kansas Nebraska Act and its use of popular sovereignty?

Why did Dred Scott sue his slave owners?

Letting people decide if they want to be a slave or a free territory is an example of:

How many states immediately seceeded from the Union after South Carolina?

This law required that run away slaves be returned to their masters.

When Lincoln won the election of 1860 what were southerners convinced of?

What did Harriet Tubman create to help runaway slaves reach the north and Canada?

Henry Clay's plan that was made in order to admit California to the union as a free state.

The Confederate Constitution protected each state's right to what?