Unit 11 Quiz # 1 and a few randoms too

Question 1

Henry Clay, California admitted as a free state, passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

Accepted Answer

The Compromise of 1850

Question 2

What happened to Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts after his "Crime Against Kansas" speech?

Accepted Answer

Preston Brooks nearly beat him to death with a cane

Question 3

Clues: Eli Whitney, Mass production, increased the demand for slave labor in the south

Accepted Answer

cotton gin

Question 4

Network of secret routes and safe houses to help escaped slaves reach Canada and freedom

Accepted Answer

The Underground Railroad

Question 5

What is the central issue that connects all of the "causes" of the Civil War together?

Accepted Answer

Slavery

Question 6

Social, Political, Economic differences between north and south

Accepted Answer

sectionalism

Question 7

Why did so many people move to California in in the mid 1800s?

Accepted Answer

The Gold Rush

Question 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a passionate anti slavery novel titled...

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 9

Which of the following historical figures mailed himself to freedom in a box!

Accepted Answer

Henry Brown

Question 10

Senator Stephen Douglas, divide Nebraska in 2, let the people who settle there vote on slavery

Accepted Answer

The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

Question 11

Keep the balance, Missouri slave state, Maine free state, draw a line west future territories

Accepted Answer

Missouri Compromise

Question 12

The South's worst nightmare, escaped slavery with borrowed free papers, abolitionist

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass

Questions 12