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Events leading to the American Civil War
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1
What effect did the Compromise of 1850 have on the city of Washington DC?
it caused the Civil War
it banned the slave trade in DC
it freed all the slaves in DC
it made them all fugitives
2
Network of people and places that assisted runaway slaves' escape to freedom was called the...
The Aboveground Railroad
Flight to Freedom Train
The Underground Subway
The Underground Railroad
3
These are laws that assisted slave catchers in their quest to capture runaway slaves.
Capture Codes
Slave Spirituals
Figurative Language
Fugitive Slave Laws
4
This radical abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in an attempt to start a slave rebellion.
William Lloyd Garrison
Dred Scott
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
5
Why did South Carolina and ten other states leave the Union to form the Confederacy (C.S.A.)?
economic, political, and social differences.
the desire to maintain slavery and expand it to western territories
the election of a Republican President
the rejection of unfair tariffs
6
What did the Supreme Court say about slaves in the
Dred Scott
case?
Slaves were citizens, not property.
Slaves were free in only free states.
Slaves were free in all free states, and slavery ended.
Slaves were property, not citizens. They cannot sue owners.
7
What political event led to the secession of South Carolina in December 1860? ("final straw")
Emancipation Proclamation of 1862
Nullification Crisis of 1836
Dred Scott Case of 1857
Election of a Republican POTUS in 1860
8
Which compromise is shown below? It created a free state (ME) and a slave state (MO).
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
9
What did Abraham Lincoln "win" after he lost the 1858 Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas?
he won a seat in the US Senate
he won national political popularity
he won the White House
he won the nomination of the Democrat Party
10
Uncle Tom's Cabin
was a best-selling book of the 1800's. Who wrote it?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Uncle Tom
Harry Truman
11
The view that people living in a territory can choose whether or not to allow slavery is called
manifest destiny
individual rights
freedom of ideas
popular sovereignty
12
A tariff is a ____________________________. It caused economic tension between North and South.
tax on imported goods
tax used for social welfare
tax on luxury items
tax collected during war
13
The belief that states have rights to do what is best for themselves and to ignore federal laws
limited government
states' rights
popular sovereignty
absolute power
14
Songs, mostly religious, sung by slaves are called...
hymns
spirit songs
spirituals
socratic seminars
15
Abolitionist who changed her name and began a
journey
to tell people the
truth
about slavery.
Harriet Tubman
Mary Todd Lincoln
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Sojourner Truth
16
The abolitionist who led over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad-new face of $20
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Harry Truman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
17
Which compromise is shown below? It added CA as a free state and a tougher fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
California Compromise
18
The Kansas-Nebraska Act basically cancelled the __ ___, allowing slavery to move north of MO.
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Law
Tariff of Abominations
Compromise of 1850
19
Concern for the interests of your state, or region, instead of the entire country is called...
federalism
sectionalism
republicanism
nationalism
20
What law (act), that led to violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas"), is shown below?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
