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Events Leading to the Civil War Review
Events Leading to the Civil War Review
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Review for Civil War class study of the events leading to the Civil War.
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1
What location did John Brown attack in 1859 in order to launch a slave revolt through Virginia?
Pottawatomie
Richmond
Charleston
Harper's Ferry
2
Who was the Pennsylvania House member who wanted the Mexican War territory to be free?
Daniel Webster
David Wilmot
Stephen A. Douglas
John C. Calhoun
3
At what Pro-Slavery Kansas town did John Brown slay 5 men in front on their families?
Lawrence
Osawatomie
Kansas City
Pottawatomie
4
What party split based upon Northern and Southern boundaries just before the 1860 election?
Whig
Democratic
Nativists
Republican
5
Did the North follow the Fugitive Slave Act in the Compromise of 1850?
No
Yes
6
Who won the Election of 1860?
John Bell
John C. Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
7
What party rose up around 1856 with the sole belief that slavery was wrong and must be ended?
Nativists
Democratic
Whig
Republican
8
How many states seceded from the Union before Abe Lincoln was even able to take the presidency?
4
9
7
11
9
What dollar amount could citizens be fined if they helped fugitive slaves after the Compromise?
$1000
$5000
$2000
$500
10
What state did Pro-Slavery people come from to tilt the Kansas vote to make it a slave state?
Nebraska
Missouri
Ohio
Kentucky
11
What is the name of the author of best-selling 1850's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Lyman Beecher
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
12
What did Kansas choose for their state to be in the 1855 Popular Sovereignty election?
Free
Slave
13
What state would be created from Massachusetts in order to maintain the balance in Senate?
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine
14
What type of state did California become in the Compromise of 1850?
Free
Slave
15
Which U.S. President remarked after the Missouri Compromise that it filled him with terror?
James Madison
John Adams
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
16
What slave tried to sue for his freedom since spent 6 years in Illinois and Minnesota?
Frederick Douglass
Uncle Tom
Dred Scott
Simon Legree
17
What war took place in the 1840's and led to the U.S. gaining California, New Mexico & Arizona?
Mexican War
Revolutionary War
Spanish American War
War of 1812
18
What type of state did Missouri become within the Missouri Compromise?
Slave
Free
19
Who was beaten by South Carolina House member Preston Brooks with a cane on the Senate floor?
Charles Sumner
Stephen A. Douglas
Daniel Webster
Andrew Butler
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How many total of the 996 Southern Counties did Abraham Lincoln win in the 1860 Election?
854
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2
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