What was the result of the 1858 Senate election for Abraham Lincoln?

He lost but became a Republican leader

The movement to restrict/lower alcohol consumption

What was the Underground Railroad?

A network of people and safe houses

What push factor caused Irish immigration in the 1850s?

Starvation due to the potato famine

What was the immediate result of popular sovereignty in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Settlers from both sides of the slavery debate rushed to settle in Kansas

What did conductors on the Underground Railroad do?

Acted as guides for escaping slaves

Which of the following is true about Lincoln’s election?

All of his electoral votes came from free states

What were the major rulings of the Dred Scott decision?

Black Americans could not be citizens and slavery cannot be banned

What did the Free African Religious Society hope to accomplish?

Racial equality and education for blacks

What is the best explanation for why the Democratic party had two candidates for president in 1860?

Because they couldn’t agree on slavery

Which of the following is not part of the Compromise of 1850?

Admitting Oregon and Minnesota as free states

Which of the following is the best definition of Bleeding Kansas?

A period of pro- and anti-slavery violence foreshadowing the Civil War

What was the goal of the common-school movement?

To have all children taught in a common place

What did educational reformers accomplish in regards to women’s education?

Increasing women’s access to higher education

What event spurred South Carolina to secede from the Union?

Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 presidential election

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1
What was the result of the 1858 Senate election for Abraham Lincoln?
He lost and was pushed out of politics
He won and resigned shortly after to run for President
He lost but became a Republican leader
He won and became the Senate Majority Leader
2
What was temperance?
The movement to restrict/lower alcohol consumption
The movement to ban the import of beer and liqueur
When the 18th amendment was rescinded and alcohol became legal
When America banned the production and sale of alcohol
3
What is the term for the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants?
Isolationism
Nativism
Cronyism
Nationalism
4
What was the Underground Railroad?
A network of roads connecting the North and South
A underground subway system in the North
A single trail taken by escaping slaves
A network of people and safe houses
5
What well known abolitionist was an escaped slave who advised President Lincoln and wrote a book about his life?
William Penn
Frederick Douglass
Benjamin Harrison
William Lloyd Garrison
6
Trivia Time: Which of the following people was actually a US president?
Alexander Hamilton
Salmon P. Chase
Chester A. Arthur
Benjamin Franklin
7
Which of the following is a PULL factor?
Poor job opportunities
High priced housing
High crime rate
Good healthcare
8
What part of the Compromise of 1850 caused the most outrage in the North?
Admission of California as a free state
Popular sovereignty in Nebraska
The Fugitive Slave Act
Banning the slave trade in DC
9
What push factor caused Irish immigration in the 1850s?
Political oppression by the British
Starvation due to the potato famine
Job opportunities in Dublin
Violence due to a war with the British
10
Who was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Angelina Grimke
Sojourner Truth
Charles Turner Torrey
Harriet Tubman
11
What was the immediate result of popular sovereignty in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Northern and Southern armies occupied the state to influence the vote
Kansas was divided into hundreds of homestead claims for farmers
Settlers from both sides of the slavery debate rushed to settle in Kansas
The people who already lived in Kansas voted in favor of slavery
12
Charles Grandison Finney would most likely be associated with what movement?
The Women's Rights Movement
The Second Great Awakening
Transcendentalism
Abolitionism
13
What did conductors on the Underground Railroad do?
Acted as guides for escaping slaves
Maintained route maps and trail signs
Returned runaways to the plantations
Operated the "stations" along the route
14
Which of the following is true about Lincoln’s election?
All of his electoral votes came from free states
He won the vast majority of the popular vote
He was widely supported in all regions of the country
Many of his votes came from poor Southerners
15
What is the term for the idea that political power belongs to the people and that voters should make major decisions?
Populism
Manifest destiny
Sectionalism
Popular sovereignty
16
What were the major rulings of the Dred Scott decision?
Slavery was ruled unconstitutional as it violated people's freedom
Slavery in the territories was unconstitutional & Scott was free
Slavery was OK but Scott was rightfully free as a citizen of Illinois
Black Americans could not be citizens and slavery cannot be banned
17
What did the Free African Religious Society hope to accomplish?
Property rights and jobs for black Americans
Racial equality and education for blacks
Increased segregation in schools and communities
Forming new black churches and religions
18
Which of the following documents best represents the Northern attitude towards slavery in the new territories?
Wilmot Proviso
Fugitive Slave Act
Dawes Act
The Constitution
19
What is the best explanation for why the Democratic party had two candidates for president in 1860?
Because they couldn’t agree on slavery
In order to split up the electoral votes
To outnumber Lincoln’s Republicans
Due to disagreements over taxes
20
What federal and state tax is collected based on your annual gross income?
Corporate tax
Gains Tax
Wealth tax
Income tax
21
Who was the first and only president of the Confederacy?
William H. Seward
Jefferson F. Davis
John J. Crittenden
Robert E. Lee
22
What was the Abolition Movement?
The movement for women voting
The movement to end slavery
The movement to ban alcohol
The movement to abolish cotton
23
Which of the following is not part of the Compromise of 1850?
Popular sovereignty in the territory gained from Mexico
New stricter fugitive slave law
Banning the slave trade in Washington DC
Admitting Oregon and Minnesota as free states
24
Which of the following is the best definition of Bleeding Kansas?
A period of pro- and anti-slavery violence foreshadowing the Civil War
The massacre of hundreds of anti-slavery settlers in Lawrence
Violent attacks on members of Kansas’s pro-slavery legislature
Battles between the territorial militias of Nebraska and Kansas
25
Many abolitionists also supported what movement?
Social reforms in cities
Temperance and prohibition
Religious Revivalism
Women’s Rights
26
What is the best term for loyalty to your region over the country?
Imperialism
Territorialism
Sectionalism
Nationalism
27
What was the goal of the common-school movement?
To ruin kids' lives
To provide education for gifted and wealthy children
To have all children learn a standardized curriculum
To have all children taught in a common place
28
What did educational reformers accomplish in regards to women’s education?
Limiting access to education for women and girls
Permitting women to teach at colleges and universities
Opening elementary schools to girls for the first time
Increasing women’s access to higher education
29
What event spurred South Carolina to secede from the Union?
The Union naval attack on Fort Sumter
Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 presidential election
Congress passed a new law limiting the spread of slavery
The announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation

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