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1
Allowing territories to vote on the right to have slavery was known as:
The Missouri Compromise
the 13th amendment
popular sovereignty
territorial suffrage
2
Which of the following states did not secede immediately?
Kentucky
Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
3
Which politician proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
John C. Calhoun
Charles Sumner
4
Who was elected as President of the United States in 1856?
Franklin Pierce
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
Millard Fillmore
5
Who was the Mexican-American War hero that later became president?
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Robert E. Lee
6
The Compromise of 1850 allowed slavery to exist in:
The Louisiana Territory
The Oregon Territory
The New Mexico Territory
The Kansas Territory
7
Who developed The Missouri Compromise and The Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
John C. Fremont
Charles Sumner
John C. Calhoun
8
Who famously debated with Stephen A. Douglas over the issue of slavery?
Roger B. Taney
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
James K. Polk
9
What name was given to individuals from Missouri that voted illegally in Kansas?
Warhawks
Confederates
Jayhawks
Border Ruffians
10
How did the South view
Uncle Tom's Cabin?
as an honest representation of slavery
as northern propaganda
as a reason to overturn slave codes
as a reason to abolish the African slave trade
11
Who am I?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Susan B. Anthony
Dolly Madison
12
When Missouri became a slave state, what became a free state?
Rhode Island
Michigan
Maine
Ohio
13
The Compromise of 1850 abolished the slave trade in:
New Orleans
New York City
Washington D.C.
The Kansas Territory
14
In
Scott V. Sandford
, the Supreme Court ruled that:
slaves were property and could be taken anywhere in the U.S.
The Missouri Compromise was constitutional
Fugitive Slave Laws were unconstitutional
escaped slave were free if they made it to a free state
15
How did many Southerners take advantage of the Fugitive Slave Laws?
they kidnapped random African Americans in the North
they secretly imported slaves from Africa
they paid off abolitionist juries in the North
they formed the Underground Railroad
16
Who am I?
Jefferson Davis
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Henry Clay
17
Who was the slave that tried to sue for his freedom in the Supreme Court in 1857?
Solomon Wilcox
Mark Henry
Nat Turner
Dred Scott
18
What made California a free state?
The Wilmot Proviso
The Compromise of 1850
The Great Compromise
The Missouri Compromise
19
Where were the fist shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Fort Pickens, Florida
Fort Mims, Alabama
20
To appease the South, The Compromise of 1850 created:
anti-slavery propaganda
Jim Crow Laws
Fugitive Slave Laws
Black Codes
21
Who am I?
John Tyler
William Henry Harrison
Abraham Lincoln
Roger B. Taney
22
Who was the Southerner that nearly beat Northerner Charles Sumner to death in the Senate?
William Kiett
Preston Brooks
Millard Fillmore
John C. Calhoun
23
Who am I?
Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
James K. Polk
Franklin Pierce
24
Who was elected as the president of The Confederate States of America?
John C. Calhoun
Preston Brooks
James Powers
Jefferson Davis
25
Who am I?
James K. Polk
Franklin Pierce
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
26
Who am I?
Stephen A. Douglas
James Buchanan
Zachary Taylor
Preston Brooks
27
Which compromise tried to keep a balance between free states and slave states?
The Great Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
28
Who was elected President of the United States in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
Zachary Taylor
Andrew Johnson
29
Who am I?
Eli Whitney
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Dred Scott
30
Who am I?
William Henry Harrison
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Henry Clay
31
Who wrote the controversial novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Suzanne Collins
Harriet Beecher Stowe
32
Roger B. Taney was a:
Representative who proposed Fugitive Slave laws
Secretary of Defense
Senator who tried to stop the spread of slavery
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
33
Who am I?
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Henry Clay
34
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required who to help capture runaway slaves?
Northerners
Westerners
Southerners
everyone
35
Who am I?
Millard Fillmore
Robert E. Lee
Zachary Taylor
James K. Polk
36
What anti-slavery capital in Kansas was burned to the ground by pro slavery supporters?
Lecompton, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas
Burlington, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
37
Who led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859?
James Oglethorpe
Simon Legree
John Brown
William Hanes
38
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
Texas
Mississippi
South Carolina
Louisiana
39
What nickname was given to Kansas following the slavery vote in 1855?
Cruel Kansas
War Torn Kansas
Dying Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
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Who am I?
John C. Calhoun
Dred Scott
Stephen A. Douglas
John Brown
