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What did Alexander Stephens use to supprt his position on slavery?
Military
Religion and Science
Economics
Politics and military
2
What happened to John Brown after the raid?
He was shot to death during the raid.
He was sent to prison for life.
He was taken captive and hanged to death.
Captured, but was eventually set free by Abraham Lincoln.
3
The compromise of 1850 was about ____.
New Territories and Slavery
Mexicans
Unicorns
Presidents
4
The main points of the Kansas-Nebraska Act were
divided the new territory into Kansas and Nebraska territories
MIssouri Compromise slavery restriction removed
all of the above
popular sovereignty to decide slavery issue
5
Who was Alexander Stephens?
Vice President of Confederate States and Cornerstone Speech
Politician who hated the South
Lincoln's trusted advisor
6
Who was Dred Scott?
The first African American to purchase land in the U.S.
An enslaved man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
First African American congressman
An Abolitionists from the North
7
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
Stephen Douglas
Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln
John Breckinridge
8
What was a result of the Lincoln Douglas Debates?
Lincoln became well-known.
Lincoln supported popular sovereignty.
Douglas spoke of the evils of slavery.
Douglas became President.
9
The first battle of the Civil War was where?
Tallahassee Florida
Fort Sumter South Carolina
Gettysburg Pennsylvania
Fort Pickens Florida
10
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The Governor of Alabama
The President of the Confederacy
A member of the Quaker non violent religion
A prominent abolitionist
11
When
was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
June 16, 1955
April 12, 1861
12
Who was John Brown?
A Southern plantation owner
a radical abolitionist
A politition from Main
A Southern sympathizer
13
What was Alexander Stephens' speech state?
The South would surrender and forfeit slavery
The South would stop attacking if the North would surrender
The white race was superior to the African American race
14
What are the 3 main causes of the Civil War?
Expansion, Sectionalism, and Rights
Slavery, States Rights, and Sectionalism
Slavery, Cotton, and Industrialization
Union was in our business, Not trading with us, and Slaves
15
Which one was NOT the 3 major causes of the civil war
Economic and social differences between the North and South
The fight between slave states and non slave states
The election of Abraham Lincoln
Shortage of resources
16
Author of Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Fredrick Douglas
Horace Mann
17
Why did South Carolina seceed from the Union?
Ft. Sumter was being fired upon
Abraham Lincoln was elected president (anti-slavery)
the secession of Virginia
slavery was abolished in California
18
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Proposed that slavery would not be allowed in new states
A railway system extending across the contient
A book about slavery
Citizens of new territories decide would decide the slavery issue
19
Who are border ruffians?
Northerners trying to smuggle slaves across southern border.
Antislavery MOs who went to KS to vote.
Proslavery people from Missouri who went to Kansas to vote.
Southerners selling slaves across northerner border.
20
What Senator held a series of famous debates with Abraham Lincoln?
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglas
Henry Clay
James Buchanan
21
What was the Wilmot Proviso
Law to allow slavery in the West
Bill to get rid of slavery in the West
Bill to have slavery in the West
Law that banned slavery in the West
22
In Dred Scott v. Sanford
, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled ___
against Dred Scott
Slaves are property; property rights are protected.
Africans could not sue because they were not citizens.
All of the above
23
Who won
the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The Union
The Confederacy
24
What did the Compromise of 1850 do?
Banned the SLAVE TRADE in Washington D.C
Force northerners to return an escaped slave
Allowed southerners to enter the north and capture escaped slaves
Admit California as a free state
25
What events led to the eventual breakdown of the compromises of 1820 and 1850?
Dred Scott Decision
Fighting at Ft. Sumter
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Bleeding Kansas
26
What was the goal of John Brown's small raid?
Start a rebellion among the slaves
Make the South leave the Union
Teach the government a lesson
Capture more slaves
27
Which was included in the Republican Party platform in the election of 1860
In free society the minority can break up the government
The question of slavery decided by popular sovereignty
Slavery should be protected in all territories
Slavery left alone, but excluded from territories
28
The Fugitive Slave Act was......
..an 1850 law that said people had to return runaway slaves.
...was the last straw that made the South leave the Union.
...when slaves got away the law said they were free forever.
29
What did the Kansas-Nebraska act do?
Put in place popular sovereignty
Made Nebraska a free state and Kansas a slave state
Annexed Nebraska
Put the Wilmot Proviso into action
30
Uncle Toms cabin was a book about
conflict between north and south
slave rebellion
dangers of living
cruelty to slaves
31
Who was Roger B. Taney?
Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case.
General in the Mexican War
South Carolina Senator who voted for secession.
A famous abolitionist.
32
Who was Dred Scott?
man who spoke to congress about horrors of slavery
the man who orchestrated the Pottawatomie massacre
slave who sued for his freedom
Antislavery senator
33
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote the?
Dred Scott Decision
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
34
Where did the battle of a Fort Sumter happen?
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Charleston Harbor, North Carolina
Charleston Habor, Boston MA
35
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed
states to secede from the union
states to decide to have slavery within their borders or not
slaves to be free
free land to immigrants
36
What was Bleeding Kansas?
A opera about the fight for freedom in Kansas.
Peaceful protest promoting slavery in Kansas-Missouri territory.
A book about the patriotism of the people of Kansas.
A series of violent attacks between pro and anit-slavery advocates.
