Gateway, Bridge to Success on Florida's EOC Test, Ch. 1, Causes of the Civil War

Question 1

Rival state governments (pro- and anti-slavery) resulted in violence that reached US Senate.

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"Bleeding Kansas"

Question 2

Dred Scot v. Sandford made two key findings (choose 2):

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Scott was a slave, not a citizen & could not sue in court, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

Question 3

The greater loyalty that Americans felt towards their own region rather than to whole country.

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sectionalism

Question 4

Lincoln won the 1860 election with 39% of the popular vote and no Southern electoral votes.

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True

Question 5

People living in a territory deciding for themselves whether to permit slavery or not is called

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popular sovereignty

Question 6

If states created federal govt. by ratifying the Constitution, they had right to secede also.

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states rights

Question 7

Supreme Court Justice from the slave state of Maryland who decided that Dred Scott was property

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Roger B. Taney

Question 8

The Liberator was a journal written and published by

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William Lloyd Garrison

Question 9

This law, resented by the North, required the North to return runaway slaves back to the South.

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Fugitive Slave Law

Question 10

He lived with his owner in several free states before returning to his home slave state.

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Dred Scott

Question 11

These reformers saw slavery as a great moral evil that had to be ended.

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abolitionists

Question 12

Long term causes of the Civil War included economic, social, and practical factors

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False

Question 13

South Carolina was the first state to secede; Florida the fourth state.

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False

Question 14

This attempt to stir slaves to revolt created a wave of fear among Southern whites.

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John Brown's Raid

Question 15

Compromise of 1850: Calif could enter as free state and other states to decide for themselves.

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True

Question 16

Nort. abolitionist who fought pro-slavery agitators in Kansas & raided a federal arsenal in Va.

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John Brown

Question 17

In the Lincoln-Douglas debate,1858, the Freeport Doctrine stated by Douglas said

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the residents of a territory could choose to ban slavery

Question 18

The South favored cheap federal land and slavery while the Northeast favored protective tariffs

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true

Question 19

This political party was formed as a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

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Republican Party

Question 20

The new territories of California and New Mexico resulted from the

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Mexican American War

Question 21

This was the belief that it was America's God-given right to expand to the Pacific.

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manifest destiny

Question 22

Political leaders from each section wanted federal policies favorable to their own section.

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True

Question 23

Westward expansion created a problem: would territories be based slavery or free labor.

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True

Question 24

Harsher fugitive slave laws and the banning of slave sales in Washington, DC, were part of

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the Compromise of 1850

Question 25

This allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

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Missouri Compromise of 1820

Gateway, Bridge to Success on Florida's EOC Test, Ch. 1, Causes of the Civil War

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