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1
Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Abraham Lincoln
Zachary Tayler
Stephen A. Douglas
Henry Clay
2
When the South seceded from the Union, they tried to establish a new nation called
The Confederate States of America
The League of Southern States
The Southern States of America
The Slave States of America
3
What book sold hundreds of thousands of copies and turned many people into abolitionists?
Walden
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Grapes of Wrath
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
4
Which choice is not true about the Fugitive Slave Act?
Abolitionists supported it
Northerners called it the Bloodhound Act
It was a part of the Compromise of 1850
Northern juries often refused to enforce it
5
Which state became divided and split in two over the issue of secession from the Union?
Texas
Virginia
California
Florida
6
The first compromise over slavery that maintained a balance between slave and free states was
The Missouri Compromise
The Mississippi Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Compromise of 1850
7
Who is identified in the textbook as a
martyr
for abolitionists?
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Stephen A. Douglas
8
Which is a fugitive?
someone who is running away from legal authority
someone who dies for an important cause
someone who wants to end slavery
people who crossed into Kansas to vote in elections
9
What terms means "to break away or withdraw from an organization"?
arsenal
fugitive
secede
martyr
10
Which political party formed because the older parties would not oppose slavery?
The Know-Nothings
The Whigs
Democratic-Republicans
The Free Soil Party
11
Which state became the first to secede from the Union?
California
Georgia
Texas
South Carolina
12
Border ruffians from Missouri wreaked havoc in which state's elections?
California
Kansas
New York
Montana
13
David Wilmot proposed that all territories acquired from Mexico _______
should be given back to Spain.
should not allow slavery.
should be reserved for Native Americans.
should only be used for cotton farming.
14
Which state was admitted to the Union as a free state as a part of the Compromise of 1850?
Missouri
California
Ohio
Texas
15
When the South established the Confederacy, what city became their new capital?
Tallahassee, FL
Nashville, TN
Richmond, VA
Atlanta, GA
16
John Brown tried to raid what kind of building in 1859?
a federal prison
a federal courthouse
a federal bank
a federal arsenal
17
What did
popular sovereignty
mean?
allowing settlers of new territories to vote on slavery
voting only for abolitionist candidates
refusing to vote in elections taking place in slave states
voting only for well-known candidates
18
What is important about Ft. Sumter, South Carolina?
It became the capital of the Confederacy
It was the biggest battle of the Civil War
John Brown was killed there
It was the site of the first battle in the Civil War
