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Topic 7 - Pre-Civil War
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A review for Chapter 14 Quiz
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1
What Mexican-American War General was elected President in 1848?
John Brown
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Abraham Lincoln
2
The Confederate constitution stressed the importance of what?
Westward expansion
States rights
The right to bear arms
Freedom of speech
3
What Act repealed the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Compromise of Kansas
Hartley-Taft
Kansas-Nebraska
Compromise of 1850
4
What political party formed to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Republican
Democrat
Whig
Free Soil
5
What was the name of the pro-slavery men who came to Kansas from Missouri?
Border Ruffians
Abolitionists
Emigrant Aid Society
Puritans
6
Who wrote the novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin
?
John Brown
Harriet Stowe Beecher
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
7
What made cotton production 10 times faster?
Mechanical Reaper
Bathtub Gin
McCormick Reaper
Cotton Gin
8
What was the name given to the conflict in Kansas over the vote on slavery?
The Jayhawk War
Bleeding Kansas
Popular Sovereignty War
Bloody Kansas
9
What Senator held a series of famous debates with Abraham Lincoln?
James Buchanan
Henry Clay
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglas
10
What abolitionist led a raid on a federal arsenal in 1859?
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
John Brown
11
What 1858 Supreme Court decision ruled that African-Americans are not citizens?
Dred Scott v Sanford
Gibbons v Ogden
Brown v Board of Education
McCulloch v Maryland
12
Who was Frederick Douglass?
An abolitionist who wrote The North Star
A conductor on the Underground Railroad
An escaped slave and abolitionist
A proslavery plantation owner
13
Why did Stephen Douglas want the Kansas and Nebraska territories organized?
For a transcontinental railroad
To make southerners happy
To open the land to white settlers
So that they could have popular sovereignty
14
What was NOT a cause that led to the Civil War?
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Election of 1860
Kansas Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
15
The final event that caused the south to secede was...?
Kansas Nebraska Act
Slavery
Crittenden Compromise
Lincoln's election
16
What was NOT one of the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?
California enters as a free state
Popular Sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico
Stronger Fugitive Slave Law
Missouri enters as a slave state
17
Who was elected President of the Confederate States of America?
Robert E Lee
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
18
What was the first state to secede from the USA after Lincoln was elected President?
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
19
What led to rapid population growth in California?
Mexican-American War
Gold Rush
Mexican Cession
Fertile farmland
20
What preacher led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831?
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Dred Scott
Nat Turner
