Which of the following was a similarity between Lincoln and Davis?

They were well-educated lawyers

Which of the following was one of Lincoln's beliefs?

Slavery should not spread into new territories

What did the Fugitive Slave Act establish?

Northerners had to help capture escaped slaves

Where did the term "Bleeding Kansas" come from?

Fighting that broke out after election day

The Missouri Compromise established all of the following EXCEPT:

Allowed Missouri to vote on slavery

What was the role of a Conductor on the Underground Railroad?

Help slaves travel north safely

Place these major events in chronological order.

Missouri Compromise; Compromise of 1850; Bleeding Kansas

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1
Which of the following was a similarity between Lincoln and Davis?
They were well-educated lawyers
They both served in the Mexican-American War
They were both U.S. Secretary of War
They both were horrible senators
2
Who did Lincoln first ask to lead Union troops at the onset of the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Henry Clay
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
3
Which of the following was one of Lincoln's beliefs?
He believed slavery should be the right of each state
Slavery should not spread into new territories
The country could exist with slavery
The only way to save the country was with war
4
What do Abolitionists believe?
Slavery was a necessary part of life
Ending slavery
Slavery was wrong, but necessary
Capturing slaves was right
5
What did the Fugitive Slave Act establish?
When slaves reached the North, they couldn't be taken back
Canadians had to help southerners capture escaped slaves
Northerners had to help capture escaped slaves
Any slave caught escaping was automatically put in jail
6
The North favored INDUSTRY, while the South favored:
Mining
Agriculture
Slavery
Factories
7
Based on the Compromise of 1850, which territories were allowed to vote on slavery?
New Mexico and Kansas
Utah and Nebraska
California and New Mexico
New Mexico and Utah
8
Which major event was the first to start building tensions between the North and South?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Underground Railroad
Compromise of 1850
9
Where did the term "Bleeding Kansas" come from?
The Natives that were pushed out of Kansas
The number of slaves killed after Kansas became a state
The wave of people that rushed in to settle Kansas Territory
Fighting that broke out after election day
10
How many times did Harriet Tubman go back down South?
19
12
31
25
11
What was the biggest crop produced in the South?
Wheat
Cotton
Corn
Tobacco
12
The Missouri Compromise established all of the following EXCEPT:
Allowed Missouri to vote on slavery
Missouri Compromise Line at 36°30'
Made Maine a free state
Made Missouri a slave state
13
Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Ford
John Wilkes Booth
Henry Clay
Levi Strauss
14
What was the role of a Conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Trap escaping slaves
Northerners that sent slaves back South
Drive the train on the Underground Railroad
Help slaves travel north safely
15
Place these major events in chronological order.
Missouri Compromise; Compromise of 1850; Bleeding Kansas
Compromise of 1850; Bleeding Kansas; Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act; Election of Lincoln; Bleeding Kansas
Missouri Compromise; Bleeding Kansas, Fugitive Slave Act
16
Which of the following was NOT an immediate effect of Lincoln's election?
Slavery was abolished
Lincoln hoped the Union could be saved without war
Seven states seceded from the Union
An attack on Fort Sumter

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