Quiz Time!
•1. The term “secession” refers to
which
action taken by Southern
states before
the American Civil
War?
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leaving the Union
voting to be slave or free
eliminating the Constitution
compromising about slavery
2. The presence of the Underground Railroad, as shown in the
map below, had the effect of ________ the North and South
before the Civil War.
unifying
dividing
joining
connecting
3. Who was known as “the Great
Compromiser” for his proposal of
the Missouri Compromise?
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
George Washington
4. In 1854, Illinois Senator
Stephen Douglas introduced what act,
which allowed two new Midwestern
states to choose whether they would
allow slavery?
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Illinois-Iowa Act
Oklahoma-Texas Compromise
5. The Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme
Court decision in 1857 reinforced the
idea that slaves had no political rights
because they were considered to be
which of the following?
above the law
too partial to be fair
mere property
uneducated
6. The idea of allowing the people of a
territory to decide if it would be slave
or free was known as what?
Factionalism
Abolitionism
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional Monarchy
7. From the point of view of
many Northerners,
John Brown was a________.
martyr for a just cause.
crazy rebel
Southern spy
8. The 1860 presidential candidate
whose name did not appear on the
ballot in most Southern states
was…
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John Breckinridge
John Bell
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
9. What book by Harriet Beecher
Stowe showed slavery as a brutal,
cruel system?
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Slavery in the South
Slavery As It Is
Bleeding Kansas
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• 10. A Person could be fined up to
$1,000 or be imprisoned for
breaking the law stated in the
_____________.
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Dred Scott Act
• Southern Slave Act
Why was the state of Maine admitted into the Union as a
free state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
a.
b.
c.
d.
it was rejected as a slave state
to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states
it was too large to be a territory
to shift the balance of power in the country to the free states
Which of the following completes the table on
Congressional Compromises below?
Congressional Compromises Before 1861
Missouri Compromise
Maine admitted to the
Union as a free state
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California admitted to the
Union as a free state
Banned slavery in the
Created new territories of
Louisiana Purchase north New Mexico and Arizona
of 36°30'
a. Rush-Bagot Agreement
b. Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Voided Missouri
Compromise
Decided slavery issue in
Kansas territory
c. Declaration of Independence
d. Proclamation of 1763
The 36°30' line shown on the map below, which designated
slave territory to the South and free territory to the North,
was established by what government act?
a. the Compromise of 1850
b. the Kansas-Nebraska Act
c. the Free/Slave Territory Act
d. the Missouri Compromise
Who is the U.S. government figure shown
and described below?
- Vice President under John Adams and
Andrew Jackson
- Supported states’ rights and nullification
- Senator from South Carolina
- Supported slavery and the agricultural South
before the Civil War
- Opposed Compromise of 1850
a. Stephen Douglas
b. Daniel Webster
c. Henry Clay
d. John Calhoun
Abolitionists, who were active in the
North before the Civil War, believed in
what?
a. doing away with slavery
b.helping slave owners
c. helping the aboriginal peoples
d.doing away with alcohol
The idea of allowing the people of a
territory to decide if it would be slave
or free was known as what?
a.
b.
c.
d.
factionalism
Abolitionism
popular sovereignty
constitutional monarchy
The issue that lay beneath many of the preCivil War congressional compromises, such
as the Compromise of 1850 and the KansasNebraska Act, was what?
a.
b.
c.
d.
taxation without representation
Slavery
over-industrialization in the South
trade with Europe
Refer to the chart listing Historic Quotations. Who said that…
Historic Quotations
Without their [the people’s] aid it is beyond the power of
any President . . . to restore peace and harmony among
the States. Wisely limited . . . under our Constitution and
laws, he alone can accomplish but little for good or for
evil on such a momentous question. (December 1860)
Sam Houston
You may, after the sacrifice of countless thousands of
treasure and hundreds of thousands of precious lives, as
a bare possibility, win Southern independence, if God be
not against you; but I doubt it. (January 1861)
Abraham Lincoln
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and
not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. . . . You
have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the
government, while I shall have the most solemn one to
“preserve, protect, and defend it.” (March 1861)
Jefferson Davis
Our present condition . . . illustrates the American idea
that governments rest upon the consent of the governed,
and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish
governments whenever they become destructive of the
ends for which they were established. (February 1861)
A
B
C
D
Daniel Webster
Thomas Jefferson
James Buchannan
George Washington.