Steps The The Civil War
Chapter 20: Steps to the Civil War
- 1.What territory brought controversy when it wanted to join the union as a slave state in 1820?
- A.
Mississippi
- B.
Missouri
- C.
Maine
- D.
Nebraska
- 2.What was a the Tallmadge Amendment?
- A.
A failed amendment making that would have made Missouri a free state.
- B.
An addition to a bill making all the territory received from the Mexican Cession free territory
- C.
An amendment creating fugitive slave laws
- D.
A bill condemning John Brown
- 3.What free state was admitted to the union in the Missouri Compromise?
- A.
Massachusetts
- B.
Idaho
- C.
California
- D.
Maine
- 4.Inspired by the Second Great Awakening, who wrote the abolitionist book Uncle Tom's Cabin?
- A.
Harriet Tubman
- B.
Harriet Beacher Stowe
- C.
Louisa Alcott
- D.
Edna Millford
- 5.Which one did NOT happen in the Compromise of 1850
- A.
Washington D.C. abolished all slavery within its borders
- B.
California became a free state
- C.
The territory known as the Mexican Cession became slave territory
- D.
The U.S. Legislature passed new laws known as the fugitive slave laws
- 6.Because he wanted to build a railroad across the continent, this man thought up the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
- A.
Abe Lincoln
- B.
Steven Douglas
- C.
Steven Butler
- D.
Charles Sumner
- 7.The Kansas Nebraska Act lead to violence because
- A.
It allowed the people in the territories to vote if they wanted to be a free or slave state
- B.
It made both states slave states
- C.
It made Kansas and free state and Nebraska a slave state
- D.
It set all slaves in those territories free
- 8.Which is NOT true about the Dred Scott decision
- A.
The Supreme Court decided an African-American was not and never could be a citizen
- B.
The Supreme Court said the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
- C.
The Supreme Court said that if a slave went to a free territory for five years they were indeed free.
- D.
They Supreme Court concluded that slaves or former slaves cannot file law suits in court
- 9.What did people in the South think of John Brown?
- A.
The say him as a hero
- B.
They respected him for fighting for what he believed in
- C.
They thought he would be a good replacement for Stephen Douglass
- D.
They feared him and his actions and thought he was a terrorist
- 10.Which is NOT true about the election of 1860?
- A.
Lincoln won by a landslide becoming one of the more popular presidents ever
- B.
The Democratic vote was split between two different democratic candidates
- C.
Lincoln became the first Republican president elected.
- D.
Lincoln won with none of the southern states voting for him
- 11.Lincoln was a strong abolitionist.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.In December of 1860, what was the first state to secede?
- A.
Alabama
- B.
South Carolina
- C.
Kansas
- D.
Virginia
- 13.What fort was attacked starting the Civil War?
- A.
Fort Brag
- B.
Fort Sumter
- C.
Harpers Ferry
- D.
Fort Wayne
- 14.In general, how did Americans feel about the fugitive slave laws passed by Congress?
- A.
Most American disliked them
- B.
Northerners hated it and southerners were happy they got their slaves back
- C.
Both sides thought it was fair.
- D.
Only abolitionists didn't like it
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