Ch 14-15 (The Civil War) PRACTICE TEST

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Which compromise made in 1820 preserved the balance between slave states and free states?

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Missouri Compromise

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Which part of the nation would be most in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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The Southern slave states

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The Fugitive Slave Act...

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increased Underground Railroad Activity, led to resistance in the North, infuriated abolitionists.

Front

Who is John Brown?

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A Violent Abolitionist

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What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

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slavery

Front

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

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popular sovereignty

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Which of these people ran for the Republican Party? Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, John Breckinridge

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Abraham Lincoln

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The Election of 1860 was won by the...

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Republican Party

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Type of naval ship that changed the world: Ironclads, Contrabands, Blockade runners, Copperheads

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Ironclads

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Union commander who used a ¨total war¨ strategy to destroy Georgia

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William Tecumseh Sherman