USHC 3.1 -Causes of the Civil War - Part 1

USHC 3.1 -Causes of the Civil War - Part 1

Multiple Choice

Missouri was going to be the first state of what major land acquisition?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican Cession

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What does precedent mean?

• guide future decisions

• abolish slavery

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Missouri entered the Union as a ....

• slave state

• free state

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Maine entered the Union as a ...

• slave state

• free state

Multiple Choice

The Missouri Compromise accomplished what goal?

• Adopting laws to promote better treatment of slaves

• Maintaining equal numbers of slave and free states

• Establishing a way to address the issue of slavery in future states

• Ending sectional differences in the nation

Multiple Choice

Did the Wilmot Proviso pass both houses of Congress?

• yes

• no

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What does "free soil" mean?

• no slave labor

• free land

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California wanted to enter the Union as a ...

• slave state

• free state

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What does popular sovereignty mean?

• voting whether or not to have slavery

• outlawing slavery

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Who benefited most directly from the Fugitive Slave Law included in the Compromise of 1850?

• abolitionists

• fugitive slaves

• slave owners

• southern judges

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Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal the 36 30N line that prohibited slavery?

• to get southern support for a transcontinental railroad

• to get northern support for a transcontinental railroad

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The Kansas Nebraska Act gave Kansas and Nebraska

• free soil

• popular sovereignty

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Bleeding Kansas was a conflict between

• proslavery and abolitionists

• Democratic Republicans and Federalists

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Multiple Choice

The principle of popular sovereignty was put into effect with what event?

• introduction of the Wilmot Proviso

• election of Abraham Lincoln

• adoption of the Missouri Compromise

• passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act

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What legislation overturned the Missouri Compromise?

• Wilmot Proviso

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive slave law

• Free soil laws

Multiple Choice

What political party emerged over the free soil issue?

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Progressives

• Populists

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What legislation was passed by Congress in an attempt to passify the South and keep them in the Union?

• the Fugitive Slave Act

• the Tariff of Abominations

• the 1832 Ordinance of Nullification

• the Alien and Sedition Acts

Multiple Choice

Which problem did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas - Nebraska Act attempt to solve?

• Extension of slavery into the western territories

• Equitable distribution of frontier lands to the owners of small farms

• Placement of protective tariffs on foreign imports

• Need for international improvements in transportation