Causes of the Civil War

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Causes of the Civil War

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Multiple Choice

"Compromise Enables Maine and Missouri To Enter Union" (1820)
"California Admitted to Union as Free State" (1850)
"Kansas-Nebraska Act Sets Up Popular Sovereignty" (1854)
Which issue is reflected in these headlines?

• enactment of protective tariffs
• extension of slavery
• voting rights for minorities
• universal public education

Multiple Choice

What legislation was passed by Congress to pacify the South and keep them in the union?

• the Fugitive Slave Act

• California would be added to the Union

• the 1832 Ordinance of Nullification

• the Alien and Sedition Act

Multiple Choice

What was a result of Henry Clay's American System?

• It strengthen economic ties between the North and the South

• It strengthened economic ties between the North and the West

• It united the North, south and the west

• It created an economy between the South and the west

Multiple Choice

What was the main arguments that Southerners made in defense of slavery?

• The right to own slaves was guaranteed under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• If the founding fathers had slaves, it should be OK for people who lived in the 1850s to have slaves
• It was up to the states to deal with the use of slavery because it was provided for in the Constitution
• The future of American economic development depended upon the continued existence of the Southern system of slavery

Multiple Choice

Supreme Court case involving the legality of slavery, citizenship rights, and congress' power to outlaw slavery

• Marbury vs. Madison
• Gibbons vs. Ogden
• McCulloch vs. Maryland
• Scott vs. Stanford

Multiple Choice

The Dred Scott case made what Compromise unconstitutional.  

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Great Compromise
• The 3/5th Compromise
• The Missouri Compromise

Multiple Choice

What earned the territory of Kansas the name "Bleeding Kansas"?

• Slave owners in the territory had a reputation for badly mistreating their slaves.
• Residents of the territory fought over whether or not Kansas should join the Union.
• Pro and Anti-slavery forces fought violently over whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.
• The territory lost a large number of soldiers during the Mexican-American War.

Multiple Choice

What effect did John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the ruling in Dred Scott v Sanford have on the nation?

• They ended slavery in the western territories.

• They caused a greater divide between the North and the South.

• They encouraged a spirit of cooperation to solve sectional differences.

• They weakened the influence of abolitionists over politicians.

Multiple Choice

To what did Abraham Lincoln's 1858 warning that " a house divided against itself cannot stand" refer?

• The treatment of Native American Indians

• The sectional differences over the issue of slavery

• the funding for internal improvements

• the treaties with other European nations

Multiple Choice

what became the controversy over adding new territories to the union?

• need for schools and colleges
• failure to conserve natural resources
• expansion of slavery
• construction of transcontinental railroads