Unit 10 - Road to the Civil War

Which statement BEST describes the results of the presidential election of 1860?

• Regional attitudes toward slavery played a small role in the outcome.
• Regional attitudes toward slavery decided the outcome.
• Moderate voters who wanted a compromise on slavery determined the winner.
• National unity led to a landslide victory for the Republican candidate.

How did the South react to Abraham Lincoln’s election as President in 1860?

• To save the Union, southern leaders agreed to support the new President.
• North Carolina and Virginia seceded, followed by South Carolina.
• Seven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.
• Southern leaders called for a new presidential election to be held in the spring.

What Supreme Court decision in 1857 divided the nation even more before the Civil War?

• Fugitive Slave Case
• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott Decision
• John Brown Decision

The abolitionist who led a raid on U.S. Army weapons stored at Harper's Ferry was...

• John Brown
• Henry Clay
• Dred Scott
• Robert E. Lee

Who said that slavery was a moral and political wrong during a series of debates in the Illinois Senate election of 1858?

• Stephen A. Douglas
• John Brown
• Abraham Lincoln
• Dred Scott

The Compromise of 1850 helped create which state?

• Texas
• Florida
• California
• Pennsylvania

Stephen Douglas helped create a law in 1854 that created which two new territories?

• New Mexico and Utah
• Maine and Missouri
• Kansas and Nebraska
• Colorado and Wyoming

In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe clashes between

• proslavery and antislavery groups
• Spanish landowners and new American settlers
• Chinese and Irish railroad workers 
• Native American Indians and white settlers 

What former slave was the famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad that helped over 300 other slaves escape to the North and Canada?

• Levi Coffin
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• John Brown

The first fighting of what became the Civil War occurred at...

• Fort Ticonderoga
• Fort Sumter
• Fort McHenry
• Fort Myers