Unit 5 Quiz 1

Which set of issues led to the Civil War between North and South?                      

• states’ rights, slavery, and government services
• states’ rights, slavery, and free blacks
•  tariffs, states’ rights, and taxes.  
•  tariffs, states’ rights, and slavery

Nullification

• to manifest destiny
• to emancipate slaves
• to declare invalid
• to accept with dignity

Which statement best explains what was accomplished  by the “Missouri Compromise”? 

• required captured slaves to be returned 
• allowed slavery in Maine but  not in Missouri.
• maintained balance between slave states and free states
• It made Missouri the U.S. Capital.

 Kansas-Nebraska Act gave which of the following to the PEOPLE for the first time?

• They would be slave states
• Popular Sovereignty
• They would be free states
• The president would decide

Which of the following is NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

• The slave trade in the District of Columbia was abolished
• Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state 
• California entered the Union as a free state 
• Congress  pass the Fugitive Slave Act

Which of the following was NOT considered to be a cause of the Civil War?

• Tariffs
• States’ rights
• Slavery
• Trail of Tears

States' rights could be BEST defined as the belief that states

• could not free their states
• could leave the Union at anytime
• could ignore national laws if they were harmful to the state
• could force the national gov't to turn over all property

Why did the U.S. Supreme Court rule against Dred Scott?

• because he was a slave and could be taken anywhere
• because he did not live long enough in a free state tobefree
• because he was a slave and he was not eligible to sue in court
• because he returned to a slave state and he could not be free

Which candidate for President of the US in 1860 won the electoral vote?

• John Bell
• John Breckinridge
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln

An abolitionist is a person who wants to end slavery. 

• True
• False