SS8H6 Test Review

The Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around

• the annexation of Texas.
• the annexation of Texas.
• decreased trade with France.
• southern opposition to tariffs.

The event MOST LIKELY occurring due to the 1860 presidential election of Lincoln was

• the beginning of Reconstruction.
• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• the John Brown-led raid at Harper's Ferry.
• the secession of South Carolina from the Union.

Which of these inventions resulted in Southern farmers buying slaves in record numbers?

• cotton gin
• cotton mill
• assembly line
• spinning jenny

How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?

• It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.
• It made the Mississippi River the dividing line between slave states and free states.
• It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.
• It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.

Nullification was a theory espoused by John C. Calhoun which stated that states had the right to do what?

• get rid of unwanted national bureaucracy
• decide which national laws states would accept
• determine if they wanted to remain in the Union
• refuse to use the paper money issued by the Federal government

The Georgia Platform succeeded in saving the Union from collapse by

• quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.
• balancing the number of slave states with the number of free states.
• threatening a Civil War if the North decided to secede from the Union.
• establishing the guidelines for the creation of the Compromise of 1850.

What role did Alexander Stephens fulfill following Georgia’s secession from the Union?

• Republican
• cooperationist
• vice president of the Confederacy
• leader of the Georgia state convention

Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to

• preserve the Union.
• encourage sectionalism.
• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.
• end slavery throughout the entire country.

Which law is being described here?

• Gadsden Purchase
• Northwest Ordinance
• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
• Oregon-Washington Purchase of 1848

Which Supreme Court case would have had the BIGGEST impact on slaves in the United States?

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)