Civil War

The territory the United States gained after the Mexican War

• did not affect the slavery issue
• caused strife between the North and South
• was opened to settlers with or without slaves
• resolved tensions between the North and South

The Civil War began with the

• secession of South Carolina.
• attack on Lawrence, Kansas
• formation of the Confederate States of America
• Confederate attack on Fort Sumter

The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to

• ban slavery in Washington, D.C.
• offer freed slaves land in the West
• force Americans to help catch escaped slaves
• provide safety for escaped slaves.

Under popular sovereignty, the decision whether or not to allow slavery in a territory was made by

• the President
• the Supreme Court
• Congress.
• the voters of the territory

In 1860 and 1861, eleven southern states seceded from the Union in protest of the

• Dred Scott decision.
• election of Abraham Lincoln as President
• brutal beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate
• Fed gov't refusal to punish John Brown

What did Senator Stephen Douglas propose in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• to make Kansas and Nebraska slave states
• to uphold the Missouri Compromise
• slavery should be legal by popular sovereignty
• to allow slavery in Nebraska but not in Kansas

Which of the following did the Supreme Court uphold in the Dred Scott decision?

• Slavery should be abolished in Washington D.C.
• Slavery was unconstitutional
• Could not take slaves into free states
• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What was the greatest impact of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry?

• It deepened the division between North & South
• North& South reached a temporary “cease-fire.”
• The raid caused the decline of the Whig Party.
• To let state governments decide slavery issues

In general, the policy of President James K. Polk was one of

• limiting the growth of the United States
• expansion wesyward to occupy all of North America
• stopping expansion with the annexation of Cal.
• stopping expansion with the annexation of Texas

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo stated that Mexico

• would try to recover Texas.
• had won the Mexican War.
• had reached a stalemate
• had lost the Mexican War and will cede 7 states over to the Union.