Civil War Test

How did popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?

• States or territories would decide whether to permit slavery
• the government would have the last word on slavery
• slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states

What inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• meeting the abolitionist southern writer Louisa McCord
• reading about the debates over the Compromise of 1850
• Listening to the stories of the fugitive slaves she met in Ohio.

What was Senator John C. Calhoun's position in the debate for the Compromise of 1850?

• California should enter the union as a free state
• Slave states should separate peacefully from the Union
• Slave trade should be banned

What did the Kansas-Nebraska act do?

• Divided the Louisiana Purchase into two territories
• maintained the balance of free and slave states
• reinforced the restriction placed on slavery by the Missouri Co

What was the event that happened on the night of May 24, 1856 where five pro-slavery men were killed?

• Shay's Rebellion
• Brown's Raid
• the Pottawatomie Massacre

The Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Supreme Court established that

• Congress had the legal power to ban slavery
• Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery was unconstitutional
• slaves were not allowed to accuse slaveholders

Abraham Lincoln accused Democrats of wanting to 

• spread slavery in the West
• reestablish slavery in the North
• Form their own separate Union

John Brown led an armed resistance in Virginia attempting to

• show his anger over the Dred Scott decision
• fight the work of antislavery supporters
• Steal weapons and bring them to slaves

Southerners feared this after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• The safety of the south was in jeopardy
• the slaves in the North would lead their own attack
• the government would soon declare slavery illegal in the south

What was the significance of the election of 1860?

• It exposed the corruption of the electoral college
• It showed that the South was losing it's political power
• It brought to light the divisions that existed in America about slavery