Key Issues to SC Secessions

What is Manifest Destiny?

• The belief that it was America's destiny to control and civilize all of North America

• The belief that their destiny was to manifest

• A religious term used to explain how to be saved

As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans?

• They agreed to give up their land.

• They were given their choice of where to live.

• They were forced to live in reservations.

• They voluntarily moved to Canada and Mexico.

The war with Mexico BEGAN with

• California's rebellion
• a border dispute in Texas
• the Battle of Buena Vista
• a US invasion of Mexico City

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In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

Why was the Dred Scott decision so important to slavery?

• It proved that slaves were property with no rights

• It proved that slaves that ran away for freedom but came back are still considered free

• It proved that slavery should be in every territory

• It proved that slaves should be treated like humans and should be better than whites

Which of the following acts repealed part of the Missouri Compromise?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Indian Removal Act

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

Not all citizens of SC agreed on the issue of secession. Which group believed that SC should not secede from the US?

• Sectionalists

• Cooperationists

• Secessionists

• Unionists

Which of the following individuals, opposed by Southerners, won the presidential election of 1860?

• John Bell

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Hannibal Hamlin

Although John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an attempt to challenge the institution of slavery, the raid resulted in

• A compromise between the North and South over the question of slavery

• A decrease in slavery's influence in the South

• Further tensions between Northern and Southern states over the issues of slavery and state's rights

• The demand for more rights for slaves and free blacks