Notes Quiz: Road to Civil War & Timeline

All of these are the main causes of the U.S. Civil War except ______________? (Which one is not one of the 3 main causes?)

• sectionalism

• stability

• slavery

• states' rights

Which of these is NOT true of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine was admitted as a free state.

• Missouri was admitted as a slave state.

• A line of latitude delineated the boundary separating where slavery was and was not allowed in the future.

• Citizens voted to choose whether or not to allow slavery in the territory.

As part of the Compromise of 1850, which of these was admitted as a free state?

• California

• Kansas

• Nebraska

• Texas

Specifically, how did the Union attempt to appease the southerners in the Compromise of 1850?

• People would be allowed to vote whether or not to allow slavery.

• A Fugitive Slave Act was passed to require runaway slaves to be returned to their masters.

• Missouri was admitted as a slave state.

• Texas was admitted as a slave state.

Which author depicted the evils of slavery in a novel that greatly impressed President Lincoln in the process?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Henry David Thoreau

As part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what method of deciding the issue of slavery was enacted in place of the Missouri Compromise?

• states' rights

• Compromise of 1850

• keeping the balance of slave and free states

• popular sovereignty

Included in the Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that slaves were ________________

• citizens

• emancipated

• property

• allowed suffrage

Who led the unsuccessful 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to arm the slaves and begin a revolt?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

Who was elected U.S. President in 1860 with only 40% of the popular vote?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Jackson

Which state was the first to secede from the Union and was also the state in which the first battle of the Civil War occurred?

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Pennsylvania

• Mississippi

• Missouri