Civil War Test Review

In the South the trade in cotton was very profitable, as a result Southern planters invested?

cotton.

• In industrial plants to process the cotton.

• In slaves instead of industry.

• In shipping to send cotton to Europe

• In northern factories to produce textiles from their cotton.

Cotton plantations were primarily located in?

A. Southern states.

B. Western states.

C. Northern states.

D. Eastern states.

• Southern states.

• Western states.

• Eastern states.

• Northern states.

The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act (1850) was to?

• Grant freedom to any slaves that reached the northern states.

• Allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state.

• Prevent slaveholders from seeking to regain runaway slaves in court.

• Allow slaveholders to recapture runaway slaves.

The Wilmot Proviso attempted to?

• Out law slavery in any territory the U.S. might acquire from the war with Mexico.

• Expand slavery into the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.

• Out law slavery in all territories west of the Mississippi.

• Expand slavery into the Northern states.

The Free Soil Party was dedicated to the?

• Expansion of slavery.

• Giving of land to all freed slaves over 21.

• Stopping the expansion of slavery.

• Expansion of land for cotton production.

An aim of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 was to?

• Bring the North and South together to protect their interests against those of the western territories.

• Protect states from the power of the national government.

• find a permanent solution to the question of whether to allow slavery in the new territories.

• Create a plan to hold the Union together.

Under The Kansas-Nebraska Act, The belief that the people living in a region should vote to decide whether to permit slavery was based on an idea called?

• suffrage

• states' rights

• sectionalism

• popular sovereignty

What did the killing of pro-slavery people in Kansas by John Brown cause?

• All the pro-slavery people to move out of Kansas.

• A civil war in Kansas that would last 3 years.

• Slavery to be outlawed in Kansas.

• Slavery to be allowed in Kansas.

What was the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on the Whig Party?

• The party split and the northern party became the Republican Party.

• The party gained members.

• The party weakened but reformed later to become the Democratic Party.

What was the ruling of Supreme Court on the Dred Scott case?

Mark all that are correct

• Dred Scott was ruled not a U.S. citizen and could not sue in U.S. courts.

• The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional.

• Congress could not ban slavery in the territories

• All the pro-slavery people had to move out of Kansas.