Causes of Civil War Review

Which is a reason many Georgia plantation owners favored secession?

• a desire for increased markets in the North

• the need to import large numbers of new slaves

• fear that abolition would end their way of life

• trouble getting agricultural loans from Northern banks

Which philosophies influenced southern responses in the tariff crisis of the 1830s?

• Nullification

• State's Rights

• Free Trade

• All of the Above

• None of the Above

Why did Southerners favor secession rather than accept Abraham Lincoln as president?

• Lincoln did not receive a majority of popular votes.

• Lincoln wanted to stop the expansion of slavery.

• Lincoln said he would emancipate all slaves if elected.

• Lincoln wanted settlers in territories to vote on slavery.

Which is a correct statement about the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857?

• The decision pleased both the North and South.

• Abolitionists considered the decision a great victory.

• Slaves were classified as property without human rights.

• Expansion of slavery into new territories was declared illegal.

People who opposed slavery were known as:

• Confederates

• Sharecroppers

• Secessionists

• Abolitionists

What compromise created the State of Maine and maintained a balance between free and slave states in the U.S. Senate?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

During the 1850s, whose freedom was addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case that denied rights to African Americans?

• Harriet Tubman

• Henry McNeal Turner

• Dred Scott

• Homer Plessy

What created a boundary line throughout the unsettled territory for determining slavery in newly settled territories?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

The belief that state governments in the U.S. do not answer to a higher authority and are free to nullify national laws.

• Manifest Destiny

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Powers

• States' Rights

Which presidential candidate won the Election of 1860 despite not winning delegates from the slave states?

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• U.S. Grant