Causes of the Civil War

What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to obtain jobs.

• prevent slaves from testifying against whites in court trials.

• require slaves that had run away to go back to their owners.

• prevent slaves from having a group gathering or meetings.

What did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around

• the annexation of Texas.

• Jackson's War on the Bank.

• southern opposition to tariffs.

• decreased trade with France.

How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?

• It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.

• It made the Mississippi River the dividing line between slave states and free states.

• It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

• It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.

The event MOST LIKELY occurring due to the 1860 presidential election of Lincoln was

• the beginning of Reconstruction.

• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The passage of the Compromise of 1850

• the secession of South Carolina from the Union.

Which segment of the American population would have been MOST supportive of the Tariff of 1828?

• The Freedmen, who were hurt by high rates of unemployment due to the tariff.

• Southerners who were forced to pay higher prices on goods the region did not produce

• Western settlers who saw the threat that the tariff posed to their efforts at industrialization

• Northerners who would experience increased industrial growth because of a decrease in British imports.

Nullification was a theory espoused by John C. Calhoun which stated that states had the right to do what?

• decide which national laws states would accept

• get rid of unwanted national bureaucracy

• determine if they wanted to remain in the Union

• refuse to use the paper money issued by the Federal government

What did the Georgia Platform support?

• states' rights

• popular sovereignty

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

Which BEST describes a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• A slave had the right to sue for freedom in a federal court.

• A slave was only a citizen after he or she purchased freedom.

• A slave was not a citizen but rather the property of an owner.

• A slave who lived on free soil for any length of time was free.

Which of these political issues caused the MOST division in Washington, DC, as the United States moved westward in the 19th century?

• the expansion of slavery into newly acquired territories

• the role that geography played in created state lines

• the role of men in the new frontier

• whether or not to allow Native Americans to become US citizens

Which statement is the BEST description of the immediate effect of the cotton gin on cotton production in the American south in the early-1800s?

• Although now easier to produce, cotton was still less profitable than rice and tobacco.

• Daily rates of production rose from 1 pound of cotton per slave to as much as 50 pounds per slave.

• Daily rates of production rose from 20 pounds of cotton per slave to as much as 40 pounds per slave.

• It had little effect on cotton production because the machines were too expensive for most planters to purchase.