Civil War

The territory the United States gained after the Mexican War

• did not affect the slavery issue

• caused strive between the North and South

• was opened to settlers with or without slaves

• resolved tensions between the North and South

The Civil War began with the

• secession of South Carolina.

• attack on Lawrence, Kansas

• formation of the Confederate States of America

• Confederate attack on Fort Sumter

The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to

• ban slavery in Washington, D.C.

• offer freed slaves land in the West

• force Americans to help catch escaped slaves

• provide safety for escaped slaves.

Under popular sovereignty, the decision whether or not to allow slavery in a territory was made by

• the President

• the Supreme Court

• Congress.

• the voters of the territory

In 1860 and 1861, eleven southern states seceded from the Union in protest of the

• Dred Scott decision.

• election of Abraham Lincoln as President

• brutal beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate

• Fed gov't refusal to punish John Brown

What did Senator Stephen Douglas propose in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• to make Kansas and Nebraska slave states

• to uphold the Missouri Compromise

• slavery should be legal by popular sovereignty

• to allow slavery in Nebraska but not in Kansas

Which of the following did the Supreme Court uphold in the Dred Scott decision?

• Slavery should be abolished in Washington D.C.

• Slavery was unconstitutional

• Could not take slaves into free states

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What was the greatest impact of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry?

• It deepened the division between North & South

• North& South reached a temporary “cease-fire.”

• The raid caused the decline of the Whig Party.

• To let state governments decide slavery issues

In general, the policy of President James K. Polk was one of

• limiting the growth of the United States

• expansion wesyward to occupy all of North America

• stopping expansion with the annexation of Cal.

• stopping expansion with the annexation of Texas

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo stated that Mexico

• would try to recover Texas.

• had won the Mexican War.

• had reached a stalemate

• had lost the Mexican War and will cede 7 states over to the Union.