Chapter 15 #2, Road to the Civil War

Who proposed the Missouri Compromise?

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• Roger B. Taney

• Henry Clay

What formed on February 4, 1861?

• the Dred Scott Decision

• the Confederacy

• the Union

• the attack on Fort Sumter

Who was a violent abolitionist?

• Henry Clay

• John Brown

• Daniel Green

• Marcus Welby

Who was an opponent of Abraham Lincoln?

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Henry Clay

• Mark Twain

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Where was the first attack of the Civil War?

• Fort McHenry

• Fort Leonard Wood

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Charleston

The main issue in the election of 1844 was the

• annexation of Texas.

• annexation of Kansas.

• annexation of Missouri.

• annexation of California.

What plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico?

• Missouri Compromise

• Clay's Plan

• Mexican Plan

• Wilmot Proviso

A person could be fined up to $1,000 or be imprisoned for breaking the law stated in the

• Southern Slave Act

• Owners-Right Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Runaway Slave Act

What book showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system?

• Slavery in the South

• Slavery's System

• African Americans in Slavery

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?

• Texas

• Kansas

• Missouri

• South Carolina