Causes of the Civil War

Who was the author of both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

• John Adams

• Stephen Douglas

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

California was admitted as a free state in which event:

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Election of 1860

Jefferson Davis believed the south had a legal right to secede because of which principle

• Popular sovereignty

• States rights

• Judicial review

Who won the election of 1860?

• Andrew Johnson

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Buchanan

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

Why did Kansas get the nickname of "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s?

• People began to move west toward California

• It's population slowly died off due to disease

• Violence that erupted over issue of slavery

Secede means to:

• Withdraw or leave

• Cancel or nullify

• Join or annex

The Missouri Compromise brought in Missouri as a _______ state and Maine as a _______ state

• free, slave

• slave, free

The Missouri Compromise declared that __________ was prohibited in all territories above the 36°30'N line.

• abolitionist propaganda

• alcohol

• slavery

• fugitive slave laws

Who was the slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in the landmark Supreme Court case?

• Dred Scott

• John Sandford

• Uncle Tom

• Frederick Douglas