Causes of the Civil War

The Senate defeated the ?, which would have banned slavery in lands won from Mexico.  

• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1860
• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso

The Compromise of 1850 said that ?

• New Mexico and Utah could decide about slavery by popular sovereignty.  
• California would be admitted as a slave state.  
• slavery would be expanded in Washington, D.C.
• Congress would pass no laws affecting slavery.  

The Kansas-Nebraska Act applied the principle of ?

• states' rights.  
• popular sovereignty.
• universal suffrage.  
• nullification.  

The Dred Scott Decision angered northerners because it ? 

• said the Republican party was unconstitutional.  
• said John Brown was guilty of murder.  
• upheld the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
• allowed slavery in all the territories.  

The Fugitive Slave Law and Uncle Tom's Cabin caused many northerners to?

• distrust abolition.
• back Stephen Douglas for President.
• support abolition.
• favor secesseion from the Union.  

Lincoln won the election of 1860 largely because?

• abolitionists had become the majority.  
• free blacks in the North supported him.
• Douglas threw his support behind Lincoln.  
• northerners outnumbered southerners and outvoted them.  

Free-soilers believed _________was more efficient because the workers were motivated to work

• Free labor

• Slave labor

What state was added as part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California
• Texas
• Missouri
• Kansas

Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case? 

• Roger Taney
• John Crittenden
• John Marshall
• Stephen A. Douglas

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Preston Brooks