Causes of the Civil War Formative Assessment #1

This law said Americans could vote if their state should be free or have slaves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

What was the key issue that was debated each time a new state was admitted to the Union before the Civil War?

• the expansion of slavery
• the building of railroads 
• the provision of women's suffrage
• support for the homesteading 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to people flooding into these territories from the north and south to vote on slavery. This led to what event?

• Bleeding Kansas

• Red Kansas

• Civil War I

• Missouri Compromise Conflict

Which famous abolitionist wrote a novel exposing the evils of slavery to the world?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Ernest Hemingway

Each state should be able to decide their issues for themselves and the Federal Government should not interfere.

• slavery
• state's rights
• secede
• Gettysburg

A consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:

• violence between pro-slavery and abolitionist groups
• gold was discovered in Nebraska
• John Brown led a slave revolt
• Dred Scott sued for his freedom

California was admitted into the Union, Utah and New Mexico were able to choose (free or slave state) and settled border disputes from war with Mexico. 

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise 1820
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision 

What problem did the Missouri Compromise solve?

• Southern states wanted a free state.
• It made an equal number of slave and free states.
• It made more slave states.
• It made more free states.

Believing that your section of the country is more important than the rest of the country is...

• partisanship
• Civil War
• sectionalism
• treason

California joined as a free state and the South received the Fugitive Slave Law.

• Missouri Compromise 1820
• Wilmot Proviso
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850