Causes of the Civil War Test Review

This was a book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery. 

• Harriet's Cabin
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Slavery 
• State's Rights

Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country?

• Nationalism
• Sectionalism
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession

Who is the slave or former slave that took his case all the way to the Federal Supreme Court and lost his case trying to gain his freedom?

• Stephen Douglas

• Plessy Ferguson

• Dred Scott

• Fredrick Douglas

Protective Tariffs caused the price of ____ to go up.

• foreign goods

• american made goods

• ice cream

• slaves

What occurred as a result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• All abolitionist groups and freed slaves left Kansas
• Kansas became a slave state
• Border ruffians invaded and took control of Nebraska
• Bloody conflicts broke out in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

In the Missouri Compromise...

• Maine and California joined the union as free states.

• Missouri and Maine got to choose whether to be slave states or free states.

• Missouri joined the union as a slave state, but Maine was admitted as a free state.

• Arkansas became a slave state

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin affect the climate prior to the Civil War?

• It told the slaves that they should rebel

• It changed attitudes in society (especially in the North) about slavery

• It helped Abraham Lincoln to get elected

• It made William Lloyd Garrison burn the Constitution

In the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Court ruled that -

• slavery was constitutional and slaves were property

• slavery was illegal and could not expand

• slavery was only legal in the South

• slavery's legality would be evaluated in 20 years