
Road to Civil War
Authored by Bonnie Jameson
History
11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Popular sovereignty
was supported by Democratic presidential candidate in 1848
was used to settle the fate of slavery in the Utah and New Mexico territories
was the idea that the people in the territory should determine whether slavery was to be allowed
all of the above
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
California’s desire to be admitted to the Union as a free state created a crisis because
a free California would violate the Missouri Compromise
the Forty-Niners had brought many enslaved people with them
the Free-Soil Party opposed the admission of any more states
it would upset the balance of Northern and Southern representation in the Senate
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Republican candidate for the presidency in 1860 was
Bell
Douglass
Lincoln
Buchanan
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The principal points of the Dred Scott Decision included
enslaved people could sue for their freedom in federal courts
enslaved people could not be considered citizens
the Missouri Compromise was legal and proper
none of the above
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Among the measures contained in the Compromise of 1850 was the
repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law
admission of California as a slave state
abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia
all of the above
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did the Democratic Party split?
taxes
slavery
territorial boundaries
Lincoln becoming President
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The main event that caused the South to secede was
John Brown’s raid
the Republican Party
Lincoln’s election to the presidency
the passage of the federal personal liberty law
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