Road to Civil War

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

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

The Republican candidate for the presidency in 1860 was

• Bell

• Douglass

• Lincoln

• Buchanan

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

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

Why did the Democratic Party split?

• taxes

• slavery

• territorial boundaries

• Lincoln becoming President

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

The political uproar over the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to

• the death of the Whig party

• a tough, new Fugitive Slave Act

• the legalization of slavery in Kansas

• the resignation of Douglass from the Senate

Lincoln focused the most on…

• keeping the Union together any way he could.

• abolishing slavery throughout the United States

• punishing the states that seceded from the United States.

• all of the above

Which of the following resulted from the events at Harpers Ferry?

• Northern support for the anti-slavery cause diminished

• John Brown was tried for treason and sentenced to death

• Enslaved persons started a nationwide revolt

• Abolitionist forces liberated enslaved persons throughout the area