Civil War Quiz 12/16

The South was a great place for growing certain crops that could not grow in the North because its climate had

• long, cold winters and short, rainy summers.
• warm, sunny winters and stormy summers.
• mild winters and long, hot, humid summers.
• very harsh winters and comfortable summers.

What event brought about the Compromise of 1850?

• Texas wanted to become a slave state
• Oregon was being claimed by four countries
• California wanted to enter the Union as a free state
• The abolitionists wanted an agreement to end slavery

Who was involved in solving the Nullification Crisis, the Missouri Compromise, and Compromise of 1850?

• Abe Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• Henry Clay

• George Washington

What resulted in fugitive slaves having to flee to Canada for safety rather than just northern states?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification Crisis

• Kansas Nebraska Act

This person was known as "The Great Compromiser"

• Henry Clay
• John C. Calhoun
• Harriet Tubman
• Abraham Lincoln

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 & the Great Compromise of 1850 settled what?

• how new states would be admitted to the Union
• issues over slave territories
• where Native Americans would settle
• boundaries between free and slave states

What were the economic differences between the North & South before the Civil War?

• South and North were almost all agriculture
• South was almost all manufacturing & North was almost all agriculture
• Both were equally manufacturing & agriculture
• North was almost all manufacturing & the South was almost all agriculture

This term means a tax on imported goods:

• Free enterprise
• Tariff
• Mercantilism
• Capitalism

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

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

• slavery
• state's rights
• secede
• Gettysburg

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