Causes of the Civil War Quiz

How did the Dred Scott case push the nation closer to the Civil War? Choose 2 answers.

• Supreme Court ruled slaves were personal property

• Supreme Court ruled that slavery was illegal

• Supreme Court ruled slavery could not be stopped in territories

• Supreme Court ruled that the number of slaves owned by one person would be limited.

In the Compromise of 1850, who decided if a state would allow slavery or not?

• the federal government

• the north

• Congress

• the people who lived in each state/territory

_______ won the Presidential election of 1860.

• Abraham Lincoln, Republican

• Abraham Lincoln, Democrat

• Stephan Douglas, Democrat

• John Breckenridge, Republican

Which BEST describes a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• A slave had the right to sue for freedom in a federal court 
• A slave was only a citizen after he or she purchased freedom
• A slave was not a citizen but rather the property of an owner
• A slave who lived on free soil for any length of time was free

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

Which labor intensive crop became "King" in the South after Eli Whitney's invention?

• tabacco

• cotton

• wheat

• indigo

Which Supreme Court case determined that African Americans were not citizens of the United States and slavery could exist anywhere in the US?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Gibbons v. Ogden

Which of the following was an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Both were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law and returned to the South.
• Only escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California.
• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C., slave markets
• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.

This term means people vote on an issue: 

• republicanism
• checks and balances
• popular sovereignty
• separation of powers

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.

• true

• false