Factors Leading to the Civil War Quiz

Where did thousands of people go for the "gold" rush in 1849?

• California

• Oregon

• Delaware

• Mississippi

This was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1850

• Underground Railroad

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Proviso

What was the key difference between the Northern and Southern economies that helped lead to war?

• The Southern economy depended on slavery and the Northern economy did not

• The North was predominantly Protestant and had organized religion

• North was more populous than the South

• the South was agricultural and the North focused on Industry

This act established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and allowed residents to decide on whether or not to allow slavery in the newly established territories

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 included five different laws. Which law was beneficial to the North as part of this compromise?

• South would have to pay the North for any captured slaves

• South promised to reduce the number of slaves

• Slavery was outlawed in the Louisiana territory

• California was admitted as a free state

The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the

• payment to slaveholders for escaped slaves

• safe passage for slaves

• expansion of slavery to free slaves

• recovery of runaway slaves

What arsenal did John Brown attack in 1859?

• Kansas

• Harper's Ferry

• Pottawatomie Massacre

The idea that people should be allowed to vote whether or not to have slavery in a territory is known as.....

• Compromise

• Popular vote

• Popular sovereignty

The institution of slavery was an issue that.....

• never arose as a concern until the 1800s and Lincoln's election as president

• many American settlers did not concern themselves with as territories began to organize into states

• was ended when Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, which banned slavery in the U.S.

• created division within the country following the American Revolutionary war

Which state was admitted as a free state as a result of the Missouri compromise that added Missouri as a slave state?

• Louisiana
• California
• Maine
• Florida