Chapter 16 Steps to Civil War Test Review

What happened with California was admitted to the Union?

• It gave free states an advantage over slave states

• It extended slavery into the Mexican Cession

• It restored the balance of free and slave states in the Union

• It gave slave states an advantage over free states

Which quote would Senator John C. Calhoun support the most?

• "Saving the Union is more important than states' rights."

• "The federal government should decide how states deal with slavery."

• "States' rights are more important than the Union."

• "New territories should us popular sovereignty to determine slavery issues."

Which immediate event caused the South to secede?

• Lincoln declared war on Southern states

• John Brown started a slave uprising

• Lincoln was elected President

• The Dred Scott Decision

Why would some historians say that economy, not just slavery or states' rights, is a cause of the Civil War?

• The U.S. will lose England as a trading partner if the South secedes

• Without the South's cotton, Europe and America's economy will suffer

• England will not be affected by the issue of slavery in the U.S.

• The South depended only on Europe to buy its cotton

Why was "Bleeding Kansas" considered a small-scale civil war?

• Abolitionists destroyed southern towns and forced pro-slavery supporters to relocate

• The abolitionist government was forced to relocate to Nebraska

• The two governments in Kansas came to a peaceful resolution

• Abolitionists and pro-slavery supporters reacted violently

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was demanded by southern Congressmen?

• The admission of California as a free state

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The end of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• Putting slavery to a vote in Northern states

What event caused Charles Sumner to be attacked?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin published

• Passage of the Compromise of 1850

• Election of 1860

• Debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act

What political party believed that their members "should not cast a vote for a slaveholder or a pro-slavery man"?

• Southern Democrats

• Republicans

• Whigs

• Constitutional Union

How did John Brown cause further sectionalism?

• He determined the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

• He hotly debated slavery in the Senate

• He published Uncle Tom's Cabin

• His death was mourned differently in the North than in the South

What was the effect of the Dred Scott decision?

• Scott was allowed to be free

• Slaves were called property and slavery was allowed to expand

• Slavery was abolished

• The Compromise of 1850 was declared unconstitutional