Unit three: Civil War Causes

Which of the following 1787 compromises determined how representation in congress would be allotted in regards to the enslaved population in the United States.

• The 3/5 Compromise

• The Virginia Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the 1820 Missouri Compromise?

• The compromise divided the nation into northern (free) states and southern slave states.

• New states above the 36th parallel would be admitted to the union as free states

• Under the compromise Missouri was admitted as a free state.

• Under the compromise Maine was admitted as a free state.

Which event most directly led to the secession of southern states and the creation of the Confederate States of America?

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Emancipation Proclimation

• John Brown's Raid

• The Election of 1860

Who led a raid into the Harper's Ferry ,VA in an attempt to start a slave rebellion?

• John Brown

• Jefferson Davis

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglas

Which of the following is true of the compromise of 1850?

• It ushered in the fugitive slave act, which allowed former slaves to capture plantation owners and take their property after the civil war.

• It settled the issue of admitting slave states or free states to the union by allowing them to use popular sovereignty to make the choice.

• It brought California into the Union as a slave state

• It forced Utah to enter the Union as a free state.

Bleeding Kansas was a series violent acts between 1854 and 1861 that was a result of what act?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Kansas Act of 1853

• The Missouri-Kansas Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

The 1857 supreme court case that settled the issue of slaves becoming citizens and obtaining freedom by living in "free states" is known as?

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Marbury v Madison

• Gibbons v Ogden

• Gideon v Wainwright

California was worth 4 electoral college votes when Lincoln became president. How many electoral college votes is California worth today?

• 55

• 12

• 38

• 29