The causes of the Civil War quiz

This law said Americans could _NOT help runaway slaves.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Case

Using the map on the webpage, answer the following question.

What percentage of the popular vote did Lincoln receive in the Election of 1860?

• 13

• 29

• 40

• 18

"Antebellum" means...

• A time of cotton.

• A time before a war.

• A time of slavery.

• A time before exploration.

Agreement that allowed the people to exercise their popular sovereignty to decide whether the area would be free or slave.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision

This term refers to the time before the Civil War where the country was divided over the issue of slavery.

• Regionalism

• Manifest Destiny

• Spoils System

• Sectionalism

What is slavery?

• When someone is paid $10.00 a hour without a break.

• Slavery is when someone is free to live life as they please. The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

• Slavery is the imprisonment either by status or barrier of a human being in order to compel them to work for free or substantially less than a normal rate. It is the raw imposition of one's will on another to the extent that their very life is seen as 'owned'.

• The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

The GA Platform did what? Select all correct answers.

• Outline southern rights. Established GA's conditional acceptance of Compromise of 1850.

• was a court house

• Make slavery illegal

• All of the Above

Why did some people in the North and the South have such different views about slavery ?

• The South’s economy depended on slavery and the North’s economy did not.

• Most people in the South believed slavery was morally wrong.

• Northerners thought slavery was destroying the national economy.

• Southerners wanted to eliminate slavery gradually; northerners all at once.

What was Abraham Lincoln's official stance on slavery during the presidential campaign of 1860?

• The African slave trade should be ended immediately.

• Slavery should not be allowed to spread into new United States territories.

• A constitutional convention should be held to resolve the issue.

• All slaves in the United States should be freed within ten years.

Staunch southern proponents of states’ rights believed that states had the right of nullification. Which of the following BEST defines nullification?

• refuse to enforce a federal law within state limits

• dismiss members of the Supreme Court if they disagreed with their rulings

• secede from the Union if it seemed necessary

• call into question a presidential election’s results