Countdown to Civil War

Nat Turner led 70 slaves in Virginia during an uprising that killed __ white men, women, & children

• 45

• 55

• 65

• 75

What state nullified the Tariff of 1828 and was later the first to succeed the union?

• North Carolina

• Virginia

• South Carolina

• Florida

Who was the President that was a former U.S.-Mexican War hero, and later died in office?

• Zachary Taylor

• Millard Fillmore

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

What State became a "Free-State" in the Compromise of 1850?

• Maine

• Missouri

• Texas

• California

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to a wave of settlers moving to territories and large in crease in violence that was called __________?

• Civil War

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

• Mexican Cession

Stephen Douglas believed that territories should determine if the are Slave or Free States by voting, which is called: _______?

• Missouri Compromise

• Free Choice Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Fredrick Douglas

• Sojourner Truth

• Abraham Lincoln

Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the ________.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Underground Railroad

• Freedom Path

• Trail of Tears

The Kansas-Nebraska Act ended up creating what political party?

• Democrat

• Whig

• Republican

• American

What happened to Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate?

• He propose the Compromise of 1850

• He argued for "pro-slavery"

• He was caned

• He won the senate vote to abolish slavery