Causes of the Civil War

People who opposed slavery were known as:

• Abolitionists

• Secessionists

• Sharecroppers

• Confederates

Which northern state was admitted to the United States as a free state as part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine

• California

• Michigan

• Minnesota

The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states:

• Compromise of 1850

• Georgia Platform

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What does the term “popular sovereignty” describe?

• The right of the states to vote on laws

• Abolitionism

• The right of the federal government to nullify laws

• The vote to end the Civil War

Which law allowed popular sovereignty in several U.S. territories?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Georgia Platform

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

What is being described: Maine had to agree to outlaw slavery, territories wanted to become new states, and abolitionists wanted to change laws?

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Platform

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

In what way is the Kansas-Nebraska Act similar to both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

• Each decided the legality of slavery in new states.

• Each was concerned with religion.

• Each was written to end the Civil War.

• Each was written by Alexander Stephens.

Which statement describes the outcome of the Dred Scott case?

• The U.S. Supreme Court decided against Scott.

• The U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to the Missouri Supreme Court.

• The Georgia court system changed the laws of Missouri.

• Missouri granted Scott the right to be free.

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. He was a

• Republican

• Democrat

• Confederate

• Independent

The economy of the South depended largely on

• Slave labor.

• New technology.

• Manufacturing.

• Politics.