American Civil War Quiz 1

What controversy divided the nation and was created by the new territory gained from the Mexican-American War?

• Expansion of slavery into new territory

• Immigration

• Granting citizenship to new residents of the new territory

• Wars with American Indians

In 1850 how many Southerners owned slaves in the South?

• 350,000

• 1,000,000

• 500,000

• 100,000

What is the North's economy based on?

• Manufacturing

• Agriculture

• Service

• War

What is the South's economy based on?

• Agriculture

• Manufacturing

• War

• Service

How does the North interpret the Constitution?

• Strong national government

• States Rights

• Loose interpretation

• Imperial America

How does the South interpret the Constitution?

• States Rights

• Strong national government

• Loose interpretation

• Imperial America

What Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, Maine enters as a free state, and all future states above Missouri's southern border would be free states?

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

What is the term for a population of a territory voting to determine if the territory would be slave or free?

• Popular sovereignty

• Self-determination

• Popular opinion

• Plurality

What Compromise allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and popular sovereignty is granted to all territory acquired from Mexico?

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

What slave led a slave revolt after believing visions and solar events were messages from God telling him to lead a rebellion?

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Billy Lee