The American Civil War

Under which compromise did Missouri enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Great Compromise

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

What 1850 law helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Homestead Act

• Civil Rights Act

California became a free state as part of which compromise?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which book published in 1852 further divided the North and South?

• The Grapes of Wrath

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

• The Confessions of Nat Turner

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Which law led to bloodshed in the West, allowing residents in new territories the right to choose to be free or slave?

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Homestead Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

Allowing residents the right to vote over whether to allow slavery is called __________.

• The Great Compromise

• popular sovereignty

• Abolition

• secession

The _______ Party was created to challenge the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• Free Soil

• Democratic

• Republican

• Libertarian

After Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860, the southern states began to _________.

• celebrate

• secede

• boycott northern business and manufacturing

• overthrow the government

To secede means to __________.

• protest

• challenge

• succeed

• Withdraw or leave

Which southern state was the first to secede from the Union?

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Georgia