Causes of the Civil War Review

The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to ___.

• prevent slaves from testifying against whites in court trials

• prevent slaves from having group gatherings or meetings

• require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to obtain jobs

• require slaves that had run away to go back to their owners

Someone who believed in states’ rights would probably support which statement?

• States should only pass legislation on issues set out in the U.S. Constitution.

• National laws always take precedence over state laws

• The national government has no right to tell states how to operate

• Disputes between states should always be settled by the national government

How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?

• It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.

• It made the Mississippi River the dividing line between slave states and free states

• It prohibited slavery in states above the 36⁰30’N line

• It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri

The “Georgia Platform” was a statement supporting ___, as long as the north respected and followed the guidelines of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• slavery throughout the U.S.

• popular sovereignty

• the Compromise of 1850

• states’ rights

Which is a reason many Georgia plantation owners favored secession?

• a desire for increased markets in the North

• the need to import large numbers of new slaves

• fear that abolition would end their way of life

• trouble getting agricultural loans from Northern banks 

The political conflict surrounding the Compromise of 1850 showed that people in the United States ___.

• Were opposed to westward expansion

• Continued to be divided on the issue of slavery

• Were consumed by the desire to “get rich quick” from gold mining

• Believed Native Americans should be forced to live on reservations

Which region of the United States believed that states should be able to govern themselves without interference from the national government?

• Southern states

• Pacific Coast states

• Northern states

• Great Lake states

The Dred Scott decision made by the Supreme Court in 1857 declared that ___.

• a slave in a non-slave state was considered free

• slaves were property and had no constitutional rights

• Dred Scott should be set free and given protection in the North

• slave owners had to pay slaves a fair wage

Which event led to a special legislative session in Georgia to consider seceding from the Union?

• John Brown's Raid

• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the firing upon Fort Sumter

• Lincoln's presidential election

The early 1800s belief of some people that a state could ignore a federal law was known as ___.

• justification

• nullification

• absolution

• ratification