8th Grade Midterm 2023

What caused a lot of violence, but advocated for popular sovereignty?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

Lincoln's election as president lead to this

• state's rights

• Southern states seceding from the union 

• lack of government support

The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were beneficial to the south because

• they caused the US to unite and form a strong federal government

• they were the beginning of the Temperance movement

• they brought about the use of popular sovereignty to make decision about slavery

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to this

• John Brown's Raid

• Missouri Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

Who was the enslaved man who argued for his freedom because he used to live in a free state?

• Dred Scott

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

• Harriett Tubman

Which part of the United States relied heavily on agriculture? 

• North

• South

Which part of the United States relied heavily on industry? 

• North

• South

The Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in 

• Atlanta

• New York City

• Washington D.C

• All states

Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War?

• Washington, D.C.

• Appomattox Court House, Virginia

• Richmond, Virginia

• Atlanta, Georgia

Which document signed by Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves on January 1, 1863, in the states that were still in rebellion?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Compromise of 1850

• The Gettysburg Address