Causes of the Civil War

What was the name of the compromise at the Constitutional Convention that kept slavery legal?

• the Five-Eighths Compromise

• the Three-Fifths Compromise

• the Property Compromise

• the Virginia Compromise

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow?

• slavery in new territories

• no slavery in new territories

• the people to vote for or against legalized slavery

• Congress to decide about legalized slavery

What did “Bleeding Kansas” show about the country?

• It was united about slavery.

• It was ready for war

• It was divided about slavery.

• It was ready to vote for slavery.

What did the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court state?

• Enslaved people were property, not citizens.

• Enslaved people were citizens.

• Enslaved people had rights and liberty.

• Enslaved people shouldn’t be in court

The Dred Scott case went to the Supreme Court ___________.

• quickly, in a few months

• after Scott was freed

• after Scott had died

• after 11 years

What two state borders formed the Mason-Dixon line?

• Maryland and Delaware

• Maryland and Virginia

• Pennsylvania and Maryland

• Pennsylvania and Virginia

Why did the raiders want the weapons at Harpers Ferry?

• so the army wouldn’t have them

• to create an army of pro slavery

• to give them to the South

• to create an army of abolitionists

Who were the two men that debated for the Illinois Senate seat in 1858? ln

• Donna Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Sondheim and Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

Where was Lincoln’s name on the ballot for the presidential election?

• only the Southern states

• only the Northern states

• only the Western states

• all the states

Lincoln became the presidential candidate for what political party?

• Democrat

• Whig

• Jeffersonian Republican

• Republican