Countdown to Civil War_CORE ASSESSMENT

What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• a. provide safety for escaped slaves

• b. ban slavery in Washington

• c. force all Americans to help catch escaped slaves

• d. replacing slaves through the transatlantic slave trade

Which of the following describes the concept of “popular sovereignty?”

• a. Congress has the right to decide where slavery shall and shall not exist.

• b. The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.

• c. Individual citizens can decide for themselves whether or not to hold slaves.

• d. Individual states have the right to reject congressional decisions pertaining to slavery.

In 1860 and 1861, seven Southern states seceded from the Union in protest of the

• a. Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott

• b. Lincoln’s handling of Fort Sumter

• c. election of Abraham Lincoln as president

• d. Bleeding Kansas

In an effort to retain states rights and keep the institution of slavery, southern states formed the

• a. Know Nothing Party

• b. Free Soil Party

• c. Confederate States of America

• d. Freedom States of America

In the years prior to the Civil War, the South

• a. had become more urban than the North

• b. had widespread education

• c. was rich in manufacturing

• d. had a sparse population compared to the North

The proposal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• a. became a peaceful compromise to the slave question in those territories

• b. proved Abraham Lincoln could compete with Stephen Douglas in a campaign

• c. drove many proslavery settlers out of the Kansas Territory

• d. in effect broke the Missouri Compromise

The Free-soil platform

• a. opposed (went against) the expansion of slavery into the western territories

• b. believed that immigration led to crime and Irish and Germans stole jobs

• c. led to the formation of the Whig Party

• d. was largely popular in the South

The Freeport Doctrine led to

• a. the South supporting Stephen Douglas

• b. the downfall of Stephen Douglas’ presidential campaign

• c. Abraham Lincoln winning the election of 1858

• d. Abraham Lincoln losing the election of 1860

In the 1850’s, the South differed from the North in that the South had

• a. a better-developed transportation system.

• b. less interest in evangelical religion.

• c. a better educated white population.

• d. fewer European immigrants.

“The government ought to stop those aliens from coming in and taking jobs from Americans.” This statement expresses an idea most closely related to

• a. assimilation.

• b. patriotism.

• c. nativism.

• d. protectionism.