Searching for Compromise, Challenges of Slavery, and Secession

According to the bar graph, who received the fewest electoral votes in the 1860 presidential election?

• A) Bell
• B) Breckenridge
• C) Douglas
• D) Lincoln

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

• A) Texas
• B) Maryland
• C) Missouri
• D) South Carolina

Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?

• A) Abraham Lincoln
• B) Jefferson Davis
• C) Robert E. Lee
• D) Stephen Douglas

Which of these concepts did secessionists use to support their views?

• A) constitutionalism
• B) federalism
• C) popular sovereignty
• D) states’ rights

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

• A) attack on Fort Sumter
• B) Lincoln-Douglas debates
• C) Lincoln inauguration
• D) secession of South Carolina

In which state did the Civil War begin?

• A) Kansas
• B) Missouri
• C) South Carolina
• D) Texas

Which “property of this kind” is being referred to in Taney’s decision?

• A) an Act of Congress
• B) Dred Scott and his family
• C) the Missouri Compromise
• D) United States territories

The South was mostly pleased by the Dred Scott decision because the Supreme Court ruled that

• A) Dred Scott could own slaves.
• B) Dred Scott must be freed.
• C) restricting slavery was unconstitutional.
• D) human beings were not property.

Which Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved persons were property?

• A) Clay decision
• B) Dred Scott decision
• C) Fugitive Slave decision
• D) John Brown decision

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

• A) admission of Illinois to the Union
• B) economic issues
• C) slavery
• D) war with Mexico