The Civil War Review (Part 1)

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• Maine would be admitted as a free state.

• The southern boundary of Missouri (36 degrees, 30 minutes North latitude) became a dividing line for any new states admitted to the Union.

• Missouri would be admitted as a slave state.

• It included a Fugitive Slave Law in which Northerners had to return escaped slaves to their Southern masters.

The __________ Party was formed in 1848 to opposed the expansion of slavery.

• Republican

• Bull Moose

• Free Soil

• Libertarian

Which of the following WAS NOT true of the Compromise of 1850?

• The Fugitive Slave Law allowed slavery in western territories.

• California entered the Union as a free state.

• People in the Utah and New Mexico territories used popular sovereignty to decide whether to be a slave or free state.

• Unorganized territories that did not yet have governments would be free.

The Compromise of 1850 ended the balance of free and slave states established by the __________ and gave free states a majority in the Senate.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise

• Mexican-American War

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Because Kansas and Nebraska laid north of the 36 degrees, 30 minutes boundary line, the Kansas-Nebraska Act did away with the __________.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Law

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to (select two answers):

• the search for new territories to free.

• using a geographical line to distinguish slave and free states.

• the formation of the Republican Party.

• a compromise about slavery that lasted for ten years.

• slavery becoming once again an explosive political issue.

Which of the following DID NOT make up the newly formed Republican Party?

• Free Soilers

• Southern Democrats

• Whigs

• Northern Democrats

What was the stance of the Republican Party regarding slavery?

• Slavery should not be allowed to expand to western territories.

• It should be abolished.

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

• The federal government had to power over slavery.

What did John Brown hope to achieve by raiding the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?

• to bring the two sides together to form a new compromise

• to bring attention to the conflict between the North and the South

• to create a rebellion led by enslaved people that would bring an end to slavery

• to create a revolution that would lead to a war between the states

What was the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court

• that slavery should be abolished by executive order

• that slavery diminished the national character

• that African American rights were protected by the Constitution