Ch 14-15 (The Civil War) PRACTICE TEST

Which compromise made in 1820 preserved the balance between slave states and free states?

• Missouri Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which part of the nation would be most in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Northern free states

• The Southern slave states

• California

• The states in New England

The Fugitive Slave Act...

• increased Underground Railroad Activity.

• led to resistance in the North.

• infuriated abolitionists.

• All of the above

Who is John Brown?

• A Violent Abolitionist

• A peaceful Abolitionist

• A Violent Slave Owner

• A Peaceful Slaveowner

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

• admission of Illinois to the Union

• economic issues

• slavery

• war with Mexico

Match the words with the correct definition.

• civil war

• a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country

• fugitive

• an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions

• popular sovereignty

• a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest

• compromise

• to formally discuss an issue

• debate

• the idea that the people in a territory should vote to allow slavery

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

• slaves could never become citizens

• Dred Scott must be freed

• slaves were property

• human beings were not property

Even though his name was not on the ballot in most Southern states, (a)   won the election of 1860.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge

​ (a)   was the first state to vote to secede from the Union.

• South Carolina
• Georgia
• New York
• Tennessee

​ (a)   planned to raid ​ (b)   in order to capture the federal ​ (c)   to arm slaves and start a ​ (d)   .

• John Brown
• Harpers Ferry, VA
• arsenal
• rebellion
• Stephen Douglas
• Charleston, SC
• bank
• railroad