Manifest Destiny, Abolition, Reform & Civil War Causes

Who invaded the Harper's Ferry arsenal to end slavery through violence?

• William T. Sherman

• John Brown

• John Calhoun

• Henry David Thoreau

Who fought to provide asylums for the mentally ill in the 1800s?

• Sojourner Truth

• Abigail Adams

• Dorothea Dix

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Which event was one cause of the U.S.-Mexican War?

• The US banned slavery in territories acquired from Mexico

• The U.S. Congress debated statehood for New Mexico

• The United States acquired the Mexican Cession

• U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought over disputed territory north of the Rio Grande

What maintained the balance between the number of free states and slave states in the Senate?

• Missouri Compromise

• Sectionalism

• McCulloch vs Maryland

• Compromise of 1850

Which of the following was against the expansion of slavery into the western territories?

• Democratic Party

• The Confederacy

• South Carolina

• Republican Party

Which of the following were the Causes of the Civil War? (Select ALL that apply)

• States' Right

• Tariffs

• Sectionalism

• Slavery

Who organized the 1st Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls to fight for women's suffrage?

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Susan B. Anthony

Which religious movement promoted the end of slavery?

• Transcendentalism

• Temperance Movement

• Second Great Awakening

• Era of Good Feelings

What is being described by this image?

• Early Spanish explorers

• Manifest Destiny

• European immigration

• The Civil War

Which Federal law forced all Americans to help capture runaway slaves & return them to their masters?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Quartering Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Navigation Act