Causes of the Civil War Quiz

Part A: What initial law caused northerners to create these types of announcements?

• The Underground Railroad
• Fugitive Act
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Black Codes

Part B: Which evidence from the image supports the answer in Part A?

• "Colored people of Boston"
• "Watchmen and Police Officers of Boston"
• "Kidnappers and Slave Catchers"
• "Keep a sharp look out"

Which region’s primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Which outcome best completes this diagram?

• American Revolution
• Popular Sovereignty
• Manifest Destiny
• Civil War

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature.
• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts.
• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased.
• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories.

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?
• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?
• Should the U.S. expand westward?
• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

In 1854, Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave from Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested in Boston and returned to Virginia. Which federal legislation provided the basis for Burns’s arrest?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Homestead Act
• The Gadsden Purchase
• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

The two shaded states on this map were admitted to the Union under the terms of a compromise involving the—

• resolution of a boundary dispute with Great Britain
• expansion of slavery into western territories
• relocation of American Indians to western territories
• counting of the slave population for purposes of representation

These headlines refer to the decision in which Supreme Court case?

• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Worcester v. Georgia
• Dred Scott v. Sandford

Which location on the map was the site of the fighting that broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups?

• A
• B
• C
• D