Review Quiz: Lead Up to Civil War

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

• California was admitted as a free state.

• Slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C

• Maine was admitted as a free state.

• The Fugitive Slave Act was passed.

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Match the following

• California is a free state and Fugitive Slave Law is passed

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• part of the Compromise of 1850, runaway slaves were to be captured and returned to the South

• Fugitive Slave Law

• said citizens and not Congress would decide on issue of slavery, resulted in violence

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• ruled slaves were property & not citizens, said Congress had no right to ban slavery in territories

• Compromise of 1850

What best completes the chart?

• Shipbuilding and Urban Society

• Mining and Rural Society

• Rural and Agricultural Society

• Manufacturing and Urban Society

What region of the United States is shown in the picture?

• North

• South

• Western Territories

• Southwest

Under the _____________, California entered the Union as a Free State and the Southwest territories would decide the slavery issue for themselves.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Emancipation Proclamation

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act decide?

• The people living the Kansas and Nebraska territories would decide the slavery issue for themselves by popular sovereignty.

• There would always be a balance of Free States and Slave States in the Union.

• Kansas and Nebraska would be free of slavery.

• Kansas and Nebraska were added as slave states.

The South was primarily an ______ society in which people lived in small villages and on farms and plantations.

• urban

• rural / agricultural

• suburban

The North was mainly an _____ society in which people worked for wages.

• urban

• rural

• suburban

Which statement best describes the North's beliefs about slavery?

• It was necessary to keep Northern textile mills running

• The Northern economy would be destroyed if slavery ended

• Slavery was morally wrong and violated the principles of democracy

Which statement best describes the South's beliefs about slavery?

• Slavery should not expand to any new Western territory

• The Southern economy would be destroyed if slavery ended

• Slavery was morally wrong and violated the principles of democracy