American History Quiz

The Underground Railroad was a network of...

• secret routes and safe houses for escaping enslaved African Americans.

• underground markets for buying and selling enslaved African Americans.

• run by the secret society of proslavery supporters.

• underground tunnels for transporting enslaved African Americans.

The Compromise of 1850 provided proslavery supporters with...

• the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

• Utah as a slave state.

• California as a free state.

• Every answer is correct

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to

• the Missouri Compromise.

• Nonviolent Nebraska.

• the Compromise of 1850.

• Bleeding Kansas.

Bleeding Kansas was a violent conflict

• between proslavery and antislavery groups in Kansas.

• between antislavery groups in Kansas

• caused by Kansas banning slavery.

• between proslavery groups in Kansas

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates made

• Stephen Douglas famous

• Lincoln's ideas on slavery known.

• Presidential Debates popular.

• Lincoln form the Republican Party.

What was the significance of the Election of 1860?

• Stephen Douglas was assassinated.

• Several southern states seceded the Union.

• Only southern states voted for Lincoln.

• It resulted in the abolition of slavery in the North.

What was the importance of Fort Sumpter?

• It was where Lincoln was inaugurated.

• It was used by Union Army to win the Civil War.

• It was where Abraham Lincoln was buried.

• It was where the Civil War began.

Which states were the Border States during the Civil War?

• The slave states along the East Coast

• The states that remained slave states after the Civil War

• The slave states that were also Union states

• The slave states along the Gulf Coast

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

• An order by Lincoln to free slaves in Confederate territory.

• A declaration by Lincoln to declare war on the Confederate states.

• A law to abolish slavery.

• A treaty by Lincoln to end the Civil War.

What was Lincoln's initial aim during the Civil War?

• Preserve the Union

• Expand slavery in the North

• End slavery

• Help legitimize the Confederacy