Causes of the Civil War

According to the text, what was the main cause of the Civil War?

• States rights

• Nationalism

• Economics

• Slavery

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What was the most controversial section of the Compromise of 1850?

• Fugitive slave law

• States rights

• Economic systems

• Abraham Lincoln's election

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What did the fugitive slave law require citizens to do?

• Turn in anyone they knew to be a slave

• Enforce a law they found abhorrent

• Become sheriffs

• All of the above

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Why was the fugitive slave law terrifying to people of color in the North?

• It allowed courts to send them into slavery

• It forced them to move to Canada

• It made them sheriffs

• It violated their rights as free individuals

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What conspiracy theory grew in importance due to the fugitive slave law?

• Slave power

• Secret cabal of powerful slaves

• Pro-slavery congressmen

• Sinister slave power

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What role did railroads play in the lead up to the Civil War?

• They made shipping cheaper and more efficient

• They allowed people to move around the country quickly

• They had a huge backer in Stephen Douglas

• All of the above

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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act formalize?

• Popular sovereignty

• Slavery in new states

• Stephen Douglas' support for slavery

• Repeal of the Missouri Compromise

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What political party was created as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Republicans

• Free-Soilers

• Northern anti-slavery Whigs

• Know-Nothings

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What did the Dred Scott decision declare about black people?

• They had no rights which the white man was bound to respect

• They were equal to white people

• They could not be enslaved

• They could vote and hold property

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Who won the presidential election of 1860?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• John C. Breckinridge

• John Bell

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