Quizziz #11 (Events Leading to the Civil War)

Lincoln's election as president lead to this

• Southern states seceding from the union 
• state's rights
• lack of government support

Secession can be defined as

• adding to a country
• withdrawing from the union
• freedom for slaves

Which came first, the Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1850?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850

As a result of the MO Compromise, Maine became a free state and ___________ became a slave state.

• Louisiana

• Alabama

• Kansas

• Missouri

The Compromise of 1850 admitted _________ as a free state.

• Arizona

• California

• New Mexico

• Utah

What law compelled the North to return runaway slaves back to the South?

• Fugitive Dog Acts
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Abolition Act of 1850
• I refuse to answer this question based on the fact I have not studied!

The Compromise of 1850 outlawed slave auctions in...

• Washington, DC

• Richmond

• New Orleans

• Charleston

What did the Compromise of 1850 say about the other territories acquired by the US from Mexico?

• The people would decide whether they wanted slavery.

• They would automatically become slave states.

• Slavery was banned.

• All of the above.

Known as the "Great Compromiser" this senator creates the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and the Compromise of 1850.

• Henry Calhoun

• Henry Douglas

• Henry Ford

• Henry Clay

All f these are causes of the Civil War except

• The Election of 1850

• The Dred Scott Decision

• The Kansas Nebraska Act

• John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry