Pre-Quiz for the Causes of the Civil War

Which compromise allowed California to become a free state?

• Compromise of 1820

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• The Great Compromise

Who was elected President in 1860, which led to the secession of South Carolina?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• Frederick Douglass

• John C. Calhoun

The act of withdrawing or leaving the United States is called

• Secession

• Nullification

• Abolition

• Declaring Independence

Industrialization, slavery, states' rights, and nullification all worked together to create a division between the North and the South. This division is known as

• Sectionalism

• Abolishonism

• Seperatism

• Communism

South Carolina threatened to nullify the Tariff of 1828 and 1832. Why?

• They believed that it hurt the South because it taxed imported goods

• They believed that it hurt the North because it taxed cotton exports

• They believed that it would slow down manifest destiny

• They believed that it would slow down the international slave trade

The Georgia Platform was proposed by Alexander Stephens to support _______.

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which of the following were outcomes of the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?

• The Supreme Court said that African-Americans were not citizens and had no right to sue in court.

• The Supreme Court said that the U.S. Government could not stop slavery in the territories.

• The Supreme Court said that Dred Scott was a free man since he lived in a free state and territory.

• The Supreme Court said that Dred Scott could only be free while he lived in a free state or territory.

The Tariff of 1828 and 1832 that put a tax on imports from Europe were designed to help ______.

• Northern factories

• Southern plantations

• Western cattle rachers

• Northern coal miners

Under the Georgia Platform, this region had to agree to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act.

• North

• South

The economy of this region was highly dependent on cash crops, such as cotton.

• North

• South