The Causes of the Civil War Quiz

Who proposed popular sovereignty in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• Stephen Douglas

• John Bell

• John Breckenridge

• Abraham Lincoln

What did Abraham Lincoln believe about the government in his speech for the Senate nomination?

• It will remain divided

• It will become all one thing

• It will become all the other

• It will dissolve

Which political party believed in growth without slavery and nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in the 1860 election?

• Republicans

• Northern Democratic party

• Pro-slavery southern Democrats

• Constitutional Union political party

How many southern states did not have Abraham Lincoln's name on the ballot in the 1860 election?

• Five

• Nine

• Seven

• Eleven

What did the South Carolina state legislature vote for on Dec. 20, 1860?

• To elect a new president

• To abolish slavery

• To dissolve the union with South Carolina

• To join the Union

What did the Three-Fifths Compromise ensure about enslaved people?

• They were given the right to vote

• They were counted as full persons

• They were still legally considered property

• They were considered citizens

What did the Missouri Compromise admit the Missouri territory as?

• A free state

• A slave state

• A neutral state

• An independent state

What did the Compromise of 1850 make illegal within Washington, D.C.?

• Voting rights

• Buying and selling of people

• Owning property

• Freedom of speech

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal?

• The Gag rule in Congress

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820

What did the Dred Scott decision rule about enslaved people?

• They were free

• They were citizens

• They were property

• They had the right to vote