Unit 8-9 Retest

Henry Clay believed the South should accept the Compromise of 1850 because

• the US would be preserved as one

• California would be a slave state

• Native American lands would be given to Anglo farmers

• it would give the nation the Fugitive Slave Law

Which statement best completes this cause-effect diagram?

• Ulysses S. Grant becomes General of the Union Army

• South Carolina secedes from the Union

• The Thirteenth Amendment is passed by Congress

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act results in bloodshed

The best selection to complete 4 is -

• eliminated the practice of slavery in the North

• overturned the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

• affected both freemen and slaves

The best selection to complete 5 is -

• abolitionist movement

• temperance movement

• transcendentalist movement

According to this excerpt Abraham Lincoln holds that -

• slavery should be allowed to spread to western territories

• the Unites States should seek to acquire more land from Mexico

• the 13 Colonies should not have seceded from Britain

• despite differences all states must remain a part of the Union

Which of the following best completes this chart?

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Nullification Crisis

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• South Carolina secedes

Match the following

• West

• Natural waterways powered machines in factories

• South

• Fertile soil for cash crops

• North

• Mining for gold and other natural resources

One result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was -

• Americans were united over the democratic process

• slavery was outlawed across the United States

• Americans fought against each other over the issue of slavery

• African Americans were ruled to be property

According to this political cartoon, what was one of the major reasons for the Civil War?

• Slavery

• Tariffs

• Industrialization

• The Compromise of 1850

How did the growth of slavery in the mid-1800s lead to the Civil War?

Select TWO correct answers. 

• Abolitionists traveled to the South and burned many cotton plantations to free slaves.

• The Republican Party was created to challenge the issue of allowing slavery in western territories.

• Southerners argued that the federal government could not interfere with the South’s right to keep slaves.

• The Democratic Party prevented Abraham Lincoln from taking the presidency and expanding slavery.