Causes of the Civil War

After reaching the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled against his case because as a slave, he had no rights. Which of the following cases was this?

• McCullogh v Maryland

• Marbury v Madison

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Worcester v. Georgia

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.

• Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856.

• Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas.

• The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise 1820 was extended further south.

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave law.

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California.

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C., slave markets.

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.

Which region's primary economic activity in 1861 was growing cotton?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which outcome best completes the diagram?

• American Revolution

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War

The start of the Civil War happened April 1861. Where did it take place?

• Harper's Ferry, VA

• Fort Sumter, South Carolina

• New York City, New York

• Philadelphia, PA

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of the congressional acts above?

• Should the U.S. expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

What action prompted the newspapers claim that John Brown's raid "advanced the cause of disunion"?

• Some Northerners were willing to defend the South's right to continue slavery.

• Some Southerners were willing to take up arms to protest high tariffs.

• Some abolitionists thought violence was necessary to end slavery.

• Some people in territories needed to defend their right to popular sovereignty.

Which of these events occurred about five weeks BEFORE South Carolina seceded from the Union?

• Attack on Harper's Ferry

• Election of 1860

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Who was known as "The Great Compromiser"?

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• Harriet Tubman