History Games: Toward Civil War

Which of these was the result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• anger in the North

• compromise on the slavery question

• recognition of states’ rights

• resolution of the slavery question

Which position did Franklin Pierce begin holding in 1853?

• Editor of The Liberator

• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

• President of the United States

• U.S. Senator

James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state?

• Maine

• Missouri

• North Carolina

• Texas

What does abstain mean?

• to create a network

• to leave the Union

• to not vote

• to take territory

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

• Preston Brooks

• John Brown

• Andrew P. Butler

• Charles Sumner

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

• admission of Illinois to the Union

• economic issues

• slavery

• war with Mexico

Who believed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory?

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Zachary Taylor

• Daniel Webster

Which “property of this kind” is being referred to in Taney’s decision?

• an Act of Congress

• Dred Scott and his family

• the Missouri Compromise

• United States territories

Why were Southern state governments mostly pleased by the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision?

• because the court ruled that Dred Scott could own slaves

• because the court ruled that Dred Scott must be freed

• because the court ruled that a restriction on slavery was unconstitutional

• because the court ruled that human beings were not property

Which describes the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• It was a popular decision throughout the nation.

• It received almost no support in the South.

• It outraged opponents of slavery.

• It was overturned by presidential veto.