Events Leading to Civil War POP Quiz

What was the main purpose of the Compromise of 1820, also known as the Missouri Compromise?

• To establish a precedent for using congressional legislation to address the issue of slavery expansion

• To declare war between the North and South

• To abolish slavery in the United States

• To introduce a new currency system in the United States

What did the Compromise of 1850 include that was controversial and heightened sectional tensions?

• A declaration of peace between the North and South

• The introduction of a new tax system

• A Fugitive Slave Act, which required the return of escaped slaves

• The abolition of slavery in California

How did Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, influence the North and the South?

• It led to a decrease in tensions between the North and South

• It encouraged the South to adopt more lenient laws on slavery

• It influenced many Northerners to become more opposed to slavery and Southerners to claim it as a work of fiction

• It promoted the idea of slavery as a beneficial institution

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allow for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska?

• To secede from the Union

• To decide the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty

• To join the Confederacy

• To establish their own countries

What was the result of the Dred Scott Decision on the Missouri Compromise?

• Ruled that Black People have rights

• Ruled that Black People were not citizens

• It supported the Missouri Compromise

• It overturned the Missouri Compromise

What did the Dred Scott Decision effectively do to the territories in terms of slavery?

• It made all territories free

• It allowed only certain territories to have slaves

• It opened up all territories to slavery

• It prohibited slavery in all territories

What was the outcome of John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry?

• It was ignored and had no significant impact

• It led to an immediate end to slavery

• It heightened fears of slave insurrection and solidified Northern support for abolition

• It caused the South to free their slaves

What was the significance of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in 1858?

• They led to the secession of South Carolina

• They helped Abraham Lincoln gain national attention and set the stage for his presidential campaign

• They resulted in the immediate abolition of slavery

• They were a series of debates focused on the economic differences between the North and South

What was the outcome of the Election of 1860?

• Abraham Lincoln won and no Southern states seceded

• Abraham Lincoln lost but became a national figure

• Abraham Lincoln won without carrying a single Southern state, leading to the secession of several Southern states

• Stephen Douglas won and became president

(a)   was the first to secede from the Union after the Election of 1860.

• Virginia
• Georgia
• South Carolina
• Mississippi