Final Exam Review 2024

This law said Americans could ^_NOT help runaway slaves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book to show the cruelties of slavery. What was it called?

• Uncle Bob's Stories
• Uncle Tom's Hotel
• Uncle Joe's Best Recipes
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• That slavery diminished the national character.
• That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.
• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens
• That slavery should be abolished by executive order

The Election of 1860 was won by the...

• Republican Party
• Northern Democratic Party
• Southern Democratic Party
• Constitutional Union Party

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between Midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

• The Election of Lincoln in 1860
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Harper's Ferry
• Bleeding Kansas

Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

Which of the following completes the diagram?

• President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Thirteenth Amendment

Label the chart to which side had the advantage in the Civil War. North or South