USHC 3.1 (Causes of CW)

What did Abraham Lincoln declare, early in his presidency, as his primary goal as President?

• To enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• To preserve the Union

• To end slavery throughout the entire country

• To encourage sectionalism

Which Supreme Court decision created the need for a constitutional amendment that would grant citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Marbury v. Madison

Which situation was the most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency in 1860?

• Kansas and Nebraska joined the Union as free states.

• A constitutional amendment was adopted to end slavery.

• Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.

• Several Southern states seceded from the Union.

Which of these led to Northern suspicion that Southern interests had too much influence on the federal government?

• The election of Abraham Lincoln

• Northern support and sympathy for John Brown

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case

Read the following list: -Nullification Crisis -Kansas-Nebraska Act -Dred Scott Decision -Election of Lincoln(1860) Which category would best include all of these events?

• Foreign policy initiatives

• Government polices toward Native Americans

• Consequences of Manifest Destiny

• Causes of sectional conflict

Which of the following arguments did President Abraham Lincoln use against the secession of the southern states?

• Slavery was not profitable.

• The government was a union of people and not of states.

• The Southern states did not permit their people to vote on secession.

• As the Commander-in-Chief, he had the duty to defend the United States against foreign invasion.

Use the quotes below to answer the question. "The slaveholding states will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the federal government will become their enemy...." ----SC legislature, Declaration of Causes of Secession, 1860 "The Union is older than any of these states, and, in fact, it created them as states." --Abraham Lincoln These quotes represent two sides in which important conflict in American history?

• The conflict over states' rights and federal authority.

• The conflict over what level of representation small states should have in the federal legislature.

• The conflict over an amendment to the Constitution that would allow slavery in the territories.

• The conflict over Indian removal.

In the first half of the 1800s, how was the political power of the South threatened?

• As social ties developed between the North and the West, African Americans in the South began to vote in larger numbers.

• As the population of the North increased, northern states had more representation in the House of Representatives.

• The North and West regions had a stronger economic relationship because of internal improvements.

• Growing opposition to slavery in the North increased the importance of Southern representation in the Senate.

• After gaining suffrage, women tended to vote against slavery, which hurt the Southern economy.

How were Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Grimke Sisters all similar?

• They all supported the abolitionist movement.

• They all supported the passage of Black Codes.

• They all supported the nullification theory of States' Rights.

• They all supported the plantation system in the South.

What effect did Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the emergence of the Republican Party, and John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry have on the South?

• White Southerners increasingly distrusted the intentions of Northerners.

• Southerners gained seats in the United States Congress.

• Slavery was no longer an issue as new states were added to the Union.

• There was a dramatic rise in Southern abolitionism.