Quiz Review - Major Causes of the Civil War (I)

What does the image portray?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Mexican Cession

Deal reached to settle the issue of the expansion of slavery into the Louisiana Territory?

• Missouri Compromise

• Mexican Cession

• Texas War of Independence

• Manifest Destiny

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

Who came up with the idea of the Missouri Compromise?  

• James Monroe
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Clay

What line would was used to determine whether a state would be free or slave?

• 36 30 line

• 45 70 line

• mason-Dixon line

• Proclamation line

What was the primary reason for the Missouri Compromise?

• To settle the question of slavery expansion into the Louisiana Purchase Territory

• To prevent the expansion of slavery into California

• To allow setters the right to settle in California

• To allow Missouri to become a free states instead of a slave state.

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

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

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

Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?

• A violent slave uprising led by Joseph Cinque

• Violence in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers prior to the Civil War

• The turning point of the Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee's army was routed from Kansas

• The devastation caused by a tornado in Kansas in 1854, which killed 55 people

The WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Fugitive Criminal Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• California-Maine Act