Origins of The Civil War: Part 2

What is the term for a group of men called out by a sheriff or marshal to aid in enforcing the law?

• posse

• brigade

• squad

• troop

What act required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught anywhere in the United States?

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Mark Twain

• Jane Austen

• Charles Dickens

What was the American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats?

• Whig Party

• Federalist Party

• Libertarian Party

• Green Party

What is the term for the strip of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico for which the United States paid Mexico $10 million in 1853?

• Gadsen Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

• Alaska Purchase

• Oregon Treaty

What was completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, linking the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Panama Canal

• Erie Canal

• Hoover Dam

What act in 1854 created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

What term describes the period from the mid-1830s to the mid-1850s when the Democrats and Whigs were the two main parties?

• second-party system

• first-party system

• third-party system

• multi-party system

The Know-Nothing Party (American Party) is best described as:

• A political party that supported immigration

• A political party that opposed immigration

• A political party that focused on environmental issues

• A political party that advocated for women's rights

What is Nativism?

• A policy of favoring native inhabitants over immigrants

• A belief in the superiority of one's own culture

• A movement to promote global citizenship

• A theory that language is learned through social interaction