Economic Activities and Beliefs Leading up to the Civil War

What did the North believe about the federal government and Constitution?

• They should be ignored

• They are supreme throughout the nation

• They should be changed frequently

• They are less important than state laws

What was the South's reliance on slavery for?

• Industrial development

• Production of cash crops

• Military purposes

• Urban development

What was the North's economic focus?

• Agriculture

• Industrial

• Mining

• Technology

Which region was considered to have benefited more from the Compromise of 1850?

• South

• North

• West

• East

What was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It allowed the local residents to decide if they would be slave or free.

• It created one slave state and one free state.

• It allowed Southerners to hunt for escaped slaves in free states.

• It denied African American residents U.S. citizenship.

Which historical event did the Kansas-Nebraska Act directly lead to?

• Bleeding Kansas

• The signing of the Declaration of Independence

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Battle of Gettysburg

Which candidate was associated with the Republican Party?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• John Breckinridge

• John Bell

What did many southerners do in response to the idea of secession?

• They held protests.

• They were against it.

• They moved north.

• They supported it.

The members of the Free Soil party were mostly abolitionists.

• True

• False

What was the opinion of many state politicians in the South regarding secession?

• They supported it.

• They were against it.

• They were undecided.

• They were indifferent.