Causes of the Civil War

During the period 1820–1860, the major concerns in the United States dealt with issues related to

• determining the future of slavery

• imposing immigration quotas

• developing big business

Sectional rivalries during the period from 1820 to 1860 centered mainly around the issues of

• state rights

• extension of slavery

• tarrifs

• all of these were issues

Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860?

• the election of President Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

• the raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, which was led by the militant abolitionist John Brown

• the Missouri Compromise, which kept an even balance between the number of free and slave states

Which is a primary source of information about the nature of slavery in the United States?

• a television program showing life on a Southern plantation

• a history of slavery written by a 20th-century historian

• the autobiography of Frederick Douglass

Which problem did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act attempt to solve?

• placement of protective tariffs on foreign imports

• equitable distribution of frontier lands to the owners of small farms

• extension of slavery into the western territories

True of False

The Election of 1860 and increase in sectionalism caused southern states to seccesed from the Union?

• True

• False

Which three individuals would be considered abolitionist?

• Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman

• Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis

• John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford

True or False

Susan B. Anthony fought for women's right to vote (suffrage)

• true

• false

Which of the following caused John Brown's raids?

• the forced relocation of Native American tribes into Kansas

• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the decision in the Dred Scott case

In the 1840s and 1850s, immigration to the United States was characterized by

• large numbers of immigrants from Latin America

• significant job opportunities for immigrants in southern states

• a large influx of Irish and German immigrants