Unit 8/9 Test Review

Which statement best completes this cause-effect diagram? Lincoln wins the 1860 Presidential Election.

• Ulysses S. Grant becomes General of the Union Army

• South Carolina secedes from the Union

• The Thirteenth Amendment is passed by Congress

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act results in bloodshed.

Many Northerners believed the Fugitive Slave law was unfair and began to support the _________.

• abolitionist movement.

• Confederacy.

• Union.

• status quo.

Complete the sentences by selecting the correct answer. Jefferson Davis is significant to American history because he -

• worked to get California admitted to the Union as a free state

• made the Supreme Court ruling on the Dred Scott v. Sandford case

• served as the president of the Confederate States of America

• served as a congressman from Massachusetts

In this excerpt the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans -

• were no longer legal property of their former masters

• legally had the right to suffrage in federal elections

• did not have legal rights or protections in federal courts

• had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

In which region of the United States did each economy develop?

• Mining for gold

• North

• Fertile soil for cash crops

• West

• Natural waterways powered machines in factories

• South

One result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was -

• . Americans were united over the democratic process

• . slavery was outlawed across the United States

• Americans fought against each other over the issue of slavery

• . African Americans were ruled to be property

Which effect best completes this diagram?

• . Slavery is abolished

• Abraham Lincoln is elected president

• The Confederacy is formed

• . The Civil War begins

According to this political cartoon, what was one of the major reasons for the Civil War?

• Slavery

• Tariffs

• Industrialization

• The Compromise of 1850

How did the growth of slavery in the mid-1800s lead to the Civil War? Select TWO correct answers.

• . Abolitionists traveled to the South and burned many cotton plantations to free slaves.

• . The Republican Party was created to challenge the issue of allowing slavery in western territories.

• . Southerners argued that the federal government could not interfere with the South’s right to keep slaves.

• . The Democratic Party prevented Abraham Lincoln from taking the presidency and expanding slavery.

This headline would have been published after the -

• Thirteenth Amendment was ratified

• Election of 1860

• Dred Scott v. Sandford court case

• Compromise of 1850