Q4 Week 33 Social Studies (The Road to War)

Who were the two men that debated for the Illinois Senate seat in 1858?

• Stephen Sondheim and Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
• Donna Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln became the presidential candidate for what political party?

• Democrat
• Whig
• Jeffersonian Republican
• Republican

Where was Lincoln’s name on the ballot for the presidential election?

• only the southern states
• only the northern states
• only the western states
• all the states

What was located at Harpers Ferry?

• a warehouse of military supplies
• a warehouse of food
• a fort
• a military base

Who led a raid on Harpers Ferry?

• Robert E. Lee and his sons
• Samuel Brown and his sons
• John Brown and his sons
• John Smith and his sons

Why did the raiders want the weapons at Harpers Ferry?

• so the army wouldn’t have them
• to create an army of enslaved men
• to give them to the South
• to create an army of abolitionists

What was the action of leaving the Union of the United States called?

• success
• leaving
• dissolvement
• secession

What did South Carolina claim the northern states had done?

• kept them suppressed
• encouraged enslaved people to leave their homes
• returned fugitive enslaved people
• made laws against shipping

Each state’s secession document listed this as the reason for leaving the Union:

• tariffs
• voter fraud
• Lincoln as president
• slavery

What two state borders formed the Mason-Dixon Line?

• Maryland and Delaware
• Maryland and Virginia
• Pennsylvania and Maryland
• Pennsylvania and Virginia