Causes & Crises: Civil War Quiz

What doctrine did the Kansas–Nebraska Act apply to the new territories?

• Judicial review

• Popular sovereignty

• Federal oversight

• States’ rights

In which year was the Missouri Compromise enacted?

(a)  

One provision of the Compromise of 1850 admitted which state as a free state?

(a)  

• Texas

• California
• Kansas

• Oregon

• Maine
• Missouri

What legal decision did the Dred Scott decision make about enslaved people and citizenship?

By the mid-1850s, which new party became the primary anti‑slavery‑expansion party in the North?

Explain how the Kansas–Nebraska Act directly overturned the Missouri Compromise restriction.

Name the two states whose admissions were paired in the Missouri Compromise to maintain Senate balance.

Name the federal law strengthened by the Compromise of 1850 that required the return of escaped enslaved people.

Explain one legal consequence the Dred Scott ruling had for slavery in U.S. territories.

Name one major Southern political alignment that defended slavery and states’ rights during this period.