8th Path to the Civil War Quiz

What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820 primarily designed to do?

• End slavery in all United States territories

• Balance the number of free and slave states entering the Union

• Grant voting rights to enslaved people

• Establish trade agreements between northern and southern states

What term describes the legal principle that allowed settlers in a territory to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery?

• Manifest Destiny

• States' Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federal Supremacy

Which law, passed in 1850, required citizens in free states to assist in the capture and return of escaped enslaved people?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Compromise of 1820

• The Emancipation Proclamation

Who was the author of the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published in 1852, which increased antislavery sentiment in the North?

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

What was the name of the network of secret routes and safe houses used to help enslaved people escape to freedom in the North?

• The Freedom Trail

• The Underground Railroad

• The Liberty Network

• The Abolitionist Path

Which Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no right to sue in court?

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

In what year did South Carolina become the first state to secede from the Union?

• 1858

• 1859

• 1860

• 1861

What was the name of the political party that Abraham Lincoln represented when he was elected president in 1860?

• Democratic Party

• Whig Party

• Republican Party

• Federalist Party

Which act, passed in 1854, effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing new territories to decide the slavery question through popular sovereignty?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Northwest Ordinance

• The Homestead Act

What name was given to the violent conflict between pro-slavery and antislavery settlers in the Kansas territory during the 1850s?

• The Missouri Crisis

• The Border War

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Kansas Rebellion