Election of 1860 Video

True or False: According to John Green, slavery is the root cause of the Civil War

• True

• False

Why was it so important for Kansas and Nebraska to become states (at least to Stephen Douglass and others who thought like him)

• so that a transcontinental railroad could be built

• so that America could gain control of oil present in the area

• because gold was discovered in those territories

• to keep the slave state/free state balance

What did the Missouri Compromise do?

• banned slavery north of the 36'30 line

• • banned slavery south of the 36'30 line

• passed a very harsh Fugitive Slave Law

• banned slavery in all states

In what state was there so much violence that some believe that Civil War started there in 1857?

• Missouri

• Kansas

• South Carolina

• Nebraska

The Republican Party was originally made up of all of the following groups EXCEPT...

• Know-Nothings

• Former Free-Soilers

• Northern anti-slavery Whigs

• Plantation Owners

Republicans and abolitionists feared that the national government was becoming more pro-slavery.

• True

• False

The Dred Scott decision basically made slavery legal everywhere in the United States.

• True

• False

White abolitionist John Brown was successful in robbing the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia and leading a slave revolt.

• True

• False

How many candidates were running for President in 1860?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Seven southern slave states had seceded by the time Lincoln was sworn in as president in 1861.

• True

• False