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MCAP Review #5

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 
a)
Fugitive Slave Act 
b)
Bleeding Kansas
c)
Missouri Compromise 
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act 
2.

What is the definition of popular sovereignty

a)

citizens of a territory would vote on whether or not slavery would be permitted

b)

an idea accepted by many people

c)

voting to send a representative to Congress

d)

voting to elect a President

3.
This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 
a)
Missouri Compromise 
b)
Summer if 1856
c)
Bleeding Kansas
d)
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
4.

Who led the anti-slavery fighters in Bleeding Kansas?

a)
Jim Brown
b)
John Brown
c)
Joe Brown
d)
Phil Brown
5.

Which of the following is not true about John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?

a)

He wanted to arm slaves to revolt against their masters

b)

He and his followers attacked a Federal arsenal

c)

He was killed in the raid from friendly fire by one of his sons

d)

He was hanged for committing treason

6.

What was ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

a)

the court ruled that Dred Scott was a free man

b)

the court ruled that slavery was illegal in southern states

c)

the court ruled that slavery was illegal in the United States

d)

the court ruled that African Americans-enslaved or free-were not citizens of the United States

7.

What did Dred Scott argue was the reason for his freedom?

a)

He had lived in free territory.

b)

His natural rights protected his freedom.

c)

He had worked enough to earn his freedom

d)

His owner gave permission for freedom.

8.

The decision made in Dred Scott v. Sanford greatly influenced the election of ______________ becoming President in 1860.

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

James Polk

d)

Henry Clay

9.

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

a)

end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

b)

encourage manufacturing in the west

c)

increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

d)

settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

10.

During the Election of 1860...

a)

The Republican party was split over slavery.

b)

Whigs won easily

c)

The Democratic party was split over slavery

d)

Abraham Lincoln won over 80% of the popular vote

11.

How are the North and the South different?

a)

The North has many factories

b)

The South economy is based on cotton

c)

The North had big cities and the South had small towns

d)

All are correct

12.

Why were Southerners upset that Lincoln won the Presidency?

a)

Southerners believed their way of life was in danger.

b)

Lincoln was against slavery

c)

both

13.

What was the South's response to the results of the Election of 1860?

a)

They waited until the next political cycle to do anything

b)

Most seceded from the Union, and launched the Confederate States of America

c)

They were not happy, but they stuck it out

d)

They engaged in serious debates with Republican and Northern Democratic leaders

14.

Had slaves

a)

North

b)

South

15.

Had factories with many workers

a)

North

b)

South

16.

Their political party was the Republicans who were against slavery

a)

North

b)

South

17.

Argued for State's Rights

a)

North

b)

South

18.

Economy was based off of agriculture and slave labor

a)

North

b)

South

19.

Had more people to fight in the war

a)

North

b)

South

20.

Less railroads, less people to fight in the war, better leadership

a)

North

b)

South

21.

King Cotton Diplomacy

a)

North

b)

South

22.

Anaconda Plan; Naval Blockade

a)

North

b)

South

23.

More railroads, more supplies, poor leadership

a)

North

b)

South

24.

Used in times of major wars. Randomly selects men from the country to go to war in a lottery style system.

a)

Secede / Seccession

b)

Blockade

c)

Draft / Conscription

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

25.

Which of the following did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

a)

Freed all slaves in the Confederate states that were not currently under Union control.

b)

Laid the groundwork for a future constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery.

c)

Allowed for African American men to fight in the Union army.

d)

All of the above

26.

Why did President Lincoln wait to issue the proclamation until after the northern victory at Antietam?

a)

It was a complicated document and it took him a long time to write.

b)

He was waiting for the states to ratify it.

c)

He was waiting on the Supreme Court to say it was okay.

d)

He wanted strong support for the proclamation from the people and felt that the timing was right after this major victory in the Civil War.

27.

What is the name of the Supreme Court Case is which Abraham Lincoln tried to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus?

a)

Mculloch v. Maryland

b)

Ex parte Merryman

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Marbury v. MAdison

28.

These riots occurred in cities throughout

the South and involved hungry women and men invading and looting

various shops and stores.

a)

Draft Riot

b)

Bread Riot

c)

Inflation

d)

Increase in Industry

29.

__________ is the rate at which the value of a currency

is falling and, consequently, the general level of prices

for goods and services is rising.

a)

Draft Riot

b)

Bread Riot

c)

Inflation

d)

Increase in Industry

30.

During and after the Civil War the North’s factory

system grew which lead to more goods and more money

for the nation.

a)

Draft Riot

b)

Bread Riot

c)

Inflation

d)

Increase in Industry

31.

Manhattan________ were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan,

widely regarded as the culmination of white working-class

discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to

draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

a)

Draft Riots

b)

Bread Riot

c)

Inflation

d)

Increase in Industry

32.

An organization founded to help newly freed African Americans gain access to education and health care

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

Freedman's Bureau

d)

13th Amendment

33.

*Declared slaves to be free from any former servitude

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

Freedman's Bureau

d)

13th Amendment

34.

Ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

Freedman's Bureau

d)

13th Amendment

35.

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

Freedman's Bureau

d)

13th Amendment

36.

Actions taken by Southern activists to keep blacks from voting and experiencing citizenship included...

a)

Black Codes

b)

Klu Klux Klan

c)

Sharecropping

d)

All of them

37.

In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruling said that _________ but __________ was Constitutional, essentially legalizing segregation.

a)

separate; equal

b)

fair; balanced

c)

equal; different

d)

separate; different