Compromises & Laws
This agreement kept balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri and Maine together.
A. Compromise of 1850
B. Kansas–Nebraska Act
C. Missouri Compromise
D. Fugitive Slave Act
C. Missouri Compromise
What does Popular Soverignty
A. courts control elections
B. citizens vote to decide an issue
C. the president decides laws
D. Congress controls slavery
B. citizens vote to decide an issue
The Underground Railroad was —
A. a southern railroad company
B. a secret train system
C. a network helping enslaved people escape
D. a government program
C. a network helping enslaved people escape
Abraham Lincoln was a member of the —
A. Federalist Party
B. Democratic Party
C. Republican Party
D. Whig Party
C. Republican Party
The North’s economy depended mostly on —
A. mining
B. ranching
C. factories and industry
D. plantations
C. factories and industry
California entered the Union as a free state under the
A. Missouri Compromise
B. Compromise of 1850
C. Kansas–Nebraska Act
D. Dred Scott Decision
B. Compromise of 1850
Sectionalism means —
A. equal voting rights
B. unity across states
C. loyalty to one region over the nation
D. ending political parties
C. loyalty to one region over the nation
Guides on the Underground Railroad were called —
A. captains
B. engineers
C. senators
D. conductors
D. conductors
Lincoln’s main position on slavery was to —
A. ignore slavery
B. stop its expansion into territories
C. expand slavery everywhere
D. end slavery immediately everywhere
B. stop its expansion into territories
The Southern economy depended mostly on —
A. shipping
B. banking
C. factories
D. agriculture and slavery
D. agriculture and slavery
This law required citizens to help return escaped enslaved people.
A. Kansas–Nebraska Act
B. Missouri Compromise
C. Fugitive Slave Act
D. Emancipation Proclamation
C. Fugitive Slave Act
Abolitionists wanted slavery to —
A. remain unchanged
B. expand west
C. move overseas
D. end completely
D. end completely
Harriet Tubman was known for —
A. serving as president
B. writing laws
C. leading enslaved people to freedom
D. owning plantations
C. leading enslaved people to freedom
Lincoln won the election partly because —
A. only one candidate ran
B. the South supported him
C. slavery was already ended
D. Democrats were divided
D. Democrats were divided
Conflicts over slavery in new territories increased —
A. foreign wars
B. trade agreements
C. sectional tensions
D. immigration
C. sectional tensions
The Kansas–Nebraska Act allowed settlers to decide slavery using —
A. industrialization
B. abolition
C. secession
D. popular sovereignty
D. popular sovereignty
To secede means to —
A. leave the Union
B. compromise
C. vote in an election
D. pass a law
A. leave the Union
This book helped convince many Northerners slavery was wrong.
A. The Federalist Papers
B. Common Sense
C. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
D. The Jungle
C. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
After Lincoln’s election, Southern states began to —
A. industrialize
B. celebrate
C. compromise
D. secede
D. secede
These conflicts eventually led to the —
A. Mexican War
B. Spanish-American War
C. War of 1812
D. Civil War
D. Civil War
Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers became known as —
A. Border Wars
B. Bleeding Kansas
C. Western Crisis
D. Civil Conflict
B. Bleeding Kansas
The biggest issue dividing North and South was —
A. immigration
B. trade
C. slavery
D. railroads
C. slavery
Abolitionists used speeches and writing mainly to —
A. support plantations
B. defend slavery
C. expand territories
D. persuade people slavery was immoral
D. persuade people slavery was immoral
The Election of 1860 showed the country was —
A. peaceful
B. united
C. deeply divided
D. economically strong
C. deeply divided
Why did compromises keep failing before the Civil War?
A. Americans agreed too much
B. The economy collapsed
C. Slavery stopped mattering
D. North and South had opposing views on slavery
D. North and South had opposing views on slavery