Civil War TEST

Question 1

What did the Wilmot Proviso Address?

Answer 1

Slavery would not expand in the new territories following the Mexican-American War.

Question 2

Under the Declaration of Independence what are alienable rights?

Answer 2

Rights that cannot be taken away.

Question 3

Why is the Dred Scott decision prove to be a victory for the Southern?

Answer 3

Ruled against Scott and cited the property right of individuals.

Question 4

The Republican Party was created when…

Answer 4

people opposed expansion of slavery and were tired of chaos.

Question 5

Which Presidential candidate of 1860 opposed the expansion of slavery?

Answer 5

Abraham Lincoln

Question 6

What effect did the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 have on the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 6

Repealed it.

Question 7

Under the Preamble and Declaration of Independenve where do Just Powers originate from?

Answer 7

The People

Question 8

What lead to immediate calls for California to enter the Union as a state?

Answer 8

Gold Rush of 1849 AND Huge surge in economic prosperity.

Question 9

What was NOT one of the effects of John Browns Raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

Answer 9

Widespread support for Brown in the South.

Question 10

What lead to the creation of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

Answer 10

Growing issue of Slavery. Need for transcontinental railroad, and growing commercial interests.

All of the Above

Question 11

The Fugitive SLave Act was part of which Compromise in U.S. History before the Civil War?

Answer 11

Missouri Compromise

Question 12

The Fugitive Slave Act was a vicotry for…?

Answer 12

Southern States

Question 13

Which of the polictical parties failed to achieve an electoral vote in the election?

Answer 13

Whig Party

Question 14

Why was the Free-Soil party created following thr 1848 presidential election?

Answer 14

Exclusion of slavery in the new western territories following the Mexican-American War.

Question 15

What was the South’s reaction to 1860 presidential election of Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 15

South Carolina Seceded.

Question 16

True or False

Under the Fugitive SLave Act U.S. citizens would be required to help locate run-away slaves and return them to the South?

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False

The Mexico territories added following the Mexican-American War set the stage for the 1850s for the violatile issue of slavery?

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False

The novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a non-fictional story?

Answer 18

False

Question 19

True or False

The Republican party was an aboltionist party?

Answer 19

False

Question 20

True or False

Following the Kansas-Nebraska Act during the late 1850s there were two illegal territory governments operating the Kansas territory?

Answer 20

True

Question 21

True or False

Folllowing the Kansas-Nebraska there were no demonstations against the Fugitive Slave Act?

Answer 21

False

Question 22

True or False

California entered the Union as a free-state?

Answer 22

True

Question 23

True or False

The Dred Scott case determined that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

True or False

Following the ruling of the Dred Scott case presumably a territorial government could restrict the expansion of slavery?

Answer 24

False

Question 25

# True or False In the Lincoln-Douglas debates the main issue debated was the spread of slavery?

Answer 25

True

Question 26

What is popular soverignty?

Answer 26

Territores get to vote if they allow slavery or not.

Question 27

What was the Missouri Compromise of 1850?

Answer 27

Consisted of the fugitive slave act.