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Chapter 15 History Review
Test Description: Secession and War
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Allowing the people to decide by voting
A
popular sovereignty
B
federalism
C
abolition
D
compromise
2) Where did the first battle of the Civil War occur?
A
Bunker Hill
B
Gettysburg
C
Frederickburg
D
Fort Sumter
3) Law requiring all citizens to help catch and return escaped slave
A
Fugitive Slave Act
B
Treaty of Ghent
C
Bleeding Kansas
D
Sugar Act
4) What line marked the Northern border of slavery in the Missouri Compromise?
A
Mason-Dixon line
B
the Appalachian mountains
C
36 30'
D
equator
5) Who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom?
A
Frederick Douglass
B
Harriet Tubman
C
Dred Scott
D
Jefferson Davis
6) Who became President of the Confederate States of America?
A
Stephen A. Douglas
B
Jefferson Davis
C
Dred Scott
D
Frederick Douglass
7) Which violent abolitionist was hanged for his raid on an arsenal?
A
John Brown
B
Robert E. Lee
C
Harriet Tubman
D
Frederick Douglass
8) What name was given to the armed proslavery Missourians who went to Kansas to vote?
A
border ruffians
B
abolitionists
C
Underground Railroad conductors
D
Free Soilers
9) The Kansas-Nebraska Act cancelled the
A
Fugitive Slave Act
B
Missouri Compromise
C
Louisiana Purchase
D
Treaty of Paris
10) The Whigs and the Free Soilers joined to create this new party.
A
Democrat
B
Republican
C
Know-Nothing
D
Socialist
11) The Supreme Court decision against Dred Scott declared which document to be unconstitutional?
A
Adams-Onis Treaty
B
Fugitive Slave Act
C
Pinckney Treaty
D
Missouri Compromise
12) Why did John Brown try to raid the Harper's Ferry arsenal?
A
to capture slave owners
B
to steal ships to transport slaves away from America
C
to get weapons to start a slave uprising
D
to get guns so that he could rob banks for money to buy people out of slavery
13) Which Southern state seceded first?
A
Texas
B
Georgia
C
Alabama
D
South Carolina
14) True or False: Lincoln ran for office with the promise to free all slaves.
A
false
B
true
15) Who fired the first shots at Fort Sumter?
A
runaway slaves
B
Union soldiers
C
Confederate soldiers
D
angry slave owners
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