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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
compromise
D
abolition
2) Where did the first battle of the Civil War occur?
A
Fort Sumter
B
Bunker Hill
C
Frederickburg
D
Gettysburg
3) Law requiring all citizens to help catch and return escaped slave
A
Treaty of Ghent
B
Fugitive Slave Act
C
Sugar Act
D
Bleeding Kansas
4) What line marked the Northern border of slavery in the Missouri Compromise?
A
the Appalachian mountains
B
36 30'
C
equator
D
Mason-Dixon line
5) Who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom?
A
Jefferson Davis
B
Dred Scott
C
Frederick Douglass
D
Harriet Tubman
6) Who became President of the Confederate States of America?
A
Frederick Douglass
B
Stephen A. Douglas
C
Dred Scott
D
Jefferson Davis
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
Underground Railroad conductors
C
abolitionists
D
Free Soilers
9) The Kansas-Nebraska Act cancelled the
A
Treaty of Paris
B
Louisiana Purchase
C
Missouri Compromise
D
Fugitive Slave Act
10) The Whigs and the Free Soilers joined to create this new party.
A
Know-Nothing
B
Republican
C
Democrat
D
Socialist
11) The Supreme Court decision against Dred Scott declared which document to be unconstitutional?
A
Pinckney Treaty
B
Fugitive Slave Act
C
Adams-Onis Treaty
D
Missouri Compromise
12) Why did John Brown try to raid the Harper's Ferry arsenal?
A
to steal ships to transport slaves away from America
B
to get weapons to start a slave uprising
C
to capture slave owners
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
Alabama
B
South Carolina
C
Georgia
D
Texas
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
Confederate soldiers
B
Union soldiers
C
runaway slaves
D
angry slave owners
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