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USI.9b (States Rights) #1
Test Description: Reviews USI.9b - issue of states rights.
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1) Most Southerners believed that states had freely created and joined the Union and could freely leave it. This belief caused what war in the United States?
A
War of 1812
B
Mexican-American War
C
Civil War
D
Revolutionary War
2) Which issue contributed most to sectional differences between the North and the South prior to the Civil War?
A
Election of Abraham Lincoln
B
Abolition of slavery
C
Attack on Fort Sumter
D
Expansion of western terrority
3) What event finally caused the South to secede from the Union, starting the Civil War?
A
Firing on Fort Sumter
B
Lincoln’s election
C
Compromise of 1850
D
Compromise of 1860
4) What happened in the United States in 1820?
A
Settlers decided if the two new territories would be free or slave territories.
B
Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state.
C
All citizens were required to return runaway slaves or face jail time and possible fines.
D
The United States gained control of large amounts of land west of the Mississippi River.
5) The ____ stated that runaway enslaved people caught in the Northern states had to be returned to their owners.
A
Missouri Compromise
B
Kansas-Nebraska Act
C
Fugitive Slave Act
D
Stamp Act
6) The Missouri Compromise tried to satisfy people with different beliefs about slavery by —
A
ending the slave trade throughout the country
B
spreading slavery to plantations growing cotton and tobacco
C
prohibiting slavery in the Kansas Territory
D
admitting one free state and one slave state to the Union
7) What was different about the the Compromise of 1850 from previous ones?
A
It was put into law by a unanimous vote.
B
It not only effected new territories or states, but also said the North had to return runaway enslaved people.
C
It involved paying a state to allow the people to vote on slavery.
D
It made both sides happy because they got what they wanted.
8) Why did the issue of abolishing slavery create a division between the northern and southern states?
A
The North felt slavery was morally wrong and the South felt it would destroy their economy.
B
Northerners felt they had the power to declare any national law illegal and the South did not.
C
Southerners wanted to sell their cotton and transition into a manufacturing region which would create competition for the No
D
Southerners felt it would boost their economies and the North did not want enslaved people working in their factories.
9) What is true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A
Popular sovereignty would decide the issue of slavery.
B
Local governments would decide the issue of slavery.
C
Kansas and Nebraska would be required to enter the Union as slave states.
D
Kansas and Nebraska would be required to enter the Union as free states.
10) The people had a choice to be a free state or a state that supported slavery. This was known as —
A
the Compromise of 1850
B
the Missouri Compromise of 1820
C
the Maine Compromise
D
popular sovereignty
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