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USI.9b Civil War: Pre-War Compromises
Test Description: Civil War: Pre-War Compromises
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Tensions over the issue of slavery increased as ___.
A
the US lost the Mexican-American War
B
Southerners began promoting slavery in the North
C
new territories opened up in the West
D
the mechanical reaper caused an increased need for slavery on grain farms
2) Once a territory had 60,000 people, it could apply to become a state. This was difficult because ___.
A
adding new states would upset the balance of power in Congress
B
all of Congress must vote in favor of adding a state before it would be allowed to join the Union
C
most territories would never get 60,000 people to live there
D
most people did not want the US to expand to the West
3) The South feared the North would take control of Congress and began proclaiming ____ as a way to protect their way of life.
A
slavery emancipation
B
Southern secession
C
national supremacy
D
states' rights
4) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine to join as a free state?
A
Dred Scott Decision
B
Compromise of 1850
C
Missouri Compromise
D
Kansas-Nebraska Act
5) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision created an imaginary line below Missouri's Southern border and said no territory above this line could allow slavery?
A
Kansas-Nebraska Act
B
Dred Scott Decision
C
Compromise of 1850
D
Missouri Compromise
6) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision allowed California to join the Union as a free state?
A
Missouri Compromise
B
Dred Scott Decision
C
Kansas-Nebraska Act
D
Compromise of 1850
7) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision divided the Mexican Cession into two Southwest territories, and allowed these two territories to vote on the issue of slavery?
A
Compromise of 1850
B
Kansas-Nebraska Act
C
Missouri Compromise
D
Dred Scott Decision
8) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision made stricter fugitive slave laws, requiring the North to return runaway slaves to the South?
A
Kansas-Nebraska Act
B
Compromise of 1850
C
Dred Scott Decision
D
Missouri Compromise
9) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision gave popular sovereignty to the people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories?
A
Kansas-Nebraska Act
B
Compromise of 1850
C
Missouri Compromise
D
Dred Scott Decision
10) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision said slaves were not citizens, but property, and could be taken into any state or territory by their masters?
A
Dred Scott Decision
B
Missouri Compromise
C
Kansas-Nebraska Act
D
Compromise of 1850
11) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision canceled out all pre-war compromises by opening up all of the US and its territories to slavery?
A
Dred Scott Decision
B
Kansas-Nebraska Act
C
Missouri Compromise
D
Compromise of 1850
12) Why did the Southern states start to secede and form the Confederate States of America?
A
Abraham Lincoln was elected president
B
The Supreme Court prevented slavery from spreading to the West
C
A Constitutional amendment banned slavery
D
Tariff prices continued to increase until the South could no longer play
13) ___ believed that the United States was one nation, a union, that could not be separated or divided.
A
Most Southerners
B
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
C
the founding fathers
D
Abraham Lincoln and many Northerners
14) ___ believed that states had freely created and joined the Union and could freely leave it.
A
Abraham Lincoln and many Northerners
B
the founding fathers
C
Most Southerners
D
A majority of all U.S. Citizens
15) What happened after several states seceded from the Union that caused the other Southern states to secede and marked the beginning of the Civil War?
A
Lincoln was elected president
B
the Dred Scott Decision
C
Bleeding Kansas
D
the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter
16) Which of the following statements is true?
A
The South believed Federalism appropriately divides power between State and National Governments
B
The South believed the individual states should have more power and the North believed the national government was supreme
C
The North believed National and State Governments should have equal power
D
The North believed the individual states should have more power and the South believed the national government was supreme
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