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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 mechanical reaper caused an increased need for slavery on grain farms
B
the US lost the Mexican-American War
C
new territories opened up in the West
D
Southerners began promoting slavery in the North
2) Once a territory had 60,000 people, it could apply to become a state. This was difficult because ___.
A
most territories would never get 60,000 people to live there
B
all of Congress must vote in favor of adding a state before it would be allowed to join the Union
C
adding new states would upset the balance of power in Congress
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
Southern secession
B
states' rights
C
slavery emancipation
D
national supremacy
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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
C
Compromise of 1850
D
Missouri Compromise
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
Dred Scott Decision
B
Compromise of 1850
C
Kansas-Nebraska Act
D
Missouri Compromise
6) Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision allowed California to join the Union as a free state?
A
Kansas-Nebraska Act
B
Missouri Compromise
C
Dred Scott Decision
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
Missouri Compromise
B
Dred Scott Decision
C
Kansas-Nebraska Act
D
Compromise of 1850
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
Missouri Compromise
B
Kansas-Nebraska Act
C
Compromise of 1850
D
Dred Scott Decision
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
Missouri Compromise
C
Dred Scott Decision
D
Compromise of 1850
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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
B
Dred Scott Decision
C
Missouri Compromise
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
Missouri Compromise
B
Compromise of 1850
C
Dred Scott Decision
D
Kansas-Nebraska Act
12) Why did the Southern states start to secede and form the Confederate States of America?
A
Abraham Lincoln was elected president
B
Tariff prices continued to increase until the South could no longer play
C
The Supreme Court prevented slavery from spreading to the West
D
A Constitutional amendment banned slavery
13) ___ believed that the United States was one nation, a union, that could not be separated or divided.
A
Abraham Lincoln and many Northerners
B
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
C
the founding fathers
D
Most Southerners
14) ___ believed that states had freely created and joined the Union and could freely leave it.
A
Abraham Lincoln and many Northerners
B
Most Southerners
C
A majority of all U.S. Citizens
D
the founding fathers
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 Confederate attack on Fort Sumter
C
Bleeding Kansas
D
the Dred Scott Decision
16) Which of the following statements is true?
A
The North believed National and State Governments should have equal power
B
The North believed the individual states should have more power and the South believed the national government was supreme
C
The South believed Federalism appropriately divides power between State and National Governments
D
The South believed the individual states should have more power and the North believed the national government was supreme
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