Causes Of The Civil War 1 Question Preview (ID: 31274)


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Who believed slavery could only be ended with violence?
a) William Lloyd Garrison
b) Frederick Douglas
c) John Brown
d) John C. Calhoun

What happened when Lincoln was elected president?
a) 11 Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America
b) 50 states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America
c) Southern states fired on the Northern fort of Bull Run
d) Southern states freed the slaves

In the Dred Scott case, what did the Supreme Court rule?
a) Dred Scott was a free man
b) Dred Scott needed to get a better lawyer
c) blacks should have equal rights of citizenship
d) blacks have no rights to citizenship

Who was the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad?
a) Harriet Tubman
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) John C. Calhoun
d) Frederick Douglas

What was the Underground Railroad?
a) a secret escape route for slaves to travel back to the South to their plantations
b) a secret escape route for runaway slaves to travel north to freedom
c) a train run by abolitionists to help slaves escape
d) the first underground train system to help slaves escape

Why did Kansas get the nickname Bleeding Kansas?
a) The Kansas River became the color red
b) The governor of Kansas was killed
c) Abolitionists and pro-slavery people started fighting over votes
d) Farmers were getting hurt on big machinery

What law said citizens of new states should decide themselves if they want to be slave or free states
a) Kansas Nebraska Act
b) Compromise of 1850
c) Missouri Comprmise
d) Fugitive Slave Act

What said any slaves that escaped to the north can be caught and returned to their plantation owners
a) Kansas Nebraska Act
b) Retrun Runaway Slave Act
c) Fugitive Slave Act
d) Missouri Compromise

What compromise consisted of California becoming a free state, Utah and New Mexico could decide for themselves, Fugitive Slave Act
a) Compromise of 1850
b) Missouri Compromise
c) Fair State Compromise
d) Kansas Nebraska Act

Which compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state
a) Compromise of 1850
b) Missouri Compromise
c) Fair State Compromise
d) Kansas Nebraska Act

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