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What describes the Missouri Compromise?
a) Missouri came in as slave state, and Kansas came in as free state
b) Missouri would be a slave state along with Maine.
c) Missouri came in as slave state, and Maine came in as free state
d) Missouri would be a free state along with Maine.

What compromise promised that California would be declared a free state and the  other Southwest territories could choose for themselves?
a) Compromise of 1820
b) Maine Compromise
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Compromise of 1850

Which fort did Confederate forces fire upon after South Carolina seceded from the  Union?
a) Fort Nebraska
b) Fort South Carolina
c) Fort Charleston
d) Fort Sumter

Which of the following events occurred first?
a) Lincoln was elected President.
b) The Confederacy was formed.
c) Fort Sumter was attacked.
d) The Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the slavery issue would be settled by —
a) federal courts
b) state legislatures
c) constitutional amendment
d) popular sovereignty

(1) Abraham Lincoln is elected President. (2) -----. (3) Firing on Fort Sumter. What goes with #2?
a) The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
b) Some southern states seceded from the Union
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) The First Battle of Manassas

Which compromise declared Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state?
a) Maine Compromise
b) Kansas-Nebraska Act
c) Emancipation Proclamation
d) Missouri Compromise

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) Civil War
b) Revolutionary War
c) War of 1812
d) Mexican-American War

Where did the Civil War begin?
a) North Carolina
b) South Carolina
c) Virginia
d) Georgia

The ____________ stated that runaway enslaved people caught in the Northern states had to  be returned to their owners.
a) Fugitive Slave Act
b) Kansas-Nebraska Act
c) Missouri Compromise
d) Stamp Act

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