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Civil War: Pre-War Compromises.
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Tensions over the issue of slavery increased as ___.
a) new territories opened up in the West
b) Southerners began promoting slavery in the North
c) the US lost the Mexican-American War
d) the mechanical reaper caused an increased need for slavery on grain farms
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) adding new states would upset the balance of power in Congress
c) most people did not want the US to expand to the West
d) all of Congress must vote in favor of adding a state before it would be allowed to join the Union
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) national supremacy
c) states' rights
d) slavery emancipation
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) Compromise of 1850
b) Dred Scott Decision
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Missouri Compromise
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) Compromise of 1850
b) Dred Scott Decision
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Missouri Compromise
Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision allowed California to join the Union as a free state?
a) Compromise of 1850
b) Dred Scott Decision
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Missouri Compromise
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) Dred Scott Decision
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Missouri Compromise
Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision made stricter fugitive slave laws, requiring the North to return runaway slaves to the South?
a) Compromise of 1850
b) Dred Scott Decision
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Missouri Compromise
Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision gave popular sovereignty to the people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories?
a) Compromise of 1850
b) Dred Scott Decision
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Missouri Compromise
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) Compromise of 1850
b) Dred Scott Decision
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Missouri Compromise
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) Compromise of 1850
b) Dred Scott Decision
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Missouri Compromise
Why did the Southern states start to secede and form the Confederate States of America?
a) A Constitutional amendment banned slavery
b) Abraham Lincoln was elected president
c) The Supreme Court prevented slavery from spreading to the West
d) Tariff prices continued to increase until the South could no longer play
___ believed that the United States was one nation, a union, that could not be separated or divided.
a) the founding fathers
b) Abraham Lincoln and many Northerners
c) Most Southerners
d) Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
___ believed that states had freely created and joined the Union and could freely leave it.
a) A majority of all U.S. Citizens
b) Abraham Lincoln and many Northerners
c) Most Southerners
d) the founding fathers
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) the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter
d) Bleeding Kansas
Which of the following statements is true?
a) The South believed the individual states should have more power and the North believed the national government was supreme
b) The North believed the individual states should have more power and the South believed the national government was supreme
c) The North believed National and State Governments should have equal power
d) The South believed Federalism appropriately divides power between State and National Governments
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