Quiz Time!

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Quiz Time!

• 1. The term secession refers to which action
  taken by Southern states before the American
  Civil War?
• leaving the Union
• voting to be slave or free
• eliminating the Constitution
• compromising about slavery

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2. The presence of the Underground Railroad, as
shown in the map below, had the effect of
________ the North and South before the
Civil War.
unifying joining dividing connecting
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3. Who was known as the Great Compromiser
for his proposal of the Missouri
Compromise? Andrew Jackson Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun George Washington
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4. In 1854, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas
introduced what act, which allowed two new
Midwestern states to choose whether they would
allow slavery? Missouri Compromise Kansas-N
ebraska Act Illinois-Iowa Act
Oklahoma-Texas Compromise
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5. The Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court
decision in 1857 reinforced the idea that slaves
had no political rights because they were
considered to be which of the following? above
the law too partial to be fair mere
property uneducated
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6. The idea of allowing the people of a
territory to decide if it would be slave or free
was known as what? Factionalism Abolition
ism Popular Sovereignty Constitutional
Monarchy
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7. From the point of view of many Northerners,
John Brown was a________. martyr for a just
cause . crazy rebel Southern spy
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• 8. The 1860 presidential candidate whose name
  did not appear on the ballot in most Southern
  states was
• John Breckinridge
• John Bell
• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen Douglas

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• 9. What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed
  slavery as a brutal, cruel system?
• Slavery in the South
• Slavery As It Is
• Bleeding Kansas
• Uncle Toms Cabin

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• 10. A Person could be fined up to 1,000 or be
  imprisoned for breaking the law stated in the
  _____________.
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Dred Scott Act
• Southern Slave Act

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Why was the state of Maine admitted into the
Union as a free state as part of the Missouri
Compromise of 1820?
a. it was rejected as a slave state b. to
maintain the balance of power between slave and
free states c. it was too large to be a
territory d. to shift the balance of power in
the country to the free states
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Which of the following completes the table on
Congressional Compromises below?
Congressional Compromises Before 1861 Congressional Compromises Before 1861 Congressional Compromises Before 1861
Missouri Compromise ? Kansas-Nebraska Act
Maine admitted to the Union as a free state California admitted to the Union as a free state Voided Missouri Compromise
Banned slavery in the Louisiana Purchase north of 3630' Created new territories of New Mexico and Arizona Decided slavery issue in Kansas territory
a. Rush-Bagot Agreement c. Declaration of
Independence b. Compromise of 1850 d.
Proclamation of 1763
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The 3630' line shown on the map below, which
designated slave territory to the South and free
territory to the North, was established by what
government act?
a. the Compromise of 1850 c. the Free/Slave
Territory Act b. the Kansas-Nebraska Act d.
the Missouri Compromise
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Who is the U.S. government figure shown and
described below?
- Vice President under John Adams and Andrew Jackson
- Supported states rights and nullification
- Senator from South Carolina
- Supported slavery and the agricultural South before the Civil War
- Opposed Compromise of 1850
a. Stephen Douglas c. Henry Clay b.
Daniel Webster d. John Calhoun
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• Abolitionists, who were active in the North
  before the Civil War, believed in what?
• doing away with slavery
• helping slave owners
• c. helping the aboriginal peoples
• d. doing away with alcohol

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• The idea of allowing the people of a territory to
  decide if it would be slave or free was known as
  what?
• factionalism
• Abolitionism
• c. popular sovereignty
• d. constitutional monarchy

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• The issue that lay beneath many of the pre-Civil
  War congressional compromises, such as the
  Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
  was what?
• taxation without representation
• Slavery
• over-industrialization in the South
• trade with Europe

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Refer to the chart listing Historic Quotations.
Who said that
Historic Quotations Historic Quotations
Without their the peoples aid it is beyond the power of any President . . . to restore peace and harmony among the States. Wisely limited . . . under our Constitution and laws, he alone can accomplish but little for good or for evil on such a momentous question. (December 1860)
Sam Houston You may, after the sacrifice of countless thousands of treasure and hundreds of thousands of precious lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence, if God be not against you but I doubt it. (January 1861)
Abraham Lincoln In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. . . . You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. (March 1861)
Jefferson Davis Our present condition . . . illustrates the American idea that governments rest upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish governments whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established. (February 1861)
A Daniel Webster B Thomas Jefferson C James
Buchannan D George Washington.