Answer the following questions.
1) Which two areas of disagreement led to sectional feeling in the United States before the Civil War?
Tariffs
Transportation systems
Industry sectors
Slavery
Natural resources
2) What four agreements that worked for 10 years made up the Compromise of 1850?
A border dispute between Texas and the territory of New Mexico would be settled in favor of New Mexico, allowing Santa Fe to become part of that new state when organized.
Arizona would be admitted as a free state.
A tough fugitive slave law would be enacted.
California would be admitted as a free state.
The slave trade would be reinstated in Washington, D.C.
The slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
3) By what nicknames were the illegal voters in Kansas known based upon their views and home states?
Missouri (pro-slavery Southerners)
Nebraska and Illinois (abolitionists)
4) What abolitionist leader led a group of men on a massacre of settlers in Kansas?
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
Dred Scott
Stephen Douglas
John Brown
5) What was the purpose of the fugitive slave laws?
These laws required runaway slaves to be returned.
These laws required runaway slaves to be freed.
These laws required runaway slaves to be killed.
The laws required runaway slaves to be deported.
These laws required runaway slaves to be imprisoned.
6) The _________ Railroad was a series of safe houses, way stations, water and food stops, and guides who helped runaway slaves escape to freedom, usually to Canada.
Overground
Fugitive
Underground
Notorious
Freedom
7) What Supreme Court decision ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional?
Cherokee Nation v. Missouri
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Worchester v. Missouri
The Emancipation Proclamation
Brown v. Board of Education
8) Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Frederick Douglas
Dred Scott
Harriet Beecher Stowe
President Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
9) What set of debates in 1858 became important to the 1860 Presidential elections?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Scott-Douglas Debates
Lincoln-Stowe Dabtes
Douglas-Stowe Debates
Lincoln-Scott Debates
10) What federal arsenal came under attack by John Brown and his men?
Brown's Ferry
Lincoln's Ferry
Kansas-Nebraska Ferry
Lee's Ferry
Harper's Ferry
11) Select the states of the Confederate States of America.
Mississippi
South Carolina
Florida
North Carolina
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Texas
Arkansas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Alabama
Louisiana
Georgia