Secession and War Quiz
1) The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because...
:The Senate was pro-slavery.
:It would create sectionalism.
:It would upset the balance.***
:The Senate was anti-slavery.
2) The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was...
:Western territories.
:War with Mexico.
:Slavery.***
:The economy.
3) Southerners justified secession with the theory of...
:Constitutional rights.
:Federal rights.
:The Union's errors.
:States' rights.***
4) What plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico?
:Missouri Compromise.
:Clay's Plan.
:Mexican Plan.
:Wilmot Proviso.***
5) What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system?
:Slavery in the South.
:Slavery's System.
:African Americans in Slavery.
:Uncle Tom's Cabin.***
6) What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?
:Texas.
:Kansas.***
:Missouri.
:South Carolina.
7) In the election of 1856, the presidency was secured for James Buchanan by...
:Northern votes.
:Republican votes.
:Southern votes.***
:Whig votes.
8) What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?
:Fugitive Slave case.
:Dred Scott case.***
:Clay's ruling.
:John Brown case.
9) Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights came to be known as...
:Douglas's Debate.
:The Slaveholder's Rights.
:The Freeport Doctrine.***
:Douglas's Doctrine.
10) How did the 1860 election contribute to the breakup of the Union?
:By electing a president many believed would not protect Southern rights.***
:By electing a pro-slavery president whom the North would not tolerate.
:By allowing freed slaves to vote.
:By electing a president whose stated intention was to outlaw slavery immediately.
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