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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