The Road To The Civil War Test

Question 1

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 2

Who was known as “The Great Compromiser”?

Answer 2

Henry Clay

Question 3

According to this agreement, slavery would not be permitted in any states coming out of the Louisiana Territory above the 36’30 line.

Answer 3

Missouri Compromise

Question 4

Who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 4

Stephen Douglas

Question 5

What party’s strength was derived solely from the North prior the Civil War?

Answer 5

Republican

Question 6

Who was the chief Justice of US Supreme Court?

Answer 6

Roger B. Taney

Question 7

What is the belief that the people who live in a territory have the power to decide if slavery is permitted there?

Answer 7

Popular sovereignty

Question 8

What law divided the Nebraska territory into two territories?

Answer 8

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 9

What is the belief that salve owners were working together to spread slavery across the US?

Answer 9

Slave Power conspiracy

Question 10

Who was the Republicans nominee for president in 1860?

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln

Question 11

Most Southerners owned slaves prior to 1860.

True or False?

Answer 11

False

Question 12

The Kansas-Nebraska Act brought about the division and eventual downfall of the Whig Party.

True or False?

Answer 12

True

Question 13

The North built built fewer railroads than the South because they depended primarily on water transportation.

True or False?

Answer 13

False

Question 14

Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold very few copies until after the Civil War.

True or False?

Answer 14

False

Question 15

In the 1850’s, the Republican Party believed in a strong national government and opposed the spread of slavery.

True or False?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What party formed out of the opposition to Andrew Jackson?

Answer 16

The Whig Party

Question 17

List 2 Parts of the Compromise of 1850:

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Answer 17

• California was free

- The rest of the Mexican territory that was won would be decided by popular sovereignty

Question 18

What was the name given to all the violence in Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 18

Bleeding Kansas

Question 19

What is the Dred Scott Decision?

Answer 19

The belief that slavery could remain where it already existed but should not be allowed to spread to the territories

Question 20

What was the nation’s most valuable export in the 1850’s?

Answer 20

Cotton

Question 21

List 2 Parts of the Dred Scott Decision

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Answer 21

• Slavery is allowed above the 36’30 line because the US Supreme Court said that Congress can’t decide if slaves can come above the 36’30 line
• You can take slaves into Northern Territory

Question 22

What people engaged in a series of widely-followed debates during the 1858 Illinois Senate race?

Answer 22

Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

Question 23

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Answer 23

• Clean

- Chivalry

Question 24

List 2 (often stereotypes and myths) that Southerners believed about the North

Answer 24

• Dirty

- Rude

Question 25

Who led the raid on arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in 1859?

Answer 25

John Brown

Question 26

What event in 1860 brought about the secession of the Southern states?

Answer 26

Election of 1860 (Abe becoming president)

Question 27

What US officer led troops to capture those involved in the raid on the arsenal at Harpers’ Ferry?

Answer 27

Robert E. Lee