US History - Quiz 18

Question 1

proposed the Freeport Doctrine

Answer 1

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 2

led an uprising in Harper’s Ferry

Answer 2

John Brown

Question 3

helped win the First Battle of Bull Run for the South

Answer 3

Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 4

the president of the Confederacy

Answer 4

Jefferson Davis

Question 5

presented the Compromise of 1850

Answer 5

Henry Clay

Question 6

former slave; a leader of the Underground Railroad

Answer 6

Harriet Tubman

Question 7

this bill proposed the organization of two territories west of the Mississippi; slave or free through popular sovereignty

Answer 7

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 8

first state to secede from the Union

Answer 8

South Carolina

Question 9

first shots of the Civil War were fired here

Answer 9

Fort Sumter

Question 10

when did the Civil War begin?

Answer 10

1861