Pre-Civil War Quiz

Which invention led to an increase in the production of cotton and helped Southern farmers become more productive?  (Therefore leading to more slave labor)

• Mechanical Reaper

• Cotton Gin

• Steamboat

• Vulcanized Rubber

When people favor the interest of one region over those of the entire country, this is called ___________.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

• Sectionalism

• Fugitive Slave Act

Someone who is against slavery is:

Which of the following was NOT part of the abolitionist movement?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• American Colonization Society

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Angelina and Sarah Grimke

The idea that would allow voters in a particular region to decide whether to allow slavery or not.

• secession

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

• Popular Sovereignty

What state entered the Union as a free state as part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Kansas

• California

• Missouri

• Maine

What state entered the Union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Kansas

• California

• Missouri

• Maine

True or False:  The Compromise of 1850 declared it legal to trade slaves within the city limits of Washington D.C.

This made it a federal crime to assist run-away slaves.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Decision

• 14th Amendment

• Underground Railroad

Abraham Lincoln called this woman “the little lady who made this big war” by writing an anti-slavery novel titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Who was she?

• Angelina Grimke

• Harriet Tubman

• Lucy Stone

• Harriet Beecher Stowe