Antebellum Quiz

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Created Missouri as a slave state

• Freed the slaves in the confederate states

• Issued popular sovereignty in Kansa and Nebraska

• Issued popular sovereignty in Missouri and Ohio

Martyr is someone who...

• Supports slavery

• Dies while fighting for justice

• Dies without a cause

• opposes slavery

The ______ party was founded on opposing the spread of slavery.

How did the south react to the election of 1860?

• They felt the government did not represent them.

• They were excited to start issuing democratic laws

• The did not care about the election

• None of the Above

True or False: John Brown raided Harpers Ferry to arm enslaved people in order to revolt.

• False

• True

True or False: Popular sovereignty in the Kansas-Nebraska act succeeded.

• True

• False

Which of these (2) was the correct effect of the Kansas-Nebraska act?

• The establishment of California as a free state

• The Compromise of 1860 was repealed

• illegal voting took place as both pro and anti- slavery people poured over border to vote

• The Missouri compromise line was repealed

The north ____ John Brown; The south _____ John Brown

• did not support; did not support

• supported; supported

• did not support; supported

• supported; did not support

True or False: The supreme court sided with the north in the ruling of the Scott V Sanford case.

• False

• True

Which correctly describes the Scott v Sanford Case? (more than one)

• None of the above

• Caused an increase in sectionalism

• Banning slavery was considered unconstitutional after the ruling of the case

• Supreme court ruled that all people of African decent are not considered citizens on the US