8-3.4 Causes of the Civil War
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How did John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry further increase sectionalism in the southern states?
Southerners encouraged John Brown's pro-slavery actions and supported his raid.
Southerners feared that abolitionists and freed slaves were a danger to them.
Northerners claimed Brown's actions violated the Dred Scott decision.
Northerners were shocked by the violence of Brown's raid and demanded his execution.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was South Carolina's reaction to the election of Abraham Lincoln?
They gave him the name "Honest Abe".
There were calls for Secession.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Dred Scott Decision.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the result of the Mexican-American War?
United States becomes a vassal of Mexico.
United States acquired land from Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
Free States expanded and ended slavery in the U.S.A.
United States, Mexico, and Canada agree to NAFTA.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"I hold that...the Constitution (states), the union of these States is (forever)....It follows....that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union"
Abraham Lincoln is referring to what theory?
Theory of Gravity.
Theory of Abolition.
Theory of Secession.
Theory of Protective Tariffs.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Bleeding Kansas was ________
a radical abolitionist political party
a conflict between Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery elements over the state of slavery in Kansas
a Supreme Court decision to cattle butchering in Kansas
a decision to send Native Americans to the New Mexico desert, many died in Kansas
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following was repealed by allowing popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska?
Compromise of 1850.
Fugitive Slave Law.
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Missouri Compromise.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was a result of the Dred Scott decision?
It counted slaves as three-fifths of a person.
It caused an imbalance in representation in Congress.
It nullified popular sovereignty.
Slaves were property, and could be taken anywhere, even free states.
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