American Republic Final 2024

True or False- In a sense, the Mexican War served as a training ground for the Civil War that was to come.

• True
• False

What principle allowed the people in territories to decide whether they wished to allow slavery or not?

• popular soverignty
• popular law
• popular slavery
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Compromise of 1850 did all the following EXCEPT

• allow popular sovereignty
• introduce a stricter Fugitive Slave Law
• allow the admittance of Texas to the Union
• outlaw the slave trade in the District of Columbia

True or False- Lincoln ordered the resupplying of Fort Sumter

• True
• False

True or False- The South reasoned that because the states had voluntarily joined the Union, the states should be able to secede from the Union if they chose.

• True
• False

True or False- Most Northerners in the early 1800s were abolitionists who wanted equal rights for African Americans.

• True
• False

True or False- Some Southern states made it illegal to teach slaves to read and write.

• True
• False

True or False- Lincoln carried no Southern state in the 1860 election.

• True
• False

What novel published in 1852 created a great rift between the North and South?

• The Life of Fredrick Douglas
• 1984
• The Jungle
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Who became the president of the Confederacy?

• Robert E. Lee
• Jefferson Davis
• Andrew Johnson
• Abraham Lincoln