Topic 9 Part 1 Review

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

• True

• False

Which of these was the result of the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• anger in the North

• compromise on the slavery question

• recognition of states' rights

• resolution of the slavery question

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: Lincoln believed slavery was moral and right.

• True

• False

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

• attack on Fort Sumter

• Lincoln-Douglas debates

• Lincoln inauguration

• secession of South Carolina

Lincoln responded to a message from the commander of Fort Sumter by ____.

• sending three regiments of Union soldiers

• sending a fleet of U.S. Navy ships

• sending unarmed men with supplies for the fort

• sending a letter to Jefferson Davis

Which was the first state to secede from the Union?

• Texas

• Alabama

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

Southerners did not support the Wilmot Proviso because it _____.

• 1. banned secession by any state

• 1. banned slavery in northern states

• 1. banned slavery in all the states

• 1. banned slavery in lands acquired from Mexico

Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

• Preston Brooks

• John Brown

• Andrew P. Butler

• Charles Sumner

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: As part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.

• True

• False

Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?

• Robert E. Lee

• Francis Pickens

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis