Unit 12 Review

What is NOT one of the causes of the American Civil War?

• slavery

• secession

• sectionalism

• states' rights

• sedition

What Amendment did the South claim gave them states’ rights and the legal right to secede?

• 10th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

What state seceded first?

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Georgia

• Virginia

What document included the 3/5’s Compromise & was written by our Founding Fathers?

• The US Constitution

• Missouri Compromise

• The Declaration of Independence

• Compromise of 1850

What Compromise stated there was no slavery above the 36”30’ parallel & admitted Maine in as a free state?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

What was the goal of the Free-Soil Party?

• to keep slavery out of the western territories

• to promote the expansion of slavery into new territories

• to keep slavery out of the Northern states

• to end all slavery immediately

Which of the following are 3 of the 5 things the Compromise of 1850 accomplished?

• Admitted California as a free state, abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C., and enacted a stricter Fugitive Slave Law

• Admitted Texas as a slave state, abolished slavery in all territories, and enacted a stricter Fugitive Slave Law

• Admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to decide on slavery, and abolished slavery in all territories

• Admitted Texas as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to decide on slavery, and abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C.

What law required ALL citizens to help catch runaway slaves & send them back to the South?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was Congress trying to do when they passed The Compromise of 1850?

• Keep the Union together

• Expand slavery to new territories

• Establish a national bank

• Declare independence from Britain

In the Kansas Nebraska Act, who got to decide the issue of slavery?

• people living in the territory

• the federal government

• the President

• the Supreme Court