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Chapter 15: Road to Civil War

Road to Civil War

1
To balance Missouri’s admission as a slave state, __________ was admitted as a free state.
A)California
B)Maine
C)Kansas
D)New Mexico
2
As part of the Compromise of 1850, __________ was admitted as a free state.
A)New Mexico
B)Maine
C)Oregon
D)California
3
As part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was abolished in __________.
A)New Mexico
B)Texas
C)the District of Columbia
D)Maryland
4
The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was __________.
A)Harriet Beecher Stowe
B)John Greenleaf Whittier
C)Stephen A. Douglas
D)Sarah Grimké
5
Stephen A. Douglas’s plan to allow each territory to vote on slavery was called __________.
A)popular choice
B)territorial sovereignty
C)popular sovereignty
D)electoral choice
6
Many proslavery supporters rushed into Kansas from __________.
A)Missouri
B)Louisiana
C)Arkansas
D)Nebraska
7
__________ was an enslaved African American whose suit for freedom reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
A)Roger Taney
B)John Frémont
C)Dred Scott
D)Millard Fillmore
8
John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal at __________.
A)Washington, D.C.
B)Harpers Ferry, Virginia
C)Fort Sumter, South Carolina
D)Lawrence, Kansas
9
In 1860 the Republican candidate for president was __________.
A)John Bell
B)John Breckinridge
C)Stephen A. Douglas
D)Abraham Lincoln
10
The first state to secede from the Union was __________.
A)South Carolina
B)Alabama
C)Virginia
D)Mississippi
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