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ROAD TO THE CIVIL WAR

Quiz by George Wells [Gibson MS]

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33 questions
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  • Q1
    Spreading slavery into new territories
    Expansion of slavery
    30s
  • Q2
    Conflicts over federal vs. states' rights
    Constitutional disputes
    30s
  • Q3
    North vs. South: tariffs, banks, internal improvements
    Economic differences
    30s
  • Q4
    Errors and extremism in politics
    Political mistakes
    30s
  • Q5
    Issue until the Civil War
    Balance of free vs. slave states
    30s
  • Q6
    Focus on expansion into new territories
    Conflict over slavery
    30s
  • Q7
    Opposed slavery expansion, wanted to keep African-Americans from settling in new territories
    Free Soil Movement
    30s
  • Q8
    Saw it as violation of constitutional rights to property
    Southern position on slavery expansion
    30s
  • Q9
    People in a territory vote on whether to be free or slave
    Popular Sovereignty
    30s
  • Q10
    Democratic Senator who proposed popular sovereignty
    Lewis Cass
    30s
  • Q11
    Democrats nominated Lewis Cass, Whigs nominated Zachary Taylor
    Election of 1848
    30s
  • Q12
    California admitted as free state, division of remaining Mexican territory, banning of slave trade, stricter fugitive slave law
    Compromise of 1850
    30s
  • Q13
    Required capture and return of escaped slaves, heavy penalties for hiding slaves
    Fugitive Slave Laws
    30s
  • Q14
    Secret organization aiding escaped slaves to freedom
    Underground Railroad
    30s
  • Q15
    Uncle Tom's Cabin: story of a slave and brutal owner, convinced northerners of evils of slavery
    Anti-Slavery Literature
    30s

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