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Toward Civil War

Quiz by Paul Bachman

Grade 8
Social Studies
California Public Schools Standards

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  • Q1
    The Whig Party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1849
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    False
    True
    30s
  • Q2
    The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.
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    False
    True
    30s
  • Q3
    The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.
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    False
    True
    30s
  • Q4
    John C. Calhoun offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso.
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    True
    False
    30s
  • Q5
    Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.
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    True
    False
    30s
  • Q6
    formed by people who opposed slavery
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    Henry David Thoreau
    Free-Soil Party
    Compromise of 1850
    Freeport Doctrine
    30s
  • Q7
    arose from the Lincoln-Douglas debates
    Compromise of 1850
    Free-Soil Party
    Roger B. Taney
    Freeport Doctrine
    30s
  • Q8
    wrote “Civil Disobedience”
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    Freeport Doctrine
    Roger B. Taney
    Henry David Thoreau
    Abraham Lincoln
    30s
  • Q9
    wrote the Dred Scott decision
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    Henry David Thoreau
    Roger B. Taney
     Freeport Doctrine
    Thurgood Marshall
    30s
  • Q10
    Stephen Douglas’s resolution of Henry Clay’s slavery plan
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    Compromise of 1850
    Freeport Doctrine
    Missouri Compromise
    Free-Soil Party
    30s
  • Q11
    The enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act led to
    resolution of the slavery question
    recognition of states’ rights
    anger in the North
    compromise on the slavery question
    30s
  • Q12
    When Franklin Pierce was elected president in 1853, he intended to
    abolish slavery
    enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
    help fund the Underground Railroad
    split the nation into two countries
    30s
  • Q13
    James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state?
    Maine
    Texas
    North Carolina
    Missouri
    30s
  • Q14
    How did some Whigs vote on the Compromise of 1850?
    They voted against it
    They abstained from voting
    They protested the vote.
    They voted for it
    30s
  • Q15
    Who was a violent opponent of slavery?
    John Brown
    Charles Sumner
    Preston Brooks
    Andrew P. Butler
    30s

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