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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country?NationalismSectionalismPopular SovereigntySecession - 2. Multiple ChoiceThe Civil War was originally fought over what?SlaveryTaxesSecessionImports/Exports
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat term means the God given right to control everything from sea to sea?ProvisoPopular SovereigntySecessionManifest Destiny
- 4. Multiple ChoiceEvery state north of Missouri's southern border had to be what kind of state?FreeSlaveTerritorySovereign
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhere was it important to keep an equal amount of free and slave states?Supreme CourtCongressGovernorsWestern Territories
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWas the Missouri Compromise strictly enforced?YesNo
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWho was the senator from Massachusetts that was beaten with a cane on the floor of congress by another congressman because he was speaking poorly about slave owners?Preston BrooksAbraham LincolnStephan A. DouglasCharles Sumner
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat idea was introduced by the Compromise of 1850?Popular SovereigntySucessionLimited GovernmentFugitive Slave Law
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat word means that the people have the power to choose their own government and they give it power to make appropriate laws?UnionPopular SovereigntySecessionReferendum
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat states were granted popular sovereignty by the Compromise of 1850?Northern StatesSouthern StatesNew StatesAll States
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat erased the Missouri Compromise?Fugitive Slave LawKansas-Nebraska ActCompromise of 1850Bleeding Kansas
- 12. Multiple ChoicePopular Sovereignty was granted to who by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?All StatesNorthern StatesSouthern StatesNew States
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWho is the slave that brought his case all the way to the Supreme Court trying and gain his freedom?Stephen DouglasHarriet TubmanDred ScottFredrick Douglas
- 14. Multiple ChoiceHow did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?In favor of Dred ScottAgainst Dred Scott
- 15. Multiple ChoiceAccording to the Supreme Court, slaves can never be what?CitizensOwn LandPaidBought
- 16. Multiple ChoiceBecause slaves are not humans and therefore not citizens, they can't do what?Sue PeopleOwn LandWorkBe Free
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe word that means to leave an organization or a collective group?SecessionUnionConfederacyPopular Sovereignty
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe election of what president was the final straw that caused the south to leave the country and start their own?James K. PolkAbraham LincolnUlysses S. GrantJames Buchannan
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe name given to the North was what?UnionConfederacyFree United StatesCanada
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe name given to the southern states was what?UnionFree StatesConfederacyMexico
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