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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe first state to secede from the Union wasCaliforniaNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaGeorgia
- 2. Multiple ChoiceThe idea that people should have the power to decide whether or not to allow slavery in a territory was known asManifest DestinyNationalismPopular SovereigntyFree Soil Party
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe main issue of the Lincoln- Douglas debates wasTaxesSlaveryState BoundariesLincoln's Hat
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe first shots of the Civil War were fired atAppomattox Court HouseLexington and ConcordGettysburgFort Sumter
- 5. Multiple ChoiceAfter southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America, they named ________________ their president.Robert E. LeeAbraham LincolnStephen DouglasJefferson Davis
- 6. Multiple ChoiceSouthern States were angered when northern states refused to enforced theFugitive Slave ActStamp ActEmancipation ProclamationTea Tax
- 7. Multiple ChoiceHe was an abolitionists who led a raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry.John BrownFrederick DouglasRobert E. LeeStephen Douglas
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat Supreme Court case resulted in the Missouri Compromise being overturned?Plessey v. FergusonThe Frederick Douglas CaseThe Dredd Scott DecisionTubman v. Lee
- 9. Multiple ChoiceBecause of this act, pro and anti rushed into Kansas and Nebraska to cast votes on slavery.Bleeding KansasKansas- Nebraska ActDred Scott DecisionLincoln-Douglas Debates
- 10. Multiple ChoiceAn action taken by southern states after Abraham Lincoln was elected President.AbolitionismSecedeSectionalismSouth took no action
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe ________________ Party formed from problems in the Whig Party.RepublicanDemocraticGreenConstitutional
- 12. Multiple ChoiceSoutherners justified secession with the theory ofConstitutional rightsfederal rightsthe Union's errorsstates' rights
- 13. Multiple ChoiceIn the congressional election of 1858, the Senate race in which state was the center of national attention?IllinoisIndianaOhioMichigan
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate becausethe Senate was pro-slaveryit would create sectionalismit would upset the balancethe Senate was anti- slavery
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWho won the presidential election of 1860?John C. CalhounJohn BellAbraham LincolnJohn Breckinridge
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico?Missouri CompromiseClay's PlanMexican PlanWilmot Proviso
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