Practice Test

Question 1

Why did Southern states fear Missouri’s entry into the Union as a free state?

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They did not want free states to have a majority in the Senate.

Question 2

Which battle resulted in both a Confederate victory and the death of General Stonewall Jackson?

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the Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 3

During the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln

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did not win the support of any Southern states.

Question 4

At the time of the Missouri Compromise, there was conflict between the North and the South because of

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differences in regional economies.

Question 5

Which statement best describes why many Southerners supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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It allowed the territories to enter the Union as slave states.

Question 6

In the 1850s, the North and South strongly disagreed about

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the spread of slavery.

Question 7

In the Scott v. Sandford case, the Supreme Court

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ruled in favor of Sandford.

Question 8

The outcome of the Second Battle of Bull Run

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placed the capital city Washington, DC, in danger.

Question 9

In May 1856, a proslavery mob attacked the town of

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Lawrence.

Question 10

Who opposed Dred Scott in his court case?

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his enslaver’s widow

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