1. What were anti-slavery activists called?
A. Freethinkers
B. Abolitionists
C. Confederates
2. At which location did Confererate troops first fire upon the Union Army, in 1861?
A. Fort Sumter
B. Pearl Harbor
C. Lexington and Concord
3. The idea that states should be able to make their own laws is known as:
A. Federalism
B. State's Rights
C. capitalism
4. What was the Nullification Crisis?
A. The weeks after the Missouri Compromise
B. The period when South Carolina threatened to secede over taxes.
C. Whe John Brown led his slave rebellion in Virginia.
5. Which Constitutional amendment deals with power of states to make their own laws?
A. the Tenth Amendment
B. the First Amendment
C. the Fourteenth Amendment
6. Which one of these states was NOT a member of the Confederacy?
A. Georgia
B. Virginia
C. New Hampshire
7. What compromise divided the Louisiana Purchase into free and slave territories?
A. The Mississippi Compromise
B. The Missouri Compromise
C. The Virginia Plan
8. What congresional act effectively repealed the borders drawn by the Missouri Compromise?
A. Teh Kentucky-Nevada Act
B. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
C. The Kansas-Oklahoma Act
9. What Supreme Court decision upheld the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A. The Dred Scott decision
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Patrick v. Squidward
10. What event made the southern states finally decide to secede?
A. The Dred Scott case
B. The election of Abraham Lincoln
C. New tariffs
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