HIST 119: Civil War Causation

Union, slavery, party crisis, and secession.

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Question 1

Which issue most directly intensified sectional conflict in the decades before the Civil War?

The expansion of slavery into western territories
The creation of the Federal Reserve
The annexation of Alaska
The prohibition of all tariffs

Question 2

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was especially destabilizing because it did what?

Opened territories to popular sovereignty over slavery
Ended all westward migration
Abolished the Senate
Created the income tax

Question 3

What did the Dred Scott decision hold about Congress and slavery in the territories?

Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the territories
Congress had already abolished slavery nationwide
Territorial courts could not hear any civil cases
Only state governors could interpret the Constitution

Question 4

Why was the Election of 1860 a secession trigger for many Southern leaders?

Lincoln won on a platform opposing slavery's expansion
Lincoln campaigned to abolish private property immediately
The Supreme Court canceled the election
No Southern states participated in the election

Question 5

The phrase 'King Cotton' refers to what antebellum belief?

Cotton exports gave the South economic and diplomatic leverage
Cotton was legally crowned as a monarch
Northern factories had no link to cotton
Cotton could replace all food crops

Question 6

What was Fort Sumter's significance in 1861?

Confederate firing on the fort marked the start of open war
It was where the Constitution was signed
It was the site of Appomattox surrender
It ended Reconstruction

Question 7

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

Thirteenth Amendment
First Amendment
Tenth Amendment
Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Question 8

Reconstruction debates centered most directly on which question?

How to rebuild the Union and define freedom after slavery
How to admit Hawaii as a state
Whether to join NATO
How to regulate radio broadcasting

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