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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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