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Chapter 15: Road to Civil War
      
  1.To balance Missouri’s admission as a slave state, __________ was admitted as a free state.  
  a.   California  
  b.   Maine  
  c.   Kansas  
  d.   New Mexico  
      
  2.As part of the Compromise of 1850, __________ was admitted as a free state.  
  a.   New Mexico  
  b.   Maine  
  c.   Oregon  
  d.   California  
      
  3.As part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was abolished in __________.  
  a.   New Mexico  
  b.   Texas  
  c.   the District of Columbia  
  d.   Maryland  
      
  4.The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was __________.  
  a.   Harriet Beecher Stowe  
  b.   John Greenleaf Whittier  
  c.   Stephen A. Douglas  
  d.   Sarah Grimké  
      
  5.Stephen A. Douglas’s plan to allow each territory to vote on slavery was called __________.  
  a.   popular choice  
  b.   territorial sovereignty  
  c.   popular sovereignty  
  d.   electoral choice  
      
  6.Many proslavery supporters rushed into Kansas from __________.  
  a.   Missouri  
  b.   Louisiana  
  c.   Arkansas  
  d.   Nebraska  
      
  7.__________ was an enslaved African American whose suit for freedom reached the U.S. Supreme Court.  
  a.   Roger Taney  
  b.   John Frémont  
  c.   Dred Scott  
  d.   Millard Fillmore  
      
  8.John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal at __________.  
  a.   Washington, D.C.  
  b.   Harpers Ferry, Virginia  
  c.   Fort Sumter, South Carolina  
  d.   Lawrence, Kansas  
      
  9.In 1860 the Republican candidate for president was __________.  
  a.   John Bell  
  b.   John Breckinridge  
  c.   Stephen A. Douglas  
  d.   Abraham Lincoln  
      
  10.The first state to secede from the Union was __________.  
  a.   South Carolina  
  b.   Alabama  
  c.   Virginia  
  d.   Mississippi  

 






 
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