U.S. History Test 8 Review
The states that had seceded set up a new nation called the
Confederate States of America
The Confederate attack on ______________ was the first battle of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
passage of a tougher national figure
The South chose ________________ as president of its new nation.
Jefferson Davis
The first state to secede from the Union was
South Carolina
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?
slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into the territories or new states
All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the
Passage of the Wilmot Proviso
How did the South react to Abraham Lincoln's election as President in 1860?
Seven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
Which of the following was a point made in the Dred Scott decision?
Slaves were property, even if they lived in a free territory