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