Civil War Trivia Q&A

Civil War: The March into War

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and then  "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1) What was the doctrine and policy that provided for the people of a territory, when they applied for admission to the Union, they voted to be either as a free state or slave state? The Federal government would be bounded by the people’s decision.

• Popular Sovereignty
• The 1820 Compromise
• State’s Rights

2) Congress passed a law that explicitly forbid Northern residents from giving refuge to escaped salves. What was the law called?

• Massachusetts Compromise
• Arm and Hammer Law
• Fugitive Slave Law

3) In 1854, Nebraska and Kansas applied for statehood. Congress repealed the Missouri Compromise and he slave/free line ended. Pro-slavery Missourians and anti-slavery Iowans pushed Kansas into civil warfare. What was lawless Kansas called?

• Bleeding Kansas
• The Kansas Massacre
• Heads-Up Kansas

4) What is the anti-slavery Kansas towns that was raided by raided by pro-slavery Missourians (Border Ruffians)?

• Abilene
• Lawrence
• Dodge City

5) hat was the book, published in book form in 1852, that became a sensation?

• The Tales of Texas
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Aunt Phillis’ Cabin

6) In 1862, President Lincoln meet the author at the White House. He said, “so you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” Who is the author?

• Mary Henderson Eastman
• Mary Todd
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

7) In 1857, the Supreme Court in a case ordered that government to honor ownership of human beings everywhere in the nation. Who was the African-American salve that started the court case?

• Dred Scott
• Max Bear
• Jim Abbott

8) John Brown after leaving Kansas moved to Boston to raise money for a raid the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). Who lead federal Marine troops against Brown?

• Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee
• Lt. James Ewell Brown Stuart
• Lt. Col. John Emerson

9) The 1862 song “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” became popular. What was the original title of the song?

• “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
• “The Morning to Glory”
• “John Brown’s Body”

10) Who was NOT a 1860 Presidential candidate?

• Stephen A. Douglas
• John C. Breckinridge
• James Buchanan

Check Your Answers

• 1) Popular Sovereignty was correct.
• 2) Fugitive Slave Law was correct.
• 3) Bleeding Kansas was correct.
• 4) Lawrence was correct.
• 5) Uncle Tom’s Cabin was correct.
• 6) Harriet Beecher Stowe was correct.
• 7) Dred Scott was correct.
• 8) Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee was correct.
• 9) “John Brown’s Body” was correct.
• 10) James Buchanan was correct.