Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Quiz Yourself on the Events Leading into the Civil War

1. Slavery was already a divisive issue in the early Republic. Debates over extending it resulted in what 1820 compromise?

Louisiana Compromise

Kansas Compromise

Maine Compromise

Mississippi Compromise

Missouri Compromise

2. Jefferson's acquisition of what territory compelled Congress to establish policies governing the expansion of slavery?

Lousiana

Alaska

Northwest

New Mexico

California

3. The Wilmot Proviso was proposed to prevent slavery in territory that was acquired how?

Purchase

War

Treaty

Barter

Theft

4. Who brokered the Compromise of 1850?

Henry Clay and Frederick Douglass

Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln

Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass

5. What novel galvanized many Americans to join the abolition movement?

Last of the Mohicans

Little Women

The Red Badge of Courage

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Looking Backward

6. What act in 1854 opened up territory that had been previously banned from becoming slave states?

Missouri Compromise

Kansas Nebraska Act

Missouri Kansas Act

Texas Act

Georgia Alabama Act

7. What Supreme Court decision in 1857 dealt a blow to the abolitionist movement?

McCulloch v. Maryland

Gibbons v. Ogden

Cohens v. Virginia

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee

8. Where was John Brown's raid on October 16, 1859?

Richmond

Selma

Osawatomie

Topeka

Harper's Ferry

9. The election of whom in 1860 led to secession?

Abraham Lincoln

Zachary Taylor

Andrew Jackson

Ulysses Grant

James Polk

10. What was the first battle of the Civil War?

Bull Run

Manassas

Fort Sumter

Fort Donelson

Ball's Bluff