1) A tax to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports is called .. a) slavery b) tariff c) secession d) nullification 2) The refusal of a state to recognize or enforce within its territory any federal law held to be an infringement on its sovereignty. a) tariff b) secession c) slavery d) nullification 3) A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. a) Fugitive Slave Act b) Missouri Compromise c) Kansas-Nebraska Act d) Dred Scott Case 4) An act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri. a) Fugitive Slave Act b) Missouri Compromise c) Compromise of 1850 d) Kansas-Nebraska Act 5) An American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. a) Henry Clay b) John Brown c) Dred Scott d) Abraham Lincoln 6) A War fought between states supporting the federal union and southern states that voted to secede and form the Confederate States of America a) French and Indian War b) Revolutionary War c) Civil War d) Mexican War 7) This candidate won the presidential election of 1860. Becoming his party's first President of the United States. a) John C. Breckenridge b) Abraham Lincoln c) John Bell d) Stephen Douglas 8) U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United States and therefore did not have the right to sue in federal court. a) Dred Scott Decision b) Compromise of 1850 c) Missouri Compromise d) Fugitive Slave Act 9) A formal separation from an alliance or federation. a) slavery b) secession c) succession d) civil war 10) The proclamation that accepted the measures of the compromise so long as the North complied with the Fugitive Slave Act and would no longer attempt to ban the expansion of slavery into new territories and states a) Election of 1860 b) Dred Scott Decision c) The Georgia Platform d) Missouri Compromise 11) Political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution a) human rights b) states rights c) natural rights d) left rights

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