#1
Who was the President of the United States during the majority of the antebellum period?
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
#2
What was the primary goal of the abolitionist movement in antebellum America?
To promote the expansion of slavery into new territories
To establish racial segregation laws
To end the institution of slavery
To ensure the rights of slaveholders
#3
Who was the author of the famous novel 'Moby-Dick', published in 1851?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
#4
Who was the famous African American abolitionist who escaped slavery and became a leading speaker against the institution?
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
#5
Which event led to the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845?
The Texas Revolution
The Battle of the Alamo
The Gadsden Purchase
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
#6
Which political party was formed in the 1850s with the primary goal of preventing the spread of slavery into new territories?
Whig Party
Democratic Party
Free Soil Party
Know-Nothing Party
#7
Who authored the influential novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which heightened tensions over the issue of slavery?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
#8
Who won the U.S. presidential election of 1860, which ultimately led to the secession of several Southern states?
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
John C. Breckinridge
John Bell
#9
Which event marked the beginning of the American Civil War?
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Gettysburg
The firing on Fort Sumter
The Emancipation Proclamation
#10
Who served as the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Stonewall Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
#11
Which legislation, passed in 1854, allowed for the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery within their borders through popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Missouri Compromise
#12
What was the major consequence of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case (1857)?
Slavery was declared unconstitutional in all U.S. territories.
The Missouri Compromise was upheld as constitutional.
Dred Scott was granted his freedom.
It was ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
#13
Which battle, fought in Pennsylvania in July 1863, is often considered the turning point of the Civil War?
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Shiloh
The Siege of Vicksburg
#14
Which abolitionist led the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, hoping to initiate a slave rebellion?
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
#15
What was the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in terms of the slavery debate?
It prohibited slavery in Kansas and Nebraska territories, establishing them as free states.
It repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed the residents of these territories to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty.
It established a federal ban on the expansion of slavery into any new territories acquired by the United States.
It declared that slavery would be abolished in all U.S. territories within the next decade.
#16
Which famous speech by Abraham Lincoln declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand'?
The Gettysburg Address
The Cooper Union Address
The Emancipation Proclamation
The House Divided Speech