Events Leading to Civil War

Events Leading to Civil War

8th Grade

15 Qs

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Events Leading to Civil War

Events Leading to Civil War

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North the most?

Allowing California in as a free state
Ending the slave trade in Washington DC
using popular sovereignty to decide Utah and New Mexico
the stricter Fugitive Slave Act

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Who wrote the Liberator and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans?

Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?

It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
It made slavery more important to the South.
It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

allowed the federal government to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, even in free states

Fugitive Slave Act
Wilmot Proviso
The Declaration of Sentiments
Harper's Ferry

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Why did the South oppose adding new free states like California to the Union? 

they believed this would cause more tariffs to be passed
they believed this could result in the expansion of slavery
they believed this could result in the break-up of the Union
they believed this would cause an imbalance in power between slave and free states in Congress

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What did the Dred Scott decision say?

It considered slaves to be property without rights.
It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states
It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states
It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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A consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:

violence between pro-slavery and abolitionist groups
gold was discovered in Nebraska
John Brown led a slave revolt
Dred Scott sued for his freedom

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