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Pre-test Civil War

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History

8th Grade

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Pre-test Civil War
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Disagreement over new states being free states or slave states was a cause of the

Spoils System.

Fugitive Slave Act

Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?

Zachary Taylor

Abraham Lincoln

James K. Polk

Ulysses S. Grant

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The first state to secede from the Union in 1860 was

South Carolina

Virginia

Maine

Ohio

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

Fort Sumter

Bunker Hill

Vicksburg

Gettysburg

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What famous African American abolitionist, speaker and writer could have been captured and returned to slavery?

Fredrick Douglas

William Lloyd Garrison

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The law that required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people was the

Removal Act

Fugitive Slave Act

Runaway Act

Slave Owners Act

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What Supreme Court decision meant that the Constitution protected slavery?

Missouri-Compromise

Lincoln-Douglas debate

the Dred Scott case

election of 1856

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