Road to the Civil War Quiz

Road to the Civil War Quiz

8th Grade

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25 Qs

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Road to the Civil War Quiz

Road to the Civil War Quiz

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8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The main challenge America faced from its founding to the Civil War was what to do about ___________.

Taxes

Voting

Health Care

Slavery

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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This law allowed California to enter as a free state, opened up the rest of the Mexican Cession to slavery via popular sovereignty, banned slave trading in Washington, D.C., and required a harsh new fugitive slave law.

Missouri Compromise

Great Compromise

Compromise of 1850

New York Compromise

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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This is the idea that since political power belongs to the people, they should decide on banning or allowing slavery in their territory.

abolition

secession

popular sovereignty

states' rights

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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This law made it a crime to help runaway slaves and forced people in free states to help the police round up escaped slaves.

Personal Liberty Law

Fugitive Slave Act

Slave Hunter Act

Kansas-Nebraska Act

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel in 1852, which described the horrors of slavery.

The Terrible South

The Evils of Slavery

12 Years a Slave

Uncle Tom's Cabin

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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In 1854, this law opened up more western territories to slavery with popular sovereignty, repealing the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery there.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Fugitive Slave Act

Wilmot Proviso

Secession Act

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When thousands of pro- and anti- slavery men poured into Kansas and started fighting a bloody civil war against each other, this was called...

The Devastation of Kansas

Wounded Kansas

The Kansas Massacre

Bleeding Kansas

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