Steps to the Civil War

Steps to the Civil War

7th - 8th Grade

20 Qs

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Steps to the Civil War

Steps to the Civil War

Assessment

Quiz

History

7th - 8th Grade

Medium

CCSS
RL.7.9, RL.8.9

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20 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

All of the following are things that led up to the Civil War EXCEPT

The invention of the Cotton Gin

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Dred Scott Decision

John Brown's Raid

The Missouri Compromise

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When the southern states left the Union, they created the

United States of America

Republic of America

Confederate States of America

Slaveholder States of America

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

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Which event allowed expansion to the west by balancing the entry of a slave state with a free state.

Compromise of 1850

Missouri Copromise

Three-fifths Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

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The ______________ resulted in the capturing of enslaved person as well as freedmen.

Three-Fifths Compromise

Missouri Compromise

Fugitive Slave Act

Dred Scott Case

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Fighting breaks out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Three-fifths Compromise

Nullification Crisis

Missouri Compromise

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

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Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln wins the Presidential election of 1860, resulting in....

South Carolina seceding

Harriet Beecher Stowe writing Uncle Tom's Cabin

the Fugitive Slave act being passed by Congress

the Annexation of Texas

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

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Most slaves were located...

Upper South

Lower South

Evenly throughout the South

Southern textile mills

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