
Causes of the Civil War
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8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What issue was dividing the nation in the 1800s?
westward expansion
environmental issues
slavery
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which is true of the northern United States?
depended on cash crop farming
anti-slavery
few railroads
supported slavery
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Under this law, the government was trying to keep a balance of slave and free states by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
Kansas -Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Under this law, California entered the union as a free state and the South got the Fugitive Slave Law.
Great Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the big question addressed by these laws?
Should the U.S. expand west?
Should states have the right to nullify federal laws?
Should slavery expand into new states?
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which correctly describes the effect of the Compromise of 1850 on runaway slaves and freedmen?
Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law.
Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C. slave markets.
Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Texas.
Kansas entered the union as a slave state.
Nebraskan settlers who supported the abolition of slavery moved to Kansas.
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