Pre-Civil War

Pre-Civil War

7th - 12th Grade

18 Qs

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Pre-Civil War

Pre-Civil War

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Social Studies, History

7th - 12th Grade

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Created by

Meredith Shipman

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18 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to expose the cruelty of slavery?
Little House on the Prairie
The Liberator
Slavery must be stopped
Uncle Tom's Cabin

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The ______________was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime (illegal) to help runaway slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Criminal Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
California-Maine Act

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which describes the economy of the South?
plantations; dependent on slavery
industry; not dependent on slavery

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is an abolitionist?
Someone who is against slavery
Someone who is for slavery
A confederate soldier
A Union soldier

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What proposition would allow congress to ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War.
Wilmot Proviso
Missouri Compromise
Compromise 1850
Kansas & Nebraska Act

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What law allowed special government officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave?
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
Emancipation Proclomation
Underground Railroad
Kansas Nebraska Act

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A Pre-Civil War political doctrine that held that individual states should decide whether to permit slavery or not.
secession
antebellum
Sojourner Truth
popular sovereignty

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