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Countdown to Civil War

Authored by Matthew Norris

History, Social Studies

6th - 8th Grade

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Countdown to Civil War
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Nat Turner led 70 slaves in Virginia during an uprising that killed __ white men, women, & children

45

55

65

75

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What state nullified the Tariff of 1828 and was later the first to succeed the union?

North Carolina

Virginia

South Carolina

Florida

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the President that was a former U.S.-Mexican War hero, and later died in office?

Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Abraham Lincoln

Stephen Douglas

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What State became a "Free-State" in the Compromise of 1850?

Maine

Missouri

Texas

California

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to a wave of settlers moving to territories and large in crease in violence that was called __________?

Civil War

Bleeding Kansas

Missouri Compromise

Mexican Cession

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Stephen Douglas believed that territories should determine if the are Slave or Free States by voting, which is called: _______?

Missouri Compromise

Free Choice Act

Popular Sovereignty

Fugitive Slave Act

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fredrick Douglas

Sojourner Truth

Abraham Lincoln

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