Choice Board: Classroom Assessment

What did the Civil War threaten to do?

• Stop slavery in the South

• Break up the United States

• Create a stronger federal government

• To make sure every state in the West became a slave state

What was the backbone of the South's economy?

• Rice

• Slavery

• Corn

• Cotton

Why was there conflict between Northern and Southern states over the new states being created in the West

• The north wanted to stop the spread of slavery but the South thought the US government should decide whether states in the West could or could not be slave states when they join

• The North did not want more new states from the West because they feared they would all be slave states while the South did not care about the West at all

• The South believed it was up to the new states whether they were a free or slave state, not up to the federal government, and the North wanted to stop the spread of slavery

• The South wanted all new states from the West to be slave states and the North wanted all the new states not to have slavery

What did the Missouri Compromise ban?

• Any slavery north of Missouri's southern border

• Any slave state from joining the US

• Missouri from becoming a slave state

• Slavery altogether

What was significant about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Kansas and Nebraska began to fight over slavery

• Kansas seceded from Nebraska

• Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to choose whether to allow slavery, despite the two territories being in a no slavery zone

• Kansas and Nebraska were not allowed to have slavery within their borders, despite being in a slavery zone

Why were Southerners upset in 1860?

• The North attacked the South and started the Civil War

• US President Abraham Lincoln was elected

• The Republican party forced the South to secede

• President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

True or False: Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware were four states that allowed slavery but were apart of the Union

• True

• False

True or False: Fort Sumter marked the start of the Civil War

• True

• False