Events Leading to the Civil War

Events Leading to the Civil War

11th - 12th Grade

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11th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This act established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and allowed residents to decide on whether or not to allow slavery in the newly established territories

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

Wilmot Proviso

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The Compromise of 1850 included five different laws. Which law was beneficial to the North as part of this compromise?

South would have to pay the North for any captured slaves

South promised to reduce the number of slaves

Slavery was outlawed in the Louisiana territory

California was admitted as a free state

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What arsenal did John Brown attack in 1859?

Kansas

Harper's Ferry

Pottawatomie Massacre

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Six weeks after Lincoln was elected the South began talking of withdrawing from the Union. This is called.....

Succeeded

Withdrawing

Secession

Succession

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which focused on the atrocities of slavery is called.....

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Atrocities of Slavery

The Underground Railroad

The Southern Overseer

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Lincoln's election as president lead to this

Southern states seceding from the union 
state's rights
lack of government support

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were beneficial to the south because

 they caused the US to unite and form a strong federal government
they were the beginning of the Temperance movement
they brought about the use of popular sovereignty to make decision about slavery

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