Westward Expansion to Start of Civil War Test

Westward Expansion to Start of Civil War Test

8th Grade

46 Qs

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Westward Expansion to Start of Civil War Test

Westward Expansion to Start of Civil War Test

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1.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

30 sec • Ungraded

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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Which part of the Compromise of 1850 shown in the diagram was most likely demanded by southern members of Congress?

the admission of California
a ban of the slave trade in the nation’s capital
the settlement of a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico
the Fugitive Slave Act

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Who was Frederick Douglass?

a former Republican presidential candidate
a member of Congress who opposed the Compromise of 1850
a former slave who escaped and became an abolitionist
a member of John Brown’s band who was not sentenced to death

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Why did Brown mount his raid on Harper’s Ferry?

to free African Americans who had been captured by the U.S. Army
to raise an army of African Americans and lead them in a revolt
to protest the Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas
to demonstrate that he sided with Northerners in the debate over slavery

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of . . . war. The government will not assail [attack] you. . . We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”—Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Which “dissatisfied fellow countrymen” did Lincoln refer to?

Democrats who had supported Stephen A. Douglas
Whigs who had stayed 0ut of the Republican party
southerners whose states had seceded
northerners who urged Lincoln to attack the South

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Southerners attacked Fort Sumter because they believed that

Lincoln was arming the fort.
war was inevitable so it was better to start it on their own terms.
the British were preparing to seize the fort.
the capture of the fort would force Lincoln to resign

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

California’s request to join the Union in 1850 would have

given free states an advantage over slave states
given slave states an advantage over free states.
extended slavery into a territory acquired from Mexico.
restored the balance between free and slave states.

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