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WorksheetsCauses of Civil War
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Compromise needed to preserve balance between slave and free states.
a)
Compromise of 1850
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Kansas Nebraska Act
d)
Dred Scott Decision
2.
Which of the following ruled that it was unconstitutional to place a ban on slavery.
a)
Dred Scott Decision
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Kansas Nebraska Act
d)
Fugitive Slave Act
3.
What event took place in response to the Kansas Nebraska Act?
a)
Dred Scott Rebellion
b)
Bleeding Kansas
c)
John Brown's Raid
4.
Who was the first Republican President?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Millard Fillmore
c)
Franklin Pierce
d)
James Buchanan
5.
what is the biggest cause of the civil war.
a)
france
b)
Canada
c)
Slavery
d)
Money
6.
The Missouri Compromise allowed what state to be a slave state and what state to be a free state?
a)
Missouri/ Maine
b)
Maine/Missouri
c)
Texas/California
d)
California/ D.C
7.
Where is the capital of the Confederacy?
a)
Washington D.C.
b)
Montgomery
c)
Richmond
d)
Charleston
8.
A person fighting against slavery was known as _________.
a)
a plantation owner
b)
a protester
c)
an abolitionist
9.
What crop was grown in the South that increased the need for slave labor?
a)
Corn
b)
Rice
c)
Soybeans
d)
Cotton
10.
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Black Moses
11.
An abolitionists is
a)
Someone who believes in slavery
b)
Someone who does not like slavery, but minds their own business.
c)
Someone who was an activist worked to end slavery
d)
Someone who believes wage slavery in the north was wrong
12.
What happened as a result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a)
slave rebellion in the border states
b)
extension of the Missouri Compromise
c)
violence between pro-slavery & anti-slavery settlers
d)
announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation
13.
Which event led directly to the secession of several Southern states from the Union?
a)
violence in Kansas over the spread of slavery
b)
election of Abraham Lincoln as president
c)
publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
d)
raid by John Brown at Harpers Ferry
14.
In 1861, the Civil War began when
a)
South Carolina seceded from the union
b)
Confederate cannons fired on Fort Sumter
c)
Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
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