WorksheetsCh. 16 Toward Civil War
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What state was added as part of the Compromise of 1850?
a)
California
b)
Texas
c)
Missouri
d)
Kansas
2.
Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case?
a)
Roger Taney
b)
John Crittenden
c)
John Marshall
d)
Stephen A. Douglas
3.
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
John Bell
d)
Preston Brooks
4.
Which party was first to take a stance on slavery?
a)
Free Soil
b)
Democrat
c)
Whig
d)
Republican
5.
The first state to secede was
a)
South Carolina
b)
Virginia
c)
Alabama
d)
Mississippi
6.
A last-ditch effort to save the Union was the
a)
Crittenden Plan
b)
Lincoln Compromise
c)
Wilmot Proviso
d)
resupply of Ft. Sumter
7.
The idea that only Congress should be allowed to ban slavery in the territories
a)
Freeport Doctrine
b)
Monroe Doctrine
c)
Dred Scott decision
d)
secession
8.
Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the
a)
Fugitive Slave Act
b)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
c)
Democrat Party
d)
Election of 1852
9.
What led to the creation of the Republican Party?
a)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
"The Caning"
d)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
10.
Who won the Election of 1856 because he was the most "unobjectionable?
a)
Franklin Pierce
b)
James Buchanan
c)
John C. Fremont
d)
Zachary Taylor
11.
How did Lincoln feel about the raid of Harper's Ferry?
a)
violence is never justified
b)
he approved of what happened
c)
he didn't really care about it
d)
he thought it was poorly organized
12.
The result of the Dred Scott decision was that
a)
slaves are property, not citizens
b)
slaves are free if living in a free state
c)
slavery can be outlawed in the territories
d)
Lincoln became more famous
13.
Who was the author of the Compromise of 1850?
a)
Henry Clay
b)
Stephen A. Douglas
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
John C. Calhoun
14.
Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a)
Stephen A. Douglas
b)
John Brown
c)
Charles Sumner
d)
James Buchanan
15.
Who raided Harper's Ferry?
a)
John Brown
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Daniel Webster
16.
What was the immediate cause of the Civil War?
a)
attack of Ft. Sumter
b)
Lincoln's election
c)
Bleeding Kansas
d)
the raid at Harper's Ferry
17.
popular sovereignty means
a)
let the people decide
b)
pro slavery
c)
everyone should vote
d)
to die for a cause
18.
Which statement is NOT true about Lincoln?
a)
he agreed with the Dred Scott decision
b)
he thought slavery should not spread
c)
he often talked about the dangers of slavery
d)
he thought slavery was allowed by the Constitution
19.
A failed attempt to prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession
a)
Wilmot Proviso
b)
popular sovereignty
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Compromise of 1820
20.
Who won the election of 1852 because he supported the Compromise of 1850?
a)
Franklin Pierce
b)
James Buchanan
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Zachary Taylor
21.
Where was the Pottawatomie Massacre and who was involved?
a)
John Brown in Kansas
b)
Stephen A. Douglas in Virginia
c)
border ruffians in Missouri
d)
Dred Scott in Maryland
22.
In his debates with Douglas, what did Lincoln accuse the democrats of?
a)
wanting to spread slavery in the West
b)
wanting to start a war
c)
wanting to ban slavery in the territories
d)
wanting to give the Supreme Court too much power
23.
Who said "the nation cannot survive half slave and half free"?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Stephen A. Douglas
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
24.
What event led to secession?
a)
Lincoln's election as president
b)
The Dred Scott Decision
c)
the attack of Ft. Sumter
d)
the raid at Harper's Ferry
25.
The "caning" showed
a)
how much hatred existed between North and South over slavery
b)
that slavery must be allowed to spread west
c)
that Lincoln's election was a mistake
d)
the effects of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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