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WorksheetsChapter 15 Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of these was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?
a)
Fugitive Slave Act
b)
California became a free state
c)
Popular Sovereignty in Kansas
d)
No slave trade in Washington D.C.
2.
Who won the Illinois Senate race in 1858?
a)
Stephen Douglas
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Henry Clay
d)
James Buchanan
3.
What was NOT part of the ruling in the Dred Scott case?
a)
Scott was a slave and couldn't sue in court
b)
Slave couldn't be taken away bc of Due Process
c)
Scott could get his freedom if he lived in Illinois
d)
Congress couldn't regulate slavery in the territories
4.
The ruling in the Dred Scott court case was based on the principles in which amendment?
a)
2nd
b)
3rd
c)
4th
d)
5th
5.
The idea that a person shows loyalty to a particular region is known as...
a)
sectionalism
b)
popular sovereignty
c)
states rights
d)
secession
6.
After the election of 1860, the southern states formed their own nation called...
a)
The Union States
b)
The Southern States
c)
The Confederate States of America
d)
The Slavery States
7.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people to vote to be slave or non-slave. This is called...
a)
sectionalism
b)
states rights
c)
human rights
d)
popular sovereignty
8.
The main reason that the southern states gave for seceding from the Union was...
a)
States Rights
b)
Popular Sovereignty
c)
Fugitive Slaves
d)
Abraham Lincoln
9.
Which of these did not make up the new Republican Party?
a)
Free-soilers
b)
Anti-slavery Democrats
c)
Libertarians
d)
Whigs
10.
True or False - ALL slave holding states seceded from the Union.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
Which states was the first to secede?
a)
South Carolina
b)
North Carolina
c)
Virginia
d)
Georgia
12.
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at...
a)
Fort McHenry
b)
Fort Clatsop
c)
Fort Sumter
d)
Fort Laramie
13.
Who led a raid on the arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859?
a)
John Smith
b)
John Brown
c)
Steven Douglas
d)
Steven Brown
14.
Who was elected president in 1856?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Steven Douglas
c)
Roger B. Taney
d)
James Buchanan
15.
This compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine became a free state.
a)
Compromise of 1850
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Clay's Compromise
d)
Great Compromise
16.
The Chief Justic of the Supreme Court that ruled in the Dred Scott case
a)
Roger B. Taney
b)
Stephen Douglas
c)
John Brown
d)
James Buchanan
17.
Lincoln gained a national reputation when he ran for Senate in the state of...
a)
Kentucky
b)
Illinois
c)
Pennsylvania
d)
South Carolina
18.
Won the presidental election of 1860.
a)
Henry Clay
b)
James Buchanan
c)
Stephen Douglas
d)
Abraham Lincon
19.
The Great Compromiser
a)
John Brown
b)
Stephen Douglas
c)
Henry Clay
d)
Abraham Lincoln
20.
Main topic of the debates between Lincoln and Douglas.
a)
slavery
b)
expansion
c)
war
d)
economy
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