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WorksheetsDividing Nation Ch.21/Causes Project
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
Between 1820 and 1860, Americans were divided over
a)
A. the Tallmadge Amendment.
b)
B. admitting Alabama as a slave state
c)
C. the issue of slavery.
d)
D. the process of adding new states to the Union
2.
What did the Missouri Compromise authorize the people of the Missouri territory to do?
a)
A. vote on becoming a state
b)
B. form a state government
c)
C. vote on allowing slavery
d)
D. decide the size of their state
3.
Which of the following was a provision of the Missouri Compromise?
a)
A. Missouri could join the Union as a slave state.
b)
B. Missouri could join the Union as a free state.
c)
C. Maine could join the Union as a slave state.
d)
D. It banned attacks against slavery in newspapers.
4.
Why did abolitionists protest the "gag rule" of 1836?
a)
A. It prevented abolitionists from speaking against slavery.
b)
B. It silenced congressional debate about slavery.
c)
C. It attempted to ban abolitionist ideas in Missouri.
d)
D. It banned attacks against slavery in newspapers.
5.
Congress passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. What happened in 1849 that threatened to upset the balance between slave states and free states?
a)
A. California applied for admission to the Union as a free state
b)
B. The people of Missouri voted to secede from the United States.
c)
Congress approved the Wilmot Proviso banning slavery in the Mexican Cession.
d)
D. Southerners succeeded in opening all of the Mexican Cession to slavery.
6.
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed as part of what law.
a)
Compromise of 1850.
b)
Compromise of 1820.
c)
The Great Compromise.
d)
Compromise Tariff of 1833.
7.
The main issue of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was
a)
A. John Brown's raid.
b)
B. the future of slavery.
c)
C. who would be the best senator from Illinois.
d)
D. who would be the best president. in the 1860 election
8.
During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's view of slavery was that
a)
A. it was a legal issue.
b)
B. the nation could continue as half-free and half-slave.
c)
C. slavery would cause the Union to dissolve.
d)
D. it was a moral issue.
9.
What year was the Louisiana Purchase?
a)
1803
b)
1832
c)
1850
d)
1860
10.
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
a)
Albert Edison
b)
Robert Fulton
c)
John McCormick
d)
Eli Whitney
11.
Who was mostly responsible for the Indian Removal Act?
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
Dred Scott
d)
Eli Whitney
12.
Who was mostly responsible for the American System?
a)
Horace Mann
b)
John C.Calhoun
c)
Henry Clay
d)
Nat Turner
13.
In the Compromise of 1850 California was admitted as a free state and these two states could decide if they wanted to have slavery-
a)
Texas and Missouri
b)
Kansas and Nebraska
c)
West Virginia and Washington D.C.
d)
New Mexico and Utah
14.
The Dred Scott supreme court decision said the following-
a)
Slaves could be treated unfairly by their masters.
b)
Slaves could not be taken out of Pennsylvania.
c)
African Americans ere not citizens and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
d)
Dred Scott gained freedom by living in a free state.
15.
Anti-Slave protesters were called the...
a)
Temperance Society
b)
Abolitionists.
c)
Border Ruffians.
d)
Transcendentalists.
16.
Who won the election of 1860?
a)
John Breckinridge Southern -Democrat.
b)
Abraham Lincoln -Republican.
c)
John Bell -Constitutional Union.
d)
Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democratic
17.
Which of the following reformed Education.
a)
Denmark Vesey.
b)
David Walker.
c)
Henry L. Pinckney.
d)
Horace Mann.
18.
Which of the following wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin ?
a)
David Wilmot.
b)
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
c)
John Quincy Adams and Luis Onis.
d)
James Buchanan.
19.
The Ostend Manifesto was concerned which country?
a)
Canada
b)
Mexico
c)
Cuba
d)
Belgium
20.
Name given to people in the Women's Movement.
a)
Temperance Society.
b)
Abolitionist.
c)
Suffrgists.
d)
transcendentalist.
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