WorksheetsKS History Chapter 4
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A person who wants to bring about the immediate end to slavery.
a)
border ruffian
b)
abolitionist
c)
bushwhacker
d)
antislavery
2.
__________ means you're opposed to the practice of slavery.
a)
Materialism
b)
Antislavery
c)
Discrimination
d)
Adaptation
3.
Missouri settlers who crossed into Kansas in order to illegally vote for slavery were called __________.
a)
jayhawkers
b)
bushwhacker
c)
border ruffian
d)
abolitionists
4.
Missouri settlers who raided antislavery settlements in Kansas were called______________.
a)
jayhawkers
b)
bushwhackers
c)
border ruffians
d)
abolitionists
5.
Stephen A. Douglas was an ____________. He wanted to expand the United States' boundaries by building a transcontinental railroad.
a)
entrepreneur
b)
expansionist
c)
free-stater
d)
isolationist
6.
A _______ was a settler who believed Kansas should not allow slavery.
a)
abolitionist
b)
border ruffian
c)
bushwhacker
d)
free-stater
7.
After working for 5-7 years, _______________ earned their freedom.
a)
slaves
b)
jayhawkers
c)
indentured servants
d)
tenants
8.
People from Kansas who crossed the border to make raids on Missouri were known as ___________.
a)
jayhawkers
b)
bushwhackers
c)
border ruffians
d)
abolitionists
9.
A ______ is someone who chooses death versus changing his or her beliefs.
a)
speculator
b)
plaintiff
c)
martyr
d)
expansionist
10.
Giving people the right to choose versus the government making the choice is known as ________________.
a)
eminent domain
b)
manifest destiny
c)
sovereign right
d)
popular sovereignty
11.
People who were supportive of slavery were _____________
a)
pro slavery
b)
antislavery
c)
only from the South.
d)
slaves
12.
With the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Congress ______ the Missouri Compromise.
a)
revoted
b)
repealed
c)
reapplied
d)
ratified
13.
You lay ______ when using an army to surround and blockade a city in order to capture it.
a)
suffrage
b)
quarantine
c)
guerrilla
d)
siege
14.
Wealthy Southern landowners wanted to keep their workers in __________ for life (never to be free).
a)
servitude
b)
pro slavery
c)
indentured servant
d)
prohibition
15.
A ________ is someone who invests money into something hoping to make a profit.
a)
free-stater
b)
speculator
c)
underdog
d)
expansionist
16.
Stephen A. Douglas wanted to build a ___________ railroad (spanning across the United States).
a)
transcontinental
b)
unconstitutional
c)
progressive
d)
integrated
17.
John Brown was accused of ______ (doing something illegal against one's own country).
a)
transcribe
b)
vocation
c)
treason
d)
pro slavery
18.
Not in accord (or agreement) with the principles set forth in the constitution of a nation
a)
unconstitutional
b)
transcontinental
c)
segregation
d)
emancipation
19.
Violence over slavery issues is why we refer to Kansas territory as "Bleeding Kansas".
a)
FALSE
b)
TRUE
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