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WorksheetsAntebellum Period
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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Class
Date
1.
What was the first act of sectionalism in the Antebellum Period?
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
d)
Election of 1860
2.
How did the Northerners act towards the Compromise of 1850?
a)
Positively
b)
Negatively
3.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
a)
An act stating that they would use popular sovereignty on the decision of slavery.
b)
A series of violent events. It emerged from a political debate over slavery in Kansas. Occurred to swing the popular vote.
c)
Kansas complaining to Congress on how compromise of 1850 is unfair
d)
Act of kindness bestowed upon by abolitionists to protect Kansas from criticism
4.
Who was John Brown?
a)
Abolitionist who conducted a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 because he was trying to start a slave revolt.
b)
Secessionist who conducted a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 to spread slavery
c)
Unionist who died to trying to unite southern states
d)
Cooperationist who decided secede from the union and fought for the confederate army
5.
What did the Dred Scott case conclude?
a)
Case stated that slavery would be abolished for good
b)
Case stated that slaves were citizens of the United States and had just amount of rights as white people
c)
Case stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States Of America, had no rights, and were property.
d)
Case stated that slavery will never affect the economy of SC
6.
Who won the election of 1860?
a)
John Breckenridge
b)
Stephen Douglass
c)
John Bell
d)
Abraham Lincoln
7.
After Lincoln was elected, what did SC do?
a)
Seceded from the union
b)
Still took part in the union
8.
What was the free soil party?
a)
People who were opposed to the abolishing of slavery out west
b)
People who were opposed to the expansion of slavery out west
9.
Who wanted to make the Transcontinental Railroad?
a)
Stephen Douglass
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Henry Clay
d)
John Brown
10.
What were the two documents SC made in response to the election of 1860?
a)
Ordinance of separation and article of seperation
b)
Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850
c)
Ordinance of union and article of union
d)
Ordinance of secession and article of secession
11.
What were the three main parties during the antebellum period?
a)
Unionists, Cooperationists, and Seccesionists
b)
Whigs, Democrats, Republicans
12.
A person who opposed secession and slavery during the civil war times
a)
Cooperationist
b)
Unionist
c)
Secessionist
13.
This is a group of pro slavery people who want to secede from the union
a)
Secessionists
b)
Unionists
c)
Cooperationists
14.
People who favored seceding from the Union only as a last resort and only if other southern states did so as well
a)
Cooperationists
b)
Unionists
c)
Secessionists
15.
Who was Chief Roger Taney?
a)
one of the people in the supreme court in the dred scott case that said slaves and African americans had no rights
b)
one of the people in the surpreme court in the dred scott case that said slaves have as much rights as whit people
16.
This was when the people would have the power to pass an act or law such as the issue of slavery.
a)
Sectionalism
b)
Nationalism
c)
Popular Sovereignty
d)
Secession
17.
A Whig political leader of the early eighteenth century known for his efforts to keep the United States one nation despite sharp controversy among Americans over slavery. Created the Missouri Compromise. Known as great compromiser
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Stephen Douglass
c)
Henry Clay
d)
John Bell
18.
This was the war against american and the mexicans were the americans won and they got more land from the war. The War was a direct result of Manifest Destiny.
a)
Mexican British War
b)
Civil War
c)
Mexican American War
d)
American Revolution
19.
What was the Gadsden purchase?
a)
This was an agreement between the US and Mexico that resulted in the rest of Arizona and Nevada. It cost the US 10 million dollars and let the US gain 29, 670 acres of land.
b)
This was an treaty between the US and Mexico that ended the Mexican American War.
20.
True or False
Nationalism is the national differences between certain parts of a nation
Nationalism is the national differences between certain parts of a nation
a)
True
b)
False
21.
is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.” Northerners applaud the novel while Southerners argue it is not an accurate description.
a)
Uncle Logan's Cabin
b)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
22.
What was the 36'30 line?
a)
Everything above the 36'30 line was a free state and everything below was a slave state
b)
Everything above the 36'30 line was a slave state and everything below was a free state
23.
the belief that it was the God-given right of the United States to control all of the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
a)
Baptism
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
Catholicism
d)
Judiasm
24.
Which state entered with Texas as a free state?
a)
Oregon
b)
Minnesota
c)
Illinos
d)
Idaho
25.
Which state entered with California as a slave state?
a)
Idaho
b)
Nevada
c)
Texas
d)
North Dakota
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