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Civil War Causes

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

Based on the map, how did the Missouri Compromise limit slavery?

a)

No more slave states would be permitted to join the Union.

b)

Slavery would gradually be prohibited everywhere in the US

c)

Slavery would be confined to areas south of the 36°30' N

d)

There would be many more slave states than free states.

2.

Which act banned slavery north of the 36'30 latitude?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Three Fifths Compromise

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

3.

What compromise did Congress make to allow California to enter the Union as a free state?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Three Fifths Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Missouri Compromise

4.

The Compromise of 1850 included which act that imposed strict laws on enslaved people?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Fugitive Slave Act

5.

Which agreements did Congress make to settle disputes over the spread of slavery in the West?

a)

Three-Fifths Compromise, Great Compromise, New Jersey Plan

b)

Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty, Treaty of Paris

c)

Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Fugitive Slave Act, Slave Codes, 13th Amendment

6.

Abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they

a)

feared the admission of new slave states

b)

were concerned with the legal rights of Native Americans

c)

wanted to limit the power of the national government

d)

supported an isolationist foreign party supported an isolationist foreign party

7.

Which statement about the principle of popular sovereignty is correct

a)

it was a key principle of the Missouri Compromise

b)

voters in territories should decide whether to allow slavery

c)

Congress should abolish slavery in all states

d)

it established Kansas as a slave state

8.

The social movement to abolish, or end, slavery was known as

a)

the abolitionist movement

b)

the suffrage movement

c)

the state's rights movement

d)

the Federalist movement

9.

What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

a)

Dred Scott was set free since he lived in a free state

b)

Dred Scott was property and not a citizen

c)

Dred Scott's owners were guilty of kidnapping and arrested

d)

Dred Scott's owners had to pay him for his work

10.

Which Supreme Court case said that slaves had no rights & were property in all parts of the US?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

McCulloch v. Maryland

c)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

d)

Worcester v. Georgia

11.

___________________ is rivalry based on special interests of different areas of the country?

a)

nationalism

b)

federalism

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

sectionalism