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Causes of the Civil War

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented the cotton gin?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

William Slater

2.

Who was Nat Turner?

a)

A Plantation Owner

b)

A conductor on the Underground Railroad

c)

led slaves uprising

d)

leader of the Union army

3.

What was the Missouri Compromise?

a)

Canceled the Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Allowed slavery North of 36 degree 30 minute line of latitude

c)

Prohibited slavery North of 36 degree 30 minute line of latitude

d)

A purchase of the Louisiana Territory

4.

What are abolitionists?

a)

plantation owners

b)

people trying to spread slavery

c)

people trying to stop slavery

d)

people who write about slavery

5.

Who was Frederick Douglass?

a)

A US Senator

b)

A former slave and abolitionist who learned to read and write

c)

The author of the Liberator

d)

A plantation owner trying to stop the Underground Railroad

6.

Name a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

William Slater

7.

Who traveled successfully on the Underground Railroad 19 times?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

WIlliam Lloyd Garrison

d)

William Slater

8.

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

a)

The Liberator

b)

The Times and Travels of the Underground Railroad

c)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

d)

The Abolitionist Press

9.

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

Prohibited slavery north of 36 degrees 36 minutes

b)

Canceled Missouri Compromise and said setters decide slavery for themselves

c)

An Act joining two territories into one

d)

An Act that abolished slavery for good

10.

Who was Dred Scott?

a)

A slave who sued for freedom

b)

A plantation owner who hunted fugitive slaves

c)

The author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

A conductor on the Underground Railroad

11.

What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates about?

a)

slavery

b)

cotton

c)

the rights to make the cotton gin

d)

finding the Underground Railroad

12.

Who won the Election of 1860?

a)

Stephen A. Douglas

b)

Abraham Lincoln

13.

Which state was the first to secede after the Election of 1860?

a)

Texas

b)

Kansas

c)

Nebraska

d)

South Carolina

14.

What famous quote did Lincoln get from the Bible Mark 3:25?

a)

A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

b)

E Pluribus Unum

c)

From Sea to Shining Sea

d)

Do this in memory of me