WorksheetsChapter 1 Lesson 1: A Decade of Crisis
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What was the Antebellum Period?
A. A time of civil war.
B. A period of time before the Civil War.
What did the abolitionists want to achieve?
A. They wanted to help slavery spread to all states.
B. They wanted to end slavery because they believed it was wrong.
Which of these abolitionists was a former slave?
A. William Lloyd Garrison
B. Sojourner Truth
What was the main difference between the economies of the North and the South in the 1850s?
A. There were more factories and industry in the South.
B. There were more factories and industry in the North.
Why was the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin so popular in the United States?
A. It was written by Frederick Douglass about how awful slavery was.
B. It opened the eyes of many Americans to the true horror of slavery.
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
A. It allowed the people in those territories to decide whether or not to have slavery.
B. It forced people to have slaves in those territories.
Who was John Brown?
A. An abolitionist from New York who attacked a pro-slavery town in Kansas.
B. A congressman from South Carolina who attacked Senator Charles Sumner.
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Dred Scott Decision?
A. The phrase “all men are created equal” did not apply to black people.
B. Dred Scott became a free man because he was in Illinois.
Who won the Election of 1860 even though he did not get a single vote in the South?
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. John Bell
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
A. South Carolina
B. Tennessee
Who was elected president of the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy)?
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Jefferson Davis
True or False?
The Liberator was a newspaper created by William Lloyd Garrison to help support slavery.
True
False
She wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which described the horrors of slavery.
A. Sojourner Truth
B. Harriet Beecher Stowe
He and his sons attacked a pro-slavery town in Kansas.
A. John Brown
B. Frederick Douglass
She was a former slave who gave the speech “Ain’t I A Woman?”
Sojourner Truth
Sarah Grimke
