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Civil War Unit Test Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Underground Railroad helped slaves to escape to the...

a)

North

b)

East

c)

South

d)

West

2.

The American Colonization Society supported what idea?

a)

Expansion of slavery into the North

b)

Release of slaves after 10 years of enslavement

c)

Migration of free African-Americans to Africa

d)

Re-colonization of America by the British

3.

The ______________ of 1820 established a latitude line that split slave states and free states in Louisiana Territory.

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Slave State Compromise

d)

Wilmot Proviso

4.

Which bipartisan party had a platform mainly concerned with restricting the expansion of slavery?

a)

Whig Party

b)

Free-Soil Party

c)

Democratic Party

d)

Know-Nothing Party

5.

Which was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

a)

Stronger fugitive slave laws

b)

Slaveowners could not separate children from their mothers

c)

California admitted as a free state

d)

New Mexico and Utah open to slavery through popular sovereignty

6.

What would be the most accurate way to describe the outcomes of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

Neutral reactions

b)

National unity

c)

Compromise

d)

Violence and division

7.

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

a)

Dred Scott was no longer a slave and could go wherever he pleased.

b)

Only free blacks could be U.S. citizens.

c)

African Americans were not and could never be U.S. citizens.

d)

Escaped slaves would be legally free once they made it to the North

8.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in

a)

The entire United States

b)

States that had seceded from the Union

9.

What was the main reason for the New York City draft riots of 1863?

a)

Soldiers angered over Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

b)

Working-class people upset about inequality in the draft system

c)

Merchants frustrated with war-related food shortages

10.

The Battle of _____________ resulted in the North gaining control of the Mississippi River.

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Bull Run

c)

Antietam

d)

Vicksburg

11.

General Robert E. Lee surrendered at which location?

a)

Appomattox Court House, VA

b)

Washington D.C.

c)

Gettysburg, PA

d)

A secret place in Kentucky

12.

First (and last) President of the Confederate States of America

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

John C. Calhoun

d)

Henry Clay

13.

Escaped slave, celebrated writer and orator, and leading abolitionist

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Stephen Douglas

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Dred Scott

14.

South Carolina senator and advocate of states rights

a)

Stephen Douglas

b)

John C. Calhoun

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Jefferson Davis

15.

Nicknamed "Little Giant," he was an advocate of popular sovereignty and took on Lincoln in many political debates

a)

Henry Clay

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

John C. Calhoun

d)

Stephen Douglas