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WorksheetsCivil War Unit Test Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 7mins
The Underground Railroad helped slaves to escape to the...
North
East
South
West
The American Colonization Society supported what idea?
Expansion of slavery into the North
Release of slaves after 10 years of enslavement
Migration of free African-Americans to Africa
Re-colonization of America by the British
The ______________ of 1820 established a latitude line that split slave states and free states in Louisiana Territory.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Slave State Compromise
Wilmot Proviso
Which bipartisan party had a platform mainly concerned with restricting the expansion of slavery?
Whig Party
Free-Soil Party
Democratic Party
Know-Nothing Party
Which was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?
Stronger fugitive slave laws
Slaveowners could not separate children from their mothers
California admitted as a free state
New Mexico and Utah open to slavery through popular sovereignty
What would be the most accurate way to describe the outcomes of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Neutral reactions
National unity
Compromise
Violence and division
What did the Supreme Court decide in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Dred Scott was no longer a slave and could go wherever he pleased.
Only free blacks could be U.S. citizens.
African Americans were not and could never be U.S. citizens.
Escaped slaves would be legally free once they made it to the North
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in
The entire United States
States that had seceded from the Union
What was the main reason for the New York City draft riots of 1863?
Soldiers angered over Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Working-class people upset about inequality in the draft system
Merchants frustrated with war-related food shortages
The Battle of _____________ resulted in the North gaining control of the Mississippi River.
Gettysburg
Bull Run
Antietam
Vicksburg
General Robert E. Lee surrendered at which location?
Appomattox Court House, VA
Washington D.C.
Gettysburg, PA
A secret place in Kentucky
First (and last) President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Escaped slave, celebrated writer and orator, and leading abolitionist
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Frederick Douglass
Dred Scott
South Carolina senator and advocate of states rights
Stephen Douglas
John C. Calhoun
Frederick Douglass
Jefferson Davis
Nicknamed "Little Giant," he was an advocate of popular sovereignty and took on Lincoln in many political debates
Henry Clay
Jefferson Davis
John C. Calhoun
Stephen Douglas
