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WorksheetsSocial Studies #1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
In 1820, the Missouri Compromise included provisions to ban slavery in some federal territories. The Supreme Court overturned those provisions in its Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling in 1857. How did Congress eventually invalidate the Supreme Court’s decision?
It asked state courts to uphold the provisions.
It impeached the justices who made the ruling.
It rejected the ruling with a two-thirds majority vote.
It passed the 13th Amendment to make slavery illegal.
How did the admission of new western states prior to the Civil War contribute to sectionalism?
New western states may be admitted as a slave or free state.
New western states may create governments with strong governors.
New western states may upset the economic balance between the North and South.
New western states may have cultural differences from states in the East.
Use the information in the list to answer the question.
Maine entered the Union as a free state.
Texas entered the Union as a slave state.
Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.
California entered the Union as a free state.
Which battle of the Civil War forced a Confederate retreat from Maryland in September of 1862 and resulted in the highest number of casualties for a single day in American military history?
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
How was the Battle of Vicksburg a turning point in the Civil War?
It shattered the will of the North to fight.
It concentrated Southern forces around New Orleans.
It encouraged Britain to resupply the South.
It isolated the western part of the Confederacy.
Lexington is to the Revolutionary War as which of the following is to the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg
Antietam
Bull Run
How did President Lincoln's assassination affect the nation?
Southern and Northern leaders agreed to end the Civil War.
Southern states were more accepting of Union control during Reconstruction.
The loss of leadership made overcoming the challenges the nation faced more difficult.
Foreign powers used the political instability to try re-establishing colonies in Latin America.
Why is the Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg considered the turning point of the Civil War?
It was the first battle to use machine guns.
It was the last battle in any Union state.
It turned back the Confederate invasion of the North.
It placed the Union in charge of the Mississippi River.
What impact did President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation have on the course of the Civil War?
It made the abolition of slavery a primary goal of the war.
It caused the desegregation of the Union army.
It brought the British into the war on the side of the Confederacy.
It established the first wartime draft.
Which set of words BEST completes the following passage?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska as popular sovereignty territories. Following the passage of this law, fighting broke out in Kansas over _________. The conflict came to be known as _________.
slavery; Bleeding Kansas
suffrage; Votes for Kansas
home rule; Kansas Burning
land claims; Kansas Land Rush
