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Events Leading Up to the Civil War Vocab

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Named California as a free state and left other surrounding areas to vote.

a)

The Compromise of 1850

b)

The California Gold Rush

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

d)

Missouri Compromise

2.

sectionalism

a)

The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.

b)

The party that favored popular sovereignty or was pro-slavery.

c)

The belief that a sandwich should be divided into small portions.

d)

Took into account sections of the country with common interests.

3.

Missouri Compromise

a)

Made slavery illegal in the north and kept a balance of power.

b)

Required the Mexican Cession to be a slave free.

c)

Promised to make Missouri a state.

d)

Took over Missouri Compromise and split Nebraska into two popular sovereign states.

4.

A proclamation and document asserted by a Representative stating that slavery would not exist in the newly acquired Mexican Cession.

a)

John Wick Declaration

b)

Wilmot Proviso

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Lincoln Proviso

5.

A failed slave rebellion that led Southerner's to fear more rebellions might come.

a)

John Brown's Raid

b)

Uncle Tom's Rebellion

c)

Jonesy's Bunker Raid

d)

Dred Scott Decision

6.

Revoked (replaced) the Missouri Compromise and split Nebraska into two popular sovereign states.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Nebraska Compromise

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Compromise of 1850

7.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

a)

Lincoln's birthplace in Hodgenville, Kentucky

b)

A best-selling, highly influential novel about the evils of slavery written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

c)

The cabin built from the cherry tree George Washington chopped down.

d)

The location of John Brown's Raid.

8.

A civil war caused by Non-residents who illegally crossed the border and voted to keep slavery in Kansas.

a)

The Confederate States of America

b)

John Brown's Raid

c)

secession

d)

Bleeding Kansas

9.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

a)

Highly publicized debates over slavery between Senators that united the house over the issue of slavery in the nation.

b)

Highly publicized presidential debates between presidential candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.

c)

Highly publicized debates about PS4 vs. Xbox between two gamers that divided the Gaming Nation further on the issue.

d)

Highly publicized debates over slavery between two Senators that divided the house further over the issue of slavery in the nation.

10.

Court case that viewed a once free man as a property rather than a citizen.

a)

Dred Scott Decision

b)

Uncle Tom's Cabin Ruling

c)

Wilmot Proviso

d)

John Brown Decision

11.

The Confederate States of America

a)

Southern states that elected Jefferson Davis as their president.

b)

What the United States was called before the acquisition of the land west of the Mississippi River.

c)

The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.

d)

The party that favored popular sovereignty or was pro-slavery.

12.

The party that favored popular sovereignty or was pro-slavery.

a)

Republican

b)

Democrat

c)

Libertarian

d)

American Independent

13.

This law, that required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate, established a department in the government specifically for the purpose of arresting and returning fugitive slaves.

a)

Fugitive Slave Act

b)

Newton's Third Law

c)

The Second Amendment

d)

Sovereign Citizens Law

14.

Formally leaving the union

a)

Succession

b)

Civil War

c)

Exiting a bank when dressed for prom

d)

Sectionalism

15.

The party that united against the spread of slavery in the west.

a)

The Republican Party

b)

The Democratic Party

c)

The Independent Party

d)

The Libertarian Party