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Compromise to Conflict

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

MMC: Identify the results of the Missouri Compromise of 1820

a)

popular sovereignty

b)

36,30' Parallel

c)

Maine is admitted as a free state

d)

California is admitted as a slave state

e)

Missouri is admitted as a free state

2.

MMC: Identify the results of the Compromise of 1850

a)

California is admitted as a free state

b)

Maine is admitted as a free state

c)

Texas is admitted as a slave state

d)

Fugitive Slave Act

e)

Slave trade outlawed in DC

3.

MMC: Identify the results of the Dred Scott SCOTUS decision of 1857

a)

If a slave enters a free state/territory, they are legally freed from bondage.

b)

Congress has no authority to decide if a state is free or slave

c)

The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

d)

The Fugitive Slave Act was unconstitutional

e)

Dred Scott remained a slave under Missouri law

4.

MMC: Which conclusions BEST describe why Southern states began to secede from the Union in 1860?

a)

Lincoln was an abolitionist and vowed to end ALL slavery.

b)

Lincoln vowed to leave slavery alone in the South, but refused to let it spread to the West.

c)

Lincoln was not even on the ballot in 10 Southern states

d)

Lincoln's election split the Democratic party into two sides.

5.

Where was the first official battle of the American Civil War?

a)

Fort Sumter, SC

b)

Harper's Ferry, VA

c)

Witchita, KS

d)

Omaha, NB

6.

MMC: Identify the border states.

a)

Delaware

b)

Maryland

c)

Tennessee

d)

Kentucky

e)

Missouri

7.

States that remained slave-states but never seceded from the Union.

a)

Receded states

b)

Border states

c)

Boundary territories

d)

Free territories

8.

Who could claim that, "...the Civil War started in my front yard & ended in my front parlor?"

a)

Wilmer McLean

b)

Robert E Lee

c)

Stephen A Douglas

d)

Abraham Lincoln

9.

What were the results of Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent?

a)

Decreased productivity, increased demand for slavery

b)

Increased productivity, decreased demand for slavery

c)

Increased productivity, increased demand for slavery

d)

Decreased productivity, decreased demand for slavery

10.

Who became the first president of the Provisional Confederate States of America?

a)

Robert E Lee

b)

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Frederick Douglas

11.

What is ironic about the first battle of the Civil War?

a)

It was the bloodiest battle of the war despite being the shortest battle.

b)

There were no casualties in the battle despite the Civil War being the bloodiest battle in American history.

c)

Wilmer McLean killed Union Commander Robert Anderson even though no one else died in the battle.

d)

South Carolinians did not want to go to war, and the bombardment started with accidental canon fire.

12.

All Southerners thought secession was the smartest move in response to the divisions between N & S.

a)

True

b)

False