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WorksheetsCompromise to Conflict
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
MMC: Identify the results of the Missouri Compromise of 1820
popular sovereignty
36,30' Parallel
Maine is admitted as a free state
California is admitted as a slave state
Missouri is admitted as a free state
MMC: Identify the results of the Compromise of 1850
California is admitted as a free state
Maine is admitted as a free state
Texas is admitted as a slave state
Fugitive Slave Act
Slave trade outlawed in DC
MMC: Identify the results of the Dred Scott SCOTUS decision of 1857
If a slave enters a free state/territory, they are legally freed from bondage.
Congress has no authority to decide if a state is free or slave
The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
The Fugitive Slave Act was unconstitutional
Dred Scott remained a slave under Missouri law
MMC: Which conclusions BEST describe why Southern states began to secede from the Union in 1860?
Lincoln was an abolitionist and vowed to end ALL slavery.
Lincoln vowed to leave slavery alone in the South, but refused to let it spread to the West.
Lincoln was not even on the ballot in 10 Southern states
Lincoln's election split the Democratic party into two sides.
Where was the first official battle of the American Civil War?
Fort Sumter, SC
Harper's Ferry, VA
Witchita, KS
Omaha, NB
MMC: Identify the border states.
Delaware
Maryland
Tennessee
Kentucky
Missouri
States that remained slave-states but never seceded from the Union.
Receded states
Border states
Boundary territories
Free territories
Who could claim that, "...the Civil War started in my front yard & ended in my front parlor?"
Wilmer McLean
Robert E Lee
Stephen A Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
What were the results of Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent?
Decreased productivity, increased demand for slavery
Increased productivity, decreased demand for slavery
Increased productivity, increased demand for slavery
Decreased productivity, decreased demand for slavery
Who became the first president of the Provisional Confederate States of America?
Robert E Lee
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglas
What is ironic about the first battle of the Civil War?
It was the bloodiest battle of the war despite being the shortest battle.
There were no casualties in the battle despite the Civil War being the bloodiest battle in American history.
Wilmer McLean killed Union Commander Robert Anderson even though no one else died in the battle.
South Carolinians did not want to go to war, and the bombardment started with accidental canon fire.
All Southerners thought secession was the smartest move in response to the divisions between N & S.
True
False
