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WorksheetsStorm Clouds Over the Nation
Total questions: 84
Worksheet time: 55mins
Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
anteater
Antebellum
Anti- coalition
prewar
Which of these describe the South?
Smaller towns & smaller farms; plantations with slaves
large factories
cotton, sugar cane, rice, tobacco, indigo
Economy based on agriculture
Which of these are characteristics of the North?
Railroads widely used
merchants, factory owners. & small farms
Huge populations with immigrants making up a huge part of their workforce
industry & mostly free blacks
Which of these describe slavery during the Antebellum period?
It involved only those of African descent.
It was the result of buying stolen Africans & selling them.
Evolution
It became a permanent condition for most slaves.
The slaves worked in large groups for a set amount of time each day - usually sunup to sundown.
all together system
task system
gang system
mean system
Most slaves prefered this. the overseer gave them specific tasks. When the task was done, they could do other things, like working for themselves.
task system
factory system
gang system
do your own thing system
A place where African Americans would go if they got sick. Sometimes they would go here to avoid hard labor.
ill houses
hospital
malady house
sick houses
Which of these are ways slaves would avoid their work?
Sometimes they would work more slowly that they were able.
Sometimes they would "misunderstand" what their master wanted them to do.
They would also purposely break the tools so they could not work until they were repaired.
They didn't avoid their work.
hid the slaves by day. At night, they directed them to the next safe location
caboose
conductors
stations
Moses
When this was passed, people of the north would turn slaves in for money. Their destination became Ontario, Canada.
Dred Scott Decision
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Northwest Ordinance of 1840
Missouri Compromise
He was the leading black abolitionist, escaped from slavery in 1838. He was a talented speaker who lectured against slavery in the North. He wrote a book, and in the book he named his master. He fled to England, and some people bought his freedom.
Nat Turner
John Jasper
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Her master abused her & she escaped slavery in 1849. With help from her Quaker friends, she returned to slave territory nearly 20 times to help other slaves escape. She led about 300 blacks along the Underground Railroad. She even helped her own parents escape.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Dorothea Dix
They were 2 leading abolitionists. They published papers that opposed slavery and called for the immediate abolition of slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison & Horace Greeley
Sam Houston and Stephen Austin
Jedediah Smith and Joe Meek
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
Dred Scott and Roger Taney
Slave themselves opposed slavery. Thousands of them tried to escape. They revealed how they felt about their condition is songs called this. It also revealed the way to go to freedom in some of the songs.
punk rock
worship choruses
hymns
spirituals
He spent the first 50 years of his life as a slave. Became a great preacher. He could only preach with permission of his master. He still gained a great following by doing funerals of African Americans and by preaching twice a month in Virginia. He gained his freedom & started the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church & built the congregation to 2000 members.
Dred Scott
John Jasper
Noah Webster
Frederick Douglass
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet the Spider
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Hawthorne
When the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, Harriet Beecher Stowe vowed to bring what was happening to slave families & runaways to public attention. So she wrote a book. The point of the book was to show that the system of slavery was inescapably unjust. Made Southerners mad; stirred opposition to slavery. What was the book called?
Old Al's Farm
Horrors of Slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Huckleberry Finn
Kansas & Nebraska wanted to become states. Slave or free? Stephen Douglass said use popular sovereignty to decide the issue. It got so bad in Kansas that it earned the nickname "Bleeding Kansas."
Dred Scott Decision
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It was formed by antislavery groups. It grew very quickly. They get Congressmen elected in the first year & had a presidential candidate 2 years later, Fremont. He was defeated by James Buchanan.
Whig Pary
Constitutional Union Pary
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Free Soilers Party
Charles Sumner made a speech denouncing all the things happening in Kansas, and then Preston Brooks confronted him, and then Brooks started hitting Sumner with a cane until Sumner was all bloody. He did not return for 3 years because of the beating.
Caning in Congress
Sumner-Brooks Episode
Brooks Caning Episode
Bleeding Kansas
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property
Dred Scott Decision
Not Fair Decision
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
John Tan
John Khaki
John Burnt Umber
John Brown
Extremist pro-slavery politicians from the South who urged the separation of southern states into a new nation, which became known as the Confederate States of America. Anti-Republican!
anteaters
wind-eaters
fire-eaters
oxygen-eaters
election in which Abraham Lincoln was voted in causing the session of the South.
election of 1855
election of 1860
election of 1850
election of 1880
He was the Southern Democrats choice for president. They wanted a federal slave code to protect slavery in all the territories.
John Ringer
John C. Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln
John Bell
He was a former Whig. He was the Republican choice. He declared slavery a moral evil. "All men are created equal" applied all men. Really all men. He won the 1860 election.
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Breckinridge
John Ringer
John Bell
Former Whigs chose this man. He ran under the Constitutional Union Party. He wanted Southern states to stay in the Union. He thought slavery could be saved without the states having to secede.
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Breckinridge
John Ringer
John Bell
Who won the 1860 election?
John Bell
Jimmy Carter
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Breckinridge
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Florida
Virginia
Georgia
Which of these were also left the Union after South Carolina did?
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Missouri
When the South left the Union, what did they call themselves?
Southern Confederate Union States of Southern America
Confederate States of America
Southern States of America
Confederate Union of States
President of the Confederate States of America
Johnny Surrat
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
Frederick Douglass
Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
Fort Pickney
Fort Bunker Hill
Fort Duquene
Fort Sumter
Who wanted a strong federal government?
North
South
Who wanted a strong state or local government?
North
South
Who said the federal government should fix roads & bridges if they were broken?
North
South
Who wanted a high tariff?
North
South
wage slaves
worked in the North's factories
worked in the South's plantations
term meaning the freeing of slaves
Awakening
Emancipation
Effigy
Most influential group of people in the North
owners of farms
owners of factories and industries
What term refers to the period when kidnapped Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies. ... There could be up to more than six hundred enslaved people on each ship.
Atlanitc Passage
First Passage
Middle Passage
Final Passage
West Passage
Portrait of a person, especially as a monument or architectural decoration. A crude representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public (often in the phrases burn or hang )
effigy
caricature
monument
paper mache'
All of the above
Abraham Lincoln supported all the views of which man?
Jefferson Davis
George Washington
Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
The events above contributed to-
the election of Abraham Lincoln
the start of the American Civil War
the creation of the Missouri Compromise
the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Underground Railroad was a success because Harriet Tubman was a leader who was-
skilled at diplomacy
able to compromise
courageous in action
generous with wealth
In 1861 a civil war began between the northern and southern states of the United States. A major reason for this conflict was a disagreement about-
the admission of free states into the union
the right of states to maintain the practice of slavery
the return of fugitive enslaved people to slaveholders
the extension of citizenship rights to formerly enslaved people
The American Civil War started on April 12, 1861 when-
South Carolina seceded from the Union
Confederate Army soldiers fired on Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States
Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States
Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:
they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life
they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery
he wanted northern states to secede from the Union
he had a plan to raise taxes
One reason South Carolina chose to leave the Union was because:
the other states refused to trade with South Carolina
people in SC believed their state's rights were being denied
our state was too far away from the state capital
plantation owners were being forced to trade with northern businesses
The firing on Fort Sumter took place because:
The Union wanted to get control of the fort.
The Confederacy wanted to destroy the fort.
The Confederacy was upset that the U.S. still had control of a fort in the South.
The Confederacy wanted to punish the soldiers there.
What was the MOST SIGNIFICANT outcome of the Dred Scott Court Case?
Slaves were determined to have "no rights which any white man was bound to respect"
The North scored a major victory in abolishing slavery
Congress could not outlaw slavery anywhere in the US
Based on the pictograph, predict which side would win the war because it had more resources.
Union (North)
Confederates (South)
Western Territories
Why was the attack on Fort Sumter significant?
It was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
The Confederacy surrendered.
The first shots of the Civil War were fired.
General Pickett charged the Union line.
Agricultural economy, superior military leadership, and a large slave population describes
Union (North)
Confederacy (South)
What congressional act introduced the idea of popular sovereinty?
5th Amendment
Missouri Compromise
Slavery Act of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Indian Removal Act
