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Storm Clouds Over the Nation

Total questions: 84

Worksheet time: 55mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

a)

anteater

b)

Antebellum

c)

Anti- coalition

d)

prewar

2.

Which of these describe the South?

a)

Smaller towns & smaller farms; plantations with slaves

b)

large factories

c)

cotton, sugar cane, rice, tobacco, indigo

d)

Economy based on agriculture

3.

Which of these are characteristics of the North?

a)

Railroads widely used

b)

merchants, factory owners. & small farms

c)

Huge populations with immigrants making up a huge part of their workforce

d)

industry & mostly free blacks

4.

Which of these describe slavery during the Antebellum period?

a)

It involved only those of African descent.

b)

It was the result of buying stolen Africans & selling them.

c)

Evolution

d)

It became a permanent condition for most slaves.

5.

The slaves worked in large groups for a set amount of time each day - usually sunup to sundown.

a)

all together system

b)

task system

c)

gang system

d)

mean system

6.

Most slaves prefered this. the overseer gave them specific tasks. When the task was done, they could do other things, like working for themselves.

a)

task system

b)

factory system

c)

gang system

d)

do your own thing system

7.

A place where African Americans would go if they got sick. Sometimes they would go here to avoid hard labor.

a)

ill houses

b)

hospital

c)

malady house

d)

sick houses

8.

Which of these are ways slaves would avoid their work?

a)

Sometimes they would work more slowly that they were able.

b)

Sometimes they would "misunderstand" what their master wanted them to do.

c)

They would also purposely break the tools so they could not work until they were repaired.

d)

They didn't avoid their work.

9.

hid the slaves by day. At night, they directed them to the next safe location

a)

caboose

b)

conductors

c)

stations

d)

Moses

10.

When this was passed, people of the north would turn slaves in for money. Their destination became Ontario, Canada.

a)

Dred Scott Decision

b)

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

c)

Northwest Ordinance of 1840

d)

Missouri Compromise

11.

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.

a)

Nat Turner

b)

John Jasper

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Frederick Douglass

12.

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.

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Lucretia Mott

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

e)

Dorothea Dix

13.

They were 2 leading abolitionists. They published papers that opposed slavery and called for the immediate abolition of slavery.

a)

William Lloyd Garrison & Horace Greeley

b)

Sam Houston and Stephen Austin

c)

Jedediah Smith and Joe Meek

d)

Joseph Smith and Brigham Young

e)

Dred Scott and Roger Taney

14.

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.

a)

punk rock

b)

worship choruses

c)

hymns

d)

spirituals

15.

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.

a)

Dred Scott

b)

John Jasper

c)

Noah Webster

d)

Frederick Douglass

16.

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet the Spider

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Harriet Hawthorne

17.

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?

a)

Old Al's Farm

b)

Horrors of Slavery

c)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

d)

Huckleberry Finn

18.

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."

a)

Dred Scott Decision

b)

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

19.

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.

a)

Whig Pary

b)

Constitutional Union Pary

c)

Republican Party

d)

Democratic Party

e)

Free Soilers Party

20.

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.

a)

Caning in Congress

b)

Sumner-Brooks Episode

c)

Brooks Caning Episode

d)

Bleeding Kansas

21.

Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property

a)

Dred Scott Decision

b)

Not Fair Decision

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

22.

Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia

a)

John Tan

b)

John Khaki

c)

John Burnt Umber

d)

John Brown

23.

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!

a)

anteaters

b)

wind-eaters

c)

fire-eaters

d)

oxygen-eaters

24.

election in which Abraham Lincoln was voted in causing the session of the South.

a)

election of 1855

b)

election of 1860

c)

election of 1850

d)

election of 1880

25.

He was the Southern Democrats choice for president. They wanted a federal slave code to protect slavery in all the territories.

a)

John Ringer

b)

John C. Breckinridge

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

John Bell

26.

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.

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

John C. Breckinridge

c)

John Ringer

d)

John Bell

27.

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.

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

John C. Breckinridge

c)

John Ringer

d)

John Bell

28.

Who won the 1860 election?

a)

John Bell

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

John C. Breckinridge

29.

Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

a)

South Carolina

b)

Florida

c)

Virginia

d)

Georgia

30.

Which of these were also left the Union after South Carolina did?

a)

Georgia

b)

Florida

c)

Alabama

d)

Missouri

31.

When the South left the Union, what did they call themselves?

a)

Southern Confederate Union States of Southern America

b)

Confederate States of America

c)

Southern States of America

d)

Confederate Union of States

32.

President of the Confederate States of America

a)

Johnny Surrat

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Thomas Jefferson

e)

Frederick Douglass

33.

Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War

a)

Fort Pickney

b)

Fort Bunker Hill

c)

Fort Duquene

d)

Fort Sumter

34.

Who wanted a strong federal government?

a)

North

b)

South

35.

Who wanted a strong state or local government?

a)

North

b)

South

36.

Who said the federal government should fix roads & bridges if they were broken?

a)

North

b)

South

37.

Who wanted a high tariff?

a)

North

b)

South

38.

wage slaves

a)

worked in the North's factories

b)

worked in the South's plantations

39.

term meaning the freeing of slaves

a)

Awakening

b)

Emancipation

c)

Effigy

40.

Most influential group of people in the North

a)

owners of farms

b)

owners of factories and industries

41.
Because of their cultural differences, people in the North and South could not agree on ______________ and ________________ issues.
a)
economic and political
b)
social and political
c)
constitutional and slavery
d)
financial and cultural
42.
Who was not a Federalist?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Alexander Hamilton
c)
John Adams
d)
George Washington
43.
In the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to
a)
allow northern states the power to ban slavery
b)
deny southern states the legal right to own slaves
c)
allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery
d)
overturn previous Supreme Court decisions on slavery
44.
During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they
a)
feared the admission of new slave states
b)
wanted to limit the power of the national government
c)
were concerned with the legal rights of Native American Indians
d)
supported an isolationist foreign policy
45.
The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, contributed to the start of the Civil War by
a)
exposing the dangers of cotton manufacturing
b)
intensifying Northern dislike of slavery
c)
pressuring the president to support emancipation
d)
convincing Congress to ban the importation of slaves
46.
The Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was significant because it
a)
allowed slavery in California
b)
outlawed slavery in the Southern States
c)
upheld the actions of the Underground Railroad
d)
ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories
47.
Which situation was the most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency in1860?
a)
Kansas and Nebraska joined the Union as free states.
b)
A constitutional amendment was adopted to end slavery.
c)
Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.
d)
Several Southern States seceded from the Union.
48.
Who thought Great Britain would stop buying their cottons because of tariffs?
a)
South
b)
North
c)
West
d)
Southwest
49.

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.

a)

Atlanitc Passage

b)

First Passage

c)

Middle Passage

d)

Final Passage

e)

West Passage

50.

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 )

a)

effigy

b)

caricature

c)

monument

d)

paper mache'

e)

All of the above

51.

Abraham Lincoln supported all the views of which man?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

George Washington

c)

Henry Clay

d)

Stephen Douglas

52.
Which item would best complete the list?
a)
Inexperienced military leaders
b)
Lack of Industries
c)
Larger Population
d)
Lack of agricultural land
53.
What was the most important advantage the North had during the Civil War?
a)
unified popular support for the war effort
b)
superior military leadership
c)
economic aid from Great Britain and France
d)
greater human and economic resources
54.
What conclusion can best be supported by the information in the illustration?
a)
The North and the South had equal percentages of their population working for railroads
b)
The North had fewer manufacturing plants than the South
c)
Most of the nation's railroads ran through the South
d)
The North had a major advantage in industrial production when compared to the South
55.
Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860?
a)
The Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
b)
The election of President Abraham LIncoln
c)
The enactment of the Missouri Compromise
d)
The raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry by John Brown
56.
In declaring its intention to secede from the Union in 1860, South Carolina was affirming its position on
a)
civil rights
b)
states' rights
c)
individual rights
d)
unalienable rights
57.

The events above contributed to-

a)

the election of Abraham Lincoln

b)

the start of the American Civil War

c)

the creation of the Missouri Compromise

d)

the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

58.

The Underground Railroad was a success because Harriet Tubman was a leader who was-

a)

skilled at diplomacy

b)

able to compromise

c)

courageous in action

d)

generous with wealth

59.

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-

a)

the admission of free states into the union

b)

the right of states to maintain the practice of slavery

c)

the return of fugitive enslaved people to slaveholders

d)

the extension of citizenship rights to formerly enslaved people

60.

The American Civil War started on April 12, 1861 when-

a)

South Carolina seceded from the Union

b)

Confederate Army soldiers fired on Fort Sumter

c)

Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States

d)

Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States

61.

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

a)

they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

b)

they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

c)

he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

d)

he had a plan to raise taxes

62.

One reason South Carolina chose to leave the Union was because:

a)

the other states refused to trade with South Carolina

b)

people in SC believed their state's rights were being denied

c)

our state was too far away from the state capital

d)

plantation owners were being forced to trade with northern businesses

63.

The firing on Fort Sumter took place because:

a)

The Union wanted to get control of the fort.

b)

The Confederacy wanted to destroy the fort.

c)

The Confederacy was upset that the U.S. still had control of a fort in the South.

d)

The Confederacy wanted to punish the soldiers there.

64.
Which group did not take sides in the Civil War?
a)
American Indians
b)
Whites
c)
African Americans
d)
English
65.

What was the MOST SIGNIFICANT outcome of the Dred Scott Court Case?

a)

Slaves were determined to have "no rights which any white man was bound to respect"

b)

The North scored a major victory in abolishing slavery

c)

Congress could not outlaw slavery anywhere in the US

66.
To withdraw from something, such as a nation
a)
states' rights
b)
secede
c)
abolitionist
d)
amendment
67.

Based on the pictograph, predict which side would win the war because it had more resources.

a)

Union (North)

b)

Confederates (South)

c)

Western Territories

68.
The name given to the northern army. 
a)
Confederates
b)
Americans
c)
Military
d)
Union
69.
The name given to the southern army.
a)
Confederates
b)
Union
c)
Americans
d)
Military
70.
This was the president of the Confederate States.
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Jefferson Davis
71.
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery.
a)
Gone with the Wind
b)
Across the Lines
c)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
d)
Gettysburg
72.
An abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion by attacking an armory at Harpers Ferry, VA.
a)
Fort Sumter
b)
Sherman's March to Sea
c)
state's rights
d)
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
73.
The 1st and only President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
Jefferson Davis
74.
The place where Confederate cannons opened fire thus starting the Civil War
a)
Sherman's March to Sea
b)
Gettysburg
c)
Atlanta Campaign
d)
Fort Sumter
75.
More factories, population, and a better navy were
a)
Confederate advantages
b)
Union advantages
c)
reasons for a Confederate victory
d)
causes of the Battle of Gettysburg
76.
What was a major weakness of the Confederacy?
a)
more factories
b)
smaller populations
c)
larger populations
d)
poor populations
77.
What was the major goal of the Confederacy at the onset of the Civil War?
a)
To overthrow the government and set up a monarchy
b)
To become independent
c)
To spread slavery to the North
d)
To eliminate slavery in the border states
78.
What was Lincoln's main goal throughout the Civil War?
a)
to abolish slavery
b)
to end British control of the Western territories
c)
to make a profit selling war supplies
d)
to preserve the Union
79.

Why was the attack on Fort Sumter significant?

a)

It was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.

b)

The Confederacy surrendered.

c)

The first shots of the Civil War were fired.

d)

General Pickett charged the Union line.

80.

Agricultural economy, superior military leadership, and a large slave population describes

a)

Union (North)

b)

Confederacy (South)

81.
The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.
a)
permitted, prohibited
b)
prohibited, permitted or allowed
c)
sometimes prohibited, never allowed
d)
cheap, expensive
82.
The south was for slavery because
a)
they wanted to be difficult
b)
they liked slaves
c)
slavery was profitable 
d)
this is wrong. 
83.
What is the name for people who wanted to put an end to slavery?
a)
Underground Railroaders 
b)
Suffragists
c)
Bushwackers
d)
Abolitionists
84.

What congressional act introduced the idea of popular sovereinty?

a)

5th Amendment

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Slavery Act of 1850

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

e)

Indian Removal Act