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Unit 10a Road to the Civil War

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name

Class

Date

How did the South react to Abraham Lincoln’s election as President in 1860?

To save the Union, southern leaders agreed to support the new President.

North Carolina and Virginia seceded, followed by South Carolina.

Seven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.

Southern leaders called for a new presidential election to be held in the spring.

What Supreme Court decision in 1857 divided the nation even more before the Civil War?

Fugitive Slave Case

Compromise of 1850

Dred Scott Decision

John Brown Decision

The abolitionist who led a raid on U.S. Army weapons stored at Harper's Ferry was...

John Brown

Henry Clay

Dred Scott

Robert E. Lee

The Compromise of 1850 helped create which state?

Texas

Florida

California

Pennsylvania

In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe clashes between

proslavery and antislavery groups

Spanish landowners and new American settlers

Chinese and Irish railroad workers

Native American Indians and white settlers

The first fighting of the Civil War occurred at...

Fort Ticonderoga

Fort Sumter

Fort McHenry

Fort Myers

Nullification Crisis of 1832 displayed South Carolina & John C. Calhoun's belief in ....

States' Rights

Civil War

Abolition

Popular Sovereignty

A law that allowed voters in Territories to choose whether to allow slavery.

Election of 1860

Compromise of 1850

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Before the Civil War, the North and South were divided on _______ and this led to people in the regions to be more loyal to their own part of the country known as ____________

Native Americans

Expansion

Tariffs

Reforms

Sectionalism

10.

The Fugitive Slave Act, as a part of the Compromise of 1850, meant that...

any Black person could be kidnapped into slavery

any Black person could start a business

any Black person could move to Canada if they didn't want to be slaves in the U.S.

any Black person could vote

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Unit 10a Road to the Civil War

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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