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WorksheetsChapter 16: Toward Civil War
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 38mins
True or False: The debate over slavery had existed for some time in the United States but was reaching a high point just before the Civil War
True
False
What compromised worked for dealing with the balance between free and slave states until new states and territories were added in the 1840s?
The 3/5ths Compromise
The Missouri Compromise
The Abolitionist Accord
The Northern-Southern Agreement
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
It said that slavery would not be allowed in territories acquired during the Mexican-American War
It allowed slavery in all territories acquired during the Mexican-American War
It allowed territories acquired during the Mexican-American war to choose whether they would be free or slave states if they joined the Union
It prevented territories acquired during the Mexican-American War from becoming states
Which president was known as "Old Rough and Ready," fought in the Seminole Wars and Mexican-American War, and died while in office?
Millard Fillmore
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
True or False: Henry Clay devised the Compromise of 1850 when California tried to join the Union as a free state; new states would decide for themselves if they would be free or slave states and a Fugitive Slave Act would be implemented
True
False
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law which came from the Compromise of 1850 that required runaway slaves in the North to be sent back to their Southern masters
A law which said that slaves who had escaped to the North were to remain free and could not be touched
It closed the borders between Northern and Southern states to prevent slaves from escaping
A law which authorized the Underground Railroad as a legal way for slaves to gain freedom
Who became the 13th President after having been Vice-President to a man who died in office and supported and approved the Compromise of 1850?
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
Millard Fillmore
John TYler
Which president saw abolitionism as a threat to the unity of the country and made sure to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850?
Franklin Pierce
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
James Buchanan
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
It divided the territory of Missouri into two, Kansas and Nebraska, and let each territory choose whether they would be free or slave states
It divided the territory of Missouri into two and said that Kansas would be a free state while Nebraska would be a slave state
It made both Kansas and Nebraska free states
It made both Kansas and Nebraska slave states
True or False: Popular sovereignty is the idea that the people should have the power and decide for themselves what to do
True
False
True or False: John Brown was a white abolitionist who believed that violence would be necessarily in order to fight against slavery
True
False
What was Bleeding Kansas?
A war between the people of Kansas and Nebraska
The British invasion of Kansas
A civil war between citizens of Kansas who fought with each other over the issue of slavery
A time of starving in Kansas when a terrible drought caused many deaths
What were the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, with slavery as a key issue, called?
The Great Debates
The Illinois Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Senate
Who won the election of 1860 and would become America's 16th president, angering the pro-slavery South which threatened to secede?
Stephen Douglas
Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
What does the word "secede" mean?
To join a country
To make peace with someone
To leave a country or nation
To build up an army
After secession and forming a new government of their own, what did the pro-slavery Southern states call themselves?
The United States of America
The Southern Republic
The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy)
The Jeffersonian Republicans
What attack by the South fired off the Civil War and is considered its first battle?
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Sumter
Charleston
West Point
True or False: At first, Abraham Lincoln was not yet intending to completely abolish slavery, but only to prevent it from spreading.
True
False
What Supreme Court case said that a slave who had lived some time in the North was not necessarily free, because slaves were property of their "masters?"
Brooks v. Arizona
Marbury v. Madison
United States v. Florida
Dredd Scott v. Sanford
