WorksheetsEvents That Led to the Civil War
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 13mins
This event allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state.
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Missouri Compromise of 1820
This Act required people of the North to return slaves to the South.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
New Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Nat Turner Act
True or False: In the Dred Scott Case, the Supreme Court ruled that no black man could be considered a citizen of the United States.
True
False
This Act proposed admitting Kansas and Nebraska as states, giving them popular sovereignty.
Nebraska Kansas Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Nebraska Ohio Act
Which DID NOT happen because of the election of 1860?
President Lincoln sent aid to Union forts in the South.
South Carolina and other states formed their own government.
Southerners became fearful that their way of living would change.
President Lincoln decided all states should allow slavery.
Which Southern state seceded first?
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Alabama
What happened in John's Rebellion?
White slave owners rebelled against the slaves.
He organized a raid of federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry to arm slaves and help them rebel.
Stricter slave laws were enforced.
Slaves were told they could be free.
Which of the following placed stricter punishment for people who interfered with the capture of slave states?
New Fugitive Slave Act
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dred Scott Case
John Brown's Rebellion
Which of the following occurred because of the Election of 1860?
Lincoln suggested not to abolish slavery in states where it already existed.
Southerners became discouraged and felt their way of life was going to change.
Southern States began to secede and form their own government.
All of the above.
True or False: The Northern states felt that slavery was immoral, or wrong.
True
False
True or False: The Southern states needed slaves to help with their economy.
True
False
Which of the following occurred because of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
It violated the ideas of the Missouri Compromise.
It caused more people to be more passionate about the way they felt towards slavery.
It ended slavery in all states.
Both A and B.
What happened during Nat Turner's Rebellion? Select all that apply.
New laws were created to keep slaves from gathering.
The North rebelled against the South.
New laws were created to keep slaves from receiving an education.
Slave owners became fearful.
States were no longer allowed to have slaves.
