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Causes of the Civil War

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Secession is:

a)

The act of withdrawing membership from a larger group

b)

Rights of citizens to political and social equality and freedom

c)

The action of ending a system or practice

d)

The different lifestyles, social structures, customs, and political values of the North, and South

2.

Abolition is:

a)

The act of withdrawing membership from a larger group

b)

Rights of citizens to political and social equality and freedom

c)

The action of ending a system or practice

d)

The different lifestyles, social structures, customs, and political values of the North, and South

3.

Sectionalism is:

a)

The act of withdrawing membership from a larger group

b)

Rights of citizens to political and social equality and freedom

c)

The action of ending a system or practice

d)

The different lifestyles, social structures, customs, and political values of the North, and South

4.

Check all that were part of the Compromise of 1850

a)

Fugitive Slave Law

b)

Abolition of Slavery

c)

California admitted as a free state

d)

Annexation of Texas

e)

Slave trade banned in Washington DC

5.

The first two political parties were:

a)

Socialist and Green Party

b)

Democratic and Republican

c)

Federalist and Democratic Republican

d)

Whig and Democratic

6.

True or False: Southern states favored strong state governments over a strong central government.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Most historians agree that this was the main cause of the Civil War:

a)

States Rights

b)

Slavery

c)

Taxes

d)

Westward Expansion

8.

True or false: The north was more agrarian while the south was more industrial.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Nullification is:

a)

The action of ending a system or practice

b)

The removal of Native Americans from the Ohio River Valley

c)

The central government's ability to remove states from the union

d)

The idea that states could declare a federal law "null and void" if they felt it violated the Constitution.

10.

WHY WAS SAM HOUSTON SUPPORTIVE OF THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS TO THE U.S.?


"So far as I am concerned….I am determined upon immediate annexation of Texas to the United States...Mexico might make a cause of war, and inflict violence upon us. It might be time before proper aid from the United States would be available for our defense against this...I have no desire to see war renewed again in Texas, to save Texas from more bloodshed, we must annex ourselves to the United States..."

a)

He wanted the support of the United States to defend Texas from a potential war with Mexico.

b)

He knew it would benefit the economy in Texas

c)

He wanted Texas to declare independence from Mexico

d)

He wanted to use the size and power of Texas to help abolitionists in the United States

11.

WHY WAS HENRY CLAY OPPOSED TO THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS?


“Pennsylvania has to fight against the dishonest annexation of Texas, the extension of representation and slavery to a foreign people brought into our union to weigh down the free state votes of the north in congress, giving a larger voice to slaveholders …to annex Texas would imbalance congress and violate the compromises we have worked so hard to make...”

a)

He didn't want slave states to overpower free states in Congress

b)

He didn't want conflict with Mexico

c)

He was worried the U.S. economy wasn't strong enough to support the addition of Texas

d)

He didn't like Texas

12.

What did the Missouri Compromise do?

a)

Abolished slavery

b)

Drew a line along the southern border of Missouri and declared that all states above the line would be free states, and those below would be slave states.

c)

Created a new amendment that required an even number of anti-slavery and pro-slavery representatives in Congress for

d)

Finalized the annexation of Missouri

13.

People who worked to end slavery were called _____.

a)

abolitionists

b)

southerners

c)

cartridges

d)

blockades

14.
Case brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave wanted his freedom: Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.
a)
Dred Scott Decision
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
d)
Fugitive Slave Act
15.

Popular Sovereignty was the idea that

a)

slavery would be banned in all future states.

b)

the government would decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

c)

the people would vote to decide if their state would have slavery.

d)

slavery would be allowed in every future state.

16.
This was a book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery. 
a)
Harriet's Cabin
b)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
c)
Slavery 
d)
State's Rights
17.
Who wrote the Liberator newspaper and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans?
a)
William Lloyd Garrison
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Fredrick Douglass
d)
Isabel Sojourner Truth
18.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that _______________ would determine slavery in the West.
a)
popular soverneighty
b)
Constitutional amendments
c)
the House of Reps
d)
the Senate
19.
Under the Fugitive Slave Act, it was ILLEGAL for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free
a)
True 
b)
False
20.
The result of the Dred Scott decision was that
a)
slaves are property, not citizens
b)
slaves are free if living in a free state
c)
slavery can be outlawed in the territories
d)
Lincoln became more famous