WorksheetsUnit2 Manifest Destiny, Civil War Beginnings
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 34mins
The belief the United States had the right and duty to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was known as:
Mexican American War
Secession
Manifest Destiny
Kansas Nebraska Act
Which of these was the largest and most constant issue facing the U.S. during the era of Manifest Destiny?
Land Ownership
Farm Acreage
Slavery
Representation in Government
Who was the President that was responsible for the increasing demand in the idea of Manifest Destiny?
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
James Polk
James Monroe
War between 2 countries that resulted in the annexation (addition) of the territory that included Arizona, New Mexico, & California. During the war, Congress debated whether slavery should be allowed in the new territory. The Wilmot Proviso – the attempt by northern congressmen to outlaw slavery in the Mexican Cession.
Kansas Nebraska Act
French and Indian War
Mexican American War
Civil War
Caring only about the interests of your state or region instead of the entire nation.
Nationalism
Patriotism
Sectionalism
Heroism
This word means "Before the War"
Postbellum
Anti- War
Antebellum
Secession
Select all of the statements that define the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state
Maine would be created as a free state.
Mexico was considered a part of American territory
All future states above the 36⁰30’ line would be free, and all future below would be slave.
Select the correct statements that describe the Compromise of 1850.
California would join the Union as a free state.
New Mexico would decide for themselves if they would allow slavery.
A stronger fugitive slave law would be enforced.
The slave trade would be outlawed in Washington D.C.
A Supreme Court decision that stated no African American could be a US citizen. It also stated that slavery could not be prohibited anywhere.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott Case
Brown v. Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
The law that organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and established popular sovereignty.
Mexican American War
Kansas Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Bleeding Kansas
A law that required northerners to help return runaway slaves to their owners.
Popular Sovereignty
Sectionalism
Fugitive Slave Act
Nationalism
The name given to the violence that broke out in Kansas after the failure of popular sovereignty.
Kansas Nebraska Act
Manifest Destiny
Shays' Rebellion
Bleeding Kansas
Elected President in 1860. His main goal was to preserve the Union after southern states seceded.
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Hamilton
Andrew Jackson
The name given to the North
Confederacy
Rebels
Union
Revolutionaries
Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all of the slaves in America?
Yes
No
The name given to the South
Confederacy
Rebels
Union
Revolutionaries
The Dred Scott case determined that slaves
could sue for their freedom with enough proof.
would be freed if they lived in the Northern states.
were property and could not bring a case before the court.
could travel freely with their master's permission.
According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became a free or a slave state?
popular sovereignty
the 36'30" parallel
one would be a slave state, the other a free state
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with
his idea for instituting an income tax.
how to draft more men into the Union Army.
re-admitting Southern states into the Union.
his quest to reconquer only 10% of the South
This system of agriculture developed in the late 19th century, in which a landowner allowed a tenant to use the land in return for a portion of what was produced. It was called
slash and burn farming
share cropping
rent farming
farm to fork farming
The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to
provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.
gain the vote for millions of former slaves.
provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.
get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.
Racial tensions continued in Georgia, even after African Americans were granted citizenship by the Fourteenth Amendment. This was evidenced by their removal from the Georgia General Assembly in 1868. What did it take for this removal to finally be reversed, allowing black citizens to serve in the Georgia Assembly again?
The U.S. Congress penalized white Georgia Assembly members through heavy taxation
White Assembly members had to be physically removed and placed in jail for a year.
Black leaders led protests near the U.S. Congress meetings, demanding federal help.
The U.S. Congress had to pass an act, and sent in military support to help maintain order
The period of rebuilding of The South after The Civil War was known as
The Renaissance
Reconstruction
The Guilded Age
The Industrial Revolution
Which is the BEST description of the southern economy during Reconstruction?
The southern economy was stabilized because of trade relationships with Great Britain and France.
The southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor
The southern economy was transformed from being based on agriculture to being completely dependent on industry and manufacturing.
The southern economy was completely restored by 1866 and was actually more productive and profitable than the pre- Civil War economy.
Which Amendment gave United States citizens of all races the right to vote?
13th
14th
15th
5th
