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Road to the Civil War (Part 1)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act revoke (get rid of) the Missouri Compromise?

a)

It did not allow KS and NE to vote on slavery, so there was a possibility of slavery north of the 36 30 line.

b)

It allowed KS and NE to vote on slavery, so there was a possibility of slavery north of the 36 30 line.

c)

It turned Missouri into a free state

d)

It said North of the 36'30 line would now be slave

2.

What was the reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

Violence erupted in Kansas

b)

North was happy with the compromise

c)

Peaceful vote in Kansas and Nebraska

3.

What was the main issue that divided the North and South during the 1800's?

4 lines
4.

What escaped slave returned to help others escape?

a)

Harriet Beecher-Stowe

b)

Dred Scott

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Tubman

5.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

Underground railroads (early subways)

b)

Secret underground tunnels

c)

Network of routes and safe houses to help slaves escape

6.

What was the Abolitionist movement?

a)

People who didn't care about slavery

b)

People who wanted to end slavery

c)

People who wanted to spread slavery out West

7.

What escaped slave found freedom in the North and eventually wrote his own autobiography?

a)

Harriet Beecher-Stowe

b)

Dred Scott

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Tubman

8.

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Harriet Beecher-Stowe

b)

Dred Scott

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Tubman

9.

What is popular sovereignty?

a)

A dictatorship

b)

People vote and decide the issue for themselves

c)

A monarchy

d)

People get to carry out justice for themselves

10.

Which law forced both Northerners and Southerners to return escaped slaves back to their owners?

a)

Missouri Compromise of 1820

b)

Fugitive Slave Law

c)

Missouri Compromise of 1850

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

11.

Which of the following does this describe: California would be admitted as a free state & New Mexico and Utah would vote on whether to be slave or not.

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Missouri Compromise 1820

c)

Compromise of 1850

12.

What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Getting land out west

b)

Depicting the evils of slavery

c)

Reasons slavery should expand out West

13.

9) The Missouri Compromise allowed _______ to come in as a free state, and ________ to come in as a slave state.

a)

Missouri, Maine

b)

Michigan, Missouri

c)

Maine, Missouri

d)

Missouri, Michigab

14.

Which man was kidnapped from the North and sold illegally into slavery for 12 years?

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Solomon Northrup

d)

Nathaniel Bacon

15.

What latitude line was used in the Missouri Compromise to determine free or slave state?

a)

30 36

b)

36 30

c)

03 63

d)

63 03