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WorksheetsRoad to the Civil War (Part 1)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act revoke (get rid of) the Missouri Compromise?
It did not allow KS and NE to vote on slavery, so there was a possibility of slavery north of the 36 30 line.
It allowed KS and NE to vote on slavery, so there was a possibility of slavery north of the 36 30 line.
It turned Missouri into a free state
It said North of the 36'30 line would now be slave
What was the reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Violence erupted in Kansas
North was happy with the compromise
Peaceful vote in Kansas and Nebraska
What was the main issue that divided the North and South during the 1800's?
What escaped slave returned to help others escape?
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Dred Scott
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
What was the Underground Railroad?
Underground railroads (early subways)
Secret underground tunnels
Network of routes and safe houses to help slaves escape
What was the Abolitionist movement?
People who didn't care about slavery
People who wanted to end slavery
People who wanted to spread slavery out West
What escaped slave found freedom in the North and eventually wrote his own autobiography?
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Dred Scott
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Dred Scott
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
What is popular sovereignty?
A dictatorship
People vote and decide the issue for themselves
A monarchy
People get to carry out justice for themselves
Which law forced both Northerners and Southerners to return escaped slaves back to their owners?
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Fugitive Slave Law
Missouri Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise 1820
Compromise of 1850
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Getting land out west
Depicting the evils of slavery
Reasons slavery should expand out West
9) The Missouri Compromise allowed _______ to come in as a free state, and ________ to come in as a slave state.
Missouri, Maine
Michigan, Missouri
Maine, Missouri
Missouri, Michigab
Which man was kidnapped from the North and sold illegally into slavery for 12 years?
Dred Scott
Sojourner Truth
Solomon Northrup
Nathaniel Bacon
What latitude line was used in the Missouri Compromise to determine free or slave state?
30 36
36 30
03 63
63 03
