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Expanding Nation Vocabulary

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Eviction

a)

To expel or force out through a legal process

b)

Commercial production of goods

c)

To enter and settle into a new country

d)

A state or district formally leaving and withdrawing from a country

2.

Industry

a)

Commercial production of goods

b)

To enter and settle in a new country

c)

A state or district formally leaving and withdrawing from a country

d)

Someone who wants to end slavery

3.

Immigration

a)

To enter and settle into a new country

b)

A state or district formally leaving and withdrawing from a country

c)

Someone who wants to end slavery

d)

To expel or force out through a legal process

4.

Secession

a)

A state or district formally leaving and withdrawing from a country

b)

To expel or force out through a legal process

c)

Commercial production of goods

d)

Someone who wants to end slavery

5.

Abolitionist

a)

Someone who wants to end slavery

b)

To expel or force out through a legal process

c)

To enter and settle in a new country

d)

Commercial production of goods

6.

Manifest Destiny

a)

The idea that God had given the US the right to conquer the land in North America.

b)

Someone who wants to end slavery

c)

Route used during the US westward migrations, especially from 1840-1860

d)

The action of becoming larger or more extensive

7.

Compromise of 1850

a)

A set of laws, that admitted California to the US as a "free" state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Included the Fugitive Slave Act

b)

Covered or protected with iron

c)

Declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently rebelling against the Union, "shall be then , thenceforward, and forever free."

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

8.

The Oregon Trail

a)

A route used during the US westward migrations, especially from 1840 - 1860.

b)

18th President of the US; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War

c)

The action of becoming larger or more extensive

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

9.

Ulysses S Grant

a)

18th President of the US; commander of the Union armies during the American Civil War

b)

The action of becoming larger or more extensive

c)

US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states

10.

Robert E Lee

a)

American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War

b)

Covered or protected with iron

c)

US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states

11.

Expansion

a)

The action of becoming larger or more extensive

b)

Someone who wants to end slavery

c)

To enter and settle in a new country

d)

To expel or force out through legal process

12.

Dred Scott Decision

a)

American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War

b)

Covered or protected with iron

c)

US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states

13.

Ironclad

a)

American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War

b)

Covered or protected with iron

c)

US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states

14.

Confederacy

a)

American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War

b)

Covered or protected with iron

c)

US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states

15.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

a)

1854 bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" - allowing the people of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.

b)

Covered or protected with iron

c)

US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states

16.

Emancipation Proclamation

a)

1854 bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" - allowing the people of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.

b)

Covered or protected with iron

c)

declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in states currently rebelling against the Union, "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states

17.

Missouri Compromise

a)

A set of laws, that admitted California to the US as a "free" state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Included the Fugitive Slave Act

b)

Covered or protected with iron

c)

An agreement in 1820 that admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and banned slavery from any future territories or sates north of the 36•30 line

d)

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.