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Events Leading to the Civil War Test Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A person fighting against slavery was known as _________.

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Plantation Owner

c)

Protester

d)

Soldier

2.

Who was elected president in 1860, in turn causing some southern states to secede?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

George Washington

3.

Which states benefited the most from the Cotton Gin?

a)

The northern states.

b)

The states that had the most factories.

c)

The southern states.

d)

The states along the western coast.

4.

How did the Cotton Gin affect slavery?

a)

Plantation owners needed less slaves

b)

Plantation owners needed more slaves

c)

It didn't affect slavery

d)

Plantation owners no longer needed slaves

5.

The economy of the South was primarily-

a)

industrialized

b)

agricultural

c)

factories

d)

tourism

6.

Dred Scott went to court to gain his freedom. Which court ruled that African Americans were not citizens?

a)

Supreme Court

b)

Federal Court

c)

District Court

d)

High Court

7.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an important book because -

a)

It was about the many reasons why the South should secede from the Union

b)

It allowed people to see slaves as real people and how they were treated with cruelty

c)

It talked about ways slaves could escape on the Underground Railroad

d)

It showed the differences between the North and the South

8.

In 1850, the government passed a law called the Fugitive Slave Law which

a)

Allowed runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad to become free once in the Northern states

b)

Stated that slaves that escaped to the North must be returned to their owners and that anyone helping a runaway would be fined and imprisoned

c)

Southerners thought was not as strict as the original Fugitive Slave Law

d)

Allowed African Americans the right to vote

9.

Which one of these was not a cause of the Civil War?

a)

Slavery

b)

States Rights

c)

Sectionalism

d)

The Election of Abraham Lincoln

e)

All of these were causes of the Civil War

10.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act replaced the Missouri Compromise by saying

a)

The government would decide if the new state is a free state or slave state

b)

Any new state North of the Missouri Compromise would be free, and South would be a slave state

c)

Any new state can decide to be a free or slave state

d)

Only the North States could be slave states

11.

On the Underground Railroad, these were places to rest and hide

a)

Stations

b)

Plantations

c)

Factories

d)

Courtrooms

12.

The _______________ is the name for the change from goods being made by hand at home to making them by machine in factories.

a)

French Revolution

b)

Industrial Revolution

c)

Machine Revolution

d)

Technological Revolution

13.

Which of these states was part of the South?

a)

Iowa

b)

New York

c)

Texas

d)

Massachusetts

14.

Who was Jefferson Davis?

a)

President of the Confederate States of America

b)

The inventor of the Cotton Gin

c)

A conductor on the Underground Railroad

d)

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

15.

Who developed Germ Theory?

a)

Samuel F.B. Morse

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

William Morton

d)

Louis Pasteur