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WorksheetsEvents Leading to the Civil War Test Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
A person fighting against slavery was known as _________.
Abolitionist
Plantation Owner
Protester
Soldier
Who was elected president in 1860, in turn causing some southern states to secede?
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Which states benefited the most from the Cotton Gin?
The northern states.
The states that had the most factories.
The southern states.
The states along the western coast.
How did the Cotton Gin affect slavery?
Plantation owners needed less slaves
Plantation owners needed more slaves
It didn't affect slavery
Plantation owners no longer needed slaves
The economy of the South was primarily-
industrialized
agricultural
factories
tourism
Dred Scott went to court to gain his freedom. Which court ruled that African Americans were not citizens?
Supreme Court
Federal Court
District Court
High Court
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an important book because -
It was about the many reasons why the South should secede from the Union
It allowed people to see slaves as real people and how they were treated with cruelty
It talked about ways slaves could escape on the Underground Railroad
It showed the differences between the North and the South
In 1850, the government passed a law called the Fugitive Slave Law which
Allowed runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad to become free once in the Northern states
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
Southerners thought was not as strict as the original Fugitive Slave Law
Allowed African Americans the right to vote
Which one of these was not a cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
States Rights
Sectionalism
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
All of these were causes of the Civil War
The Kansas-Nebraska Act replaced the Missouri Compromise by saying
The government would decide if the new state is a free state or slave state
Any new state North of the Missouri Compromise would be free, and South would be a slave state
Any new state can decide to be a free or slave state
Only the North States could be slave states
On the Underground Railroad, these were places to rest and hide
Stations
Plantations
Factories
Courtrooms
The _______________ is the name for the change from goods being made by hand at home to making them by machine in factories.
French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Machine Revolution
Technological Revolution
Which of these states was part of the South?
Iowa
New York
Texas
Massachusetts
Who was Jefferson Davis?
President of the Confederate States of America
The inventor of the Cotton Gin
A conductor on the Underground Railroad
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who developed Germ Theory?
Samuel F.B. Morse
Benjamin Franklin
William Morton
Louis Pasteur
