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Chapter 10 Review

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word means "person who is running away from legal authority".

(a)  

2.

To officially leave an organization.

(a)  

3.

Armed pro-slavery supporters who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas.

(a)  

4.

Conflict between citizens of the same country.

(a)  

5.

A place to store weapons or military equipment

(a)  

6.

A person who dies for a cause

(a)  

7.

withdrawal

(a)  

8.

theory that individual states were independent and have the right to control their most important affairs.

(a)  

9.

What idea did Stephen A. Douglas give as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Popular sovereignty

d)

Civil War

10.

In which state did rival pro-slavery and anti-slavery governments exist at the same time?

a)

Kansas

b)

Nebraska

c)

Florida

d)

Missouri

11.

Which political party did the Antislavery Whigs, Free-soilers and Democrats, join together to form?

a)

Democrats

b)

American Party

c)

Free-soil Party

d)

Republican Party

12.

Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Stephen A. Douglas

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

John Brown

13.

Which Supreme Court case decided that slaves were property, not people?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

c)

Marbury v. Madison

d)

McCulloch v. Maryland

14.

Who did the Free-Soil Party choose as a candidate for President in 1848?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Martin Van Buren

d)

Zachary Taylor

15.

What compromise resulted in a division of western land on the 36°30′ parallel in regards to their status on slavery.

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

The Great Compromise

16.

Who created the Compromise of 1850?

a)

John C. Calhoun

b)

Henry Clay

c)

Stephen A. Douglas

d)

Abraham Lincoln

17.

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

a)

slavery

b)

taxes

c)

favorite football team

d)

foreign affairs

18.

James K. Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of what state?

a)

Florida

b)

Oklahoma

c)

Texas

d)

California

19.

What did the Fugitive Slave law require?

a)

States to return runaway slaves.

b)

States to keep runaway slaves.

c)

States to create new constitutions.

d)

States to pay runaway slaves.

20.

From what nation did the United States acquired the Southwestern states (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California)

a)

Spain

b)

England

c)

France

d)

Mexico

21.

What plan called for a ban on slavery in all lands gained from Mexico?

a)

Calhoun Proviso

b)

Lincoln Proviso

c)

Douglas Proviso

d)

Wilmot Proviso

22.

What party, created in 1848, was made up of anti-slavery members of both the Whigs and Democrats?

a)

Whig Party

b)

Free-Soil Party

c)

American Party

d)

Democratic Party

23.

Which of the following was not part of the Compromise of 1850?

a)

Created a fugitive slave law

b)

Allowed California to be a slave state

c)

Banned the slave trade in Washington D.C.

d)

Allowed other states in the Mexican Cession to have no limits on slavery

24.

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

a)

Georgia

b)

South Carolina

c)

North Carolina

d)

Virginia

25.

Which of the following did secessionists use to justify secession?

a)

States' Rights

b)

The Constitution

c)

Federalism

d)

Popular Sovereignty

26.

What marked the beginning of the Civil War?

a)

Lincoln-Douglas debates

b)

Attack on Fort Sumter

c)

Lincoln inauguration

d)

Secession of South Carolina

27.

Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Stephen A. Douglas

28.

What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?

a)

Citizen War

b)

American War

c)

Total War

d)

Civil War

29.

You are running in a street marathon and you overtake the person in 2nd place. What place are you now?

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th

30.

How many days are in a year?

a)

365

b)

364

c)

366

d)

360

31.

Which Harry Potter house am I in?

a)

Gryffindor

b)

Hufflepuff

c)

Slytherin

d)

Ravenclaw

32.

Who won the election of 1860?

a)

Stephen A. Douglas

b)

John Bell

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

John C. Breckenridge