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Causes of The Civil War

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This Compromise said that Missouri would join the Union as a slave state and Maine would join as a free state. All new land would be divided by this Missouri line. South of the line would be slave states, and North of the line would be free states.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Compromise of 2020

2.

This man started a slave rebellion. He and other enslaved people killed about 60 white people.

a)

John Brown

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Abraham Lincoln

3.

This was the title of Harriet Beecher Stow's book. This book showed the people the horrors of slavery

a)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

b)

Bleeding Kansas

c)

Slavery is awful

4.

This man was slave who went to court after his master brought him to a free state. He fought to be free. He was told he was a piece of property.

a)

John Brown

b)

Dred Scott

c)

Mrs. Zahaykevitz

5.

This president believed that slavery was wrong. Once elected 7 southern states withdrew from the Union.

a)

Donald Trump

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

George Bush

6.

This act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote whether they would allow slavery. Fighting broke out, and 56 lives were lost.

a)

Kansas -Nebraska Act

b)

Just say No

c)

Compromise of 1850

7.

This word means to leave a group and become independent.

a)

go bye bye

b)

succession

c)

Inclusion

8.

People in the Northern part of the United State primarily made their living from:

a)

selling cars

b)

working in factories and industries

c)

farming

9.

People in the Southern part of the United States primarily made their living by:

a)

Farming

b)

Selling cars

c)

raising cattle

10.

A person who felt slavery was evil and wrong was called an:

a)

outlander

b)

abolitionist

c)

invader

11.

The south relied on this for its livelihood.

a)

trains

b)

machines

c)

slavery

12.

To withdraw or leave are synonyms of this word:

a)

Fugitive

b)

Secede

c)

Popular sovereignty

d)

Compromise

13.

Runaway slaves used the ______ to escape to the North and freedom.

a)

Transcontinental Railroad

b)

Underground Railroad

c)

Escaped Slave Expressway

d)

The Ohio River

14.

This law allowed government officials to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave

a)

Dred Scott case

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Slave codes

d)

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

15.

This novel explored the harsh realities of slavery and let readers see what slavery was really like

a)

La Amistad

b)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

c)

Gettysburg Address

d)

Slave codes

16.

This was the first state to secede when Abraham lincoln was elected president

a)

North Carolina

b)

South Carolina

c)

Missouri

d)

Alabama

17.

Who was president of the Confederate States during the war?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

18.
Where were most of the cities in the 1850s?
a)
North
b)
South
c)
East
d)
West
19.
What was life like for FREE African Americans?
a)
They lived in fear of losing their freedom.
b)
The lived the same as white citizens.
c)
They lived as paid slaves.
d)
They received many benefits 
20.
What problem did the Missouri Compromise solve?
a)
Southern states wanted a free state.
b)
It made an equal number of slave and free states.
c)
It made more slave states.
d)
It made more free states.