WorksheetsUNIT 9: Prelude to War
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
David Wilmot authored the "Wilmot Proviso" during the Mexican-American War. The Proviso said:
The U.S. will not take lands from Mexico
Lands taken from Mexico will be open to slavery
Lands taken from Mexico will be closed to slavery
This place became a State in 1850 after a compromise
California
Texas
Utah
Kansas
This place became a State in 1845 leading to a war with Mexico in 1846.
New Mexico
Texas
California
Oregon
Which territory West of Missouri was re-organized in 1854 to allow voters to decide the slavery question?
Kansas
Kentucky
California
Oregon
The Missouri Compromise involved drawing a line on the map. What latitude was the line?
20% rule
36o30'
50/50
123
This is the first state to secede from the Union in 1860
South Carolina
North Carolina
Texas
Mississippi
In exchange for allowing California statehood, what did the North agree to do?
expand slavery into Ohio
share the gold from California
capture & return escaped slaves
surrender Fort Sumter
Whose essay on 'Civil Disobedience' convinces Northerners not to obey the Fugitive Slave Act?
Stephen Douglas
Henry David Thoreau
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
What is the term for the conflict in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Abolitionist War
Bleeding Kansas
The Civil War
The Slave War
Who took his five sons to Kansas to fight and kill pro-slavery farmers?
Henry David Thoreau
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Which political party was formed in protest to the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854?
Democratic
Republican
Federalist
American
Who sued their master for their freedom?
James Buchanan
Henry David Thoreau
John Brown
Dredd Scott
What principle was Dredd Scott's case for freedom based upon?
"Once free, always free"
"Once enslaved, always enslaved"
"No slavery in the North"
"No slavery in Mexico"
How did the Supreme Court rule in the Scott case?
Against Scott
For Scott
They did not issue a ruling
According to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, which group had NO rights in the United States?
Africans - both free and slave
Native Americans
Women
Enslaved Africans
What issue did Lincoln and Douglas debate in public 7 times in 1858?
slavery
the trans-continental railroad
the Mexican-American war
the bank
Who tried to start a slave revolt by launching a raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
Robert E. Lee
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
Elijah Lovejoy
Which political party is divided over HOW MUCH they support slavery?
the Constitutional Unionists
the Democrats
the Republicans
the Know-Nothings (American)
Who won the election for president in 1860?
Douglas
Lincoln
Breckinridge
Bell
What state seceded (withdrew) from the Union in protest to the victory of Lincoln in 1860?
Illinois
South Carolina
Florida
Texas
What state is red?
Virginia
South Carolina
Mississippi
Kentucky
According to the 'States' Rights' argument, what do the States have the power to do?
tax citizens
declare war
secede (leave) the Union
own slaves
What is the first battle of the Civil War, on April 12th 1861?
Fort Sumter
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Bliss
Battle of New Orleans
