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Road to Civil War - Final

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In 1850, when California was added as a "Free" State, what law was added to the Compromise of 1850 that allowed Southerners to recapture their runaway slaves that made it North?

a)

Fugitive Slave Act

b)

Dred Scot Decision

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Missouri Compromise

2.

Prior to the Civil War Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass were involved in a series of debates with another. In one of these debates, Lincoln delivered a famous speech saying quote?

a)

"A House Divided against itself can not stand"

b)

"All men are created equal"

c)

"Four score and seven years ago"

d)

"Give me liberty or give me death"

3.

This political party was created in 1854 and incorporated most of the former Whig Party to challenge Democrats in the Presidential elections of 1856 & 1860?

a)

Republican Party

b)

Know-Nothings

c)

American Party

d)

Constitution Party

4.

He was an abolitionist that used violence to try to end slavery. He was captured in Harper's Ferry Virginia in 1859, and hanged for treason?

a)

John Brown

b)

Thomas Jackson

c)

Fredrick Douglass

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

5.

Check all the boxes that describe the North at the start of the Civil War.

a)

Mostly Large Cities

b)

Factories

c)

Mostly Large Farms/Plantations

d)

Large Population

e)

Slavery Allowed

6.

Check all the boxes that describe the South at the start of the Civil War.

a)

Mostly Large Cities

b)

Factories

c)

Mostly Large Farms/Plantations

d)

Cotton and Other Cash Crops

e)

Slavery Allowed

7.

In 1852, this book was a bestseller that portrayed an abolitionist version of slavery and helped spread the abolitionist movement in the North?

a)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

b)

Sleepy Hollow

c)

Uncle Phillis Cabin

d)

Little Women

8.

In 1857, this Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were the same as property and therefore invalidated the Missouri Compromise?

a)

Dred Scot v. Sanford

b)

Worcester v. Georgia

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Marbury v. Madison

9.

In 1854, this act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves on the issue of slavery (vote on it)?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Wilmot Proviso

10.

In 1848, this bill proposed to make slavery illegal in all the territory acquired from Mexico?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Wilmot Proviso

11.

What election was the main cause of the Civil War because no one in the South voted for Lincoln, and yet he still won the election?

a)

1860

b)

1856

c)

1864

d)

1852