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WorksheetsRoad to Civil War - Final
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
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?
Fugitive Slave Act
Dred Scot Decision
Popular Sovereignty
Missouri Compromise
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 House Divided against itself can not stand"
"All men are created equal"
"Four score and seven years ago"
"Give me liberty or give me death"
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?
Republican Party
Know-Nothings
American Party
Constitution Party
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?
John Brown
Thomas Jackson
Fredrick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Check all the boxes that describe the North at the start of the Civil War.
Mostly Large Cities
Factories
Mostly Large Farms/Plantations
Large Population
Slavery Allowed
Check all the boxes that describe the South at the start of the Civil War.
Mostly Large Cities
Factories
Mostly Large Farms/Plantations
Cotton and Other Cash Crops
Slavery Allowed
In 1852, this book was a bestseller that portrayed an abolitionist version of slavery and helped spread the abolitionist movement in the North?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sleepy Hollow
Uncle Phillis Cabin
Little Women
In 1857, this Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were the same as property and therefore invalidated the Missouri Compromise?
Dred Scot v. Sanford
Worcester v. Georgia
Brown v. Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
In 1854, this act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves on the issue of slavery (vote on it)?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Wilmot Proviso
In 1848, this bill proposed to make slavery illegal in all the territory acquired from Mexico?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Wilmot Proviso
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?
1860
1856
1864
1852
