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Causes of the Civil War Review

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 29mins

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Class
Date
1.

The debate over the expansion of slavery, which ultimately caused the Civil War, was over what part of the United States?

a)

The South

b)

The North

c)

The Western Territories

d)

California

2.

Sectionalism was clearly seen in America in 1850 by a loyalty to either:

a)

The East or the West

b)

The North or the South

c)

Slave or Anti-Slave territories

d)

Republicans or Democrats

3.

The main goal of the Free Soil Party was:

a)

Equal rights for slaveholders in the South

b)

Popular Sovereignty in the Western Territories

c)

Outlawing slavery in the South

d)

Stopping the expansion of slavery in the Western Territories

4.

The Compromise of 1850:

a)

Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state

b)

Outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C.

c)

Amended and enforced the Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Created the Utah and New Mexico Territories

e)

All of the above are correct

5.

The Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 ordered Northern citizens

a)

to enlist in the Union Army to fight the Civil War

b)

to help catch runaway slaves in the North

c)

to fight slave catchers trying to catch runaway slaves

d)

none of the above are correct

6.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

a)

Made Kansas a free state and Nebraska a slave state

b)

Allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether slavery would be legal in Kansas and Nebraska

c)

Outlawed slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

d)

Made Kansas a slave state and Nebraska a free state

7.

In 1854 which western Territory did abolitionists and pro-slavery people kill each other?

a)

South Carolina

b)

California

c)

Kansas

d)

Missouri

8.

Which political party was formed by anti-slavery Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Northern Democrats?

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Republican

c)

Know Nothing

d)

Democrat

9.

In the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court ruled that: (Check all the Apply)

a)

African Americans were not citizens and had no right to file lawsuits

b)

Slaves were free if they were taken to free states by their masters and remained there for 10 years

c)

Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional so the Louisiana Territory was not a free territory

d)

Dred Scott was free because he was granted freedom from his master

e)

Slaves were property so under the 5th amendment the Supreme court could not set him free.

10.

What event made Lincoln known to Americans as a possible presidential candidate in the election of 1860?

a)

the Lincoln Douglass Debates in the Illinois Senatorial election of 1858

b)

Bleeding Kansas

c)

Border slave states that did not leave the Union

d)

Theory of states rights

11.

Who was the famous radical abolitionist that led an unsuccessful raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia?

a)

Fredrick Douglass

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

John Brown

12.

What was the result of Abraham Lincoln’s victory of the presidency in 1860?

a)

the border slave states left the Union

b)

most slave states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America

c)

border disputes in Nebraska and Kansas

d)

Robert E. Lee became the Union general

13.

How did the South justify seceding from the Union with the theory of States Rights?

a)

Because the states voluntarily entered the union the states had the right to nullify federal law and to leave the Union

b)

states had the right to sue the federal government for money lost in the Underground Railroad

c)

states had the right to abolish slavery

d)

states had the right to force citizens to catch runaway slaves

14.

What was the major goal of Lincoln as soon as he took office in 1861?

a)

abolish slavery

b)

convince the border states to stay in the Union

c)

appoint generals in the Union army

d)

crush the South

15.

Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?

a)

Richmond

b)

Gettysburg

c)

Ft. Sumter

d)

Bull Run

16.

Which controversial book opened Northerners eyes to the evils of slavery?

a)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

b)

Douglass’ Theory of States Rights

c)

Biography of Fredrick Douglass

d)

Biography of Harriet Tubman

17.

Which of the following laws were meant to keep slaves from rebelling?

a)

the Master’s Creed

b)

Jim Crow laws

c)

slave codes

d)

Southern Bill of Rights

18.

What is the theory that the Constitution was a contract between independent states. If the federal government violates the Constitution the states have the right to leave the United States.

a)

Popular Sovereignty

b)

Confederacy

c)

States' Rights

d)

Secession

19.

The states that remained a part of the United States of America when the Civil War started.

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Confederacy

c)

Union

d)

Secession

20.

Fighting between slaveholders and abolitionists years before the first battles in the Civil War.

a)

Bleeding Kansas

b)

John Brown

c)

Cotton Gin

d)

Underground Railroad

21.

A network of routes and safe-houses that led to freedom in Canada

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Union

d)

Underground Railroad

22.

The states that left the United States during the Civil War.

a)

Secession

b)

Confederacy

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Union

23.

The act of withdrawing from a country

a)

Confederacy

b)

Union

c)

Secession

d)

Popular Sovereignty

24.

Someone who wants to end slavery

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Underground Railroad

c)

States' Rights

d)

Popular Soverignty

25.

A major factor in the South’s dependence on slave labor

a)

Cotton Gin

b)

Confederacy

c)

Seccesion

d)

Abolitionist

26.

The people rule

a)

Confederacy

b)

Secession

c)

States' Rights

d)

Popular Sovereignty

27.

Who was the abolitionist who was executed for his actions at Harper’s Ferry

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

John Brown

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Dred Scott

28.

Senator from Illinois that ran for president against Abraham Lincoln

a)

Preston Brooks

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Charles Sumner

d)

Stephen Douglas

29.

Massachusetts senator that lashed out at slaveholders and pro-slave senators in a speech.

a)

Charles Sumner

b)

Preston Brooks

c)

Stephen Douglas

d)

Jefferson Davis

30.

President of the Confederacy

a)

Stephen Douglas

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Preston Brooks

31.

Sued for their freedom

a)

John Brown

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Dred Scott

32.

Owner of the anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Harriet Tubman

33.

Black Abolitionist

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Charles Sumner

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

34.

Nicknamed Moses for their ability to free slaves on the Underground Railroad.

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Frederick Douglass

35.

They beat a senator with a cane over his anti-slavery remarks on the Senate floor and the insults of his cousin.

a)

Charles Sumner

b)

Preston Brooks

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Eli Whitney

36.

Republican nominee in the 1860 presidential election

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Stephen Douglas

37.

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

John Brown

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

38.

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

William Lloyd Garrison