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WorksheetsCauses of the Civil War Review
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 29mins
The debate over the expansion of slavery, which ultimately caused the Civil War, was over what part of the United States?
The South
The North
The Western Territories
California
Sectionalism was clearly seen in America in 1850 by a loyalty to either:
The East or the West
The North or the South
Slave or Anti-Slave territories
Republicans or Democrats
The main goal of the Free Soil Party was:
Equal rights for slaveholders in the South
Popular Sovereignty in the Western Territories
Outlawing slavery in the South
Stopping the expansion of slavery in the Western Territories
The Compromise of 1850:
Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state
Outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C.
Amended and enforced the Fugitive Slave Act
Created the Utah and New Mexico Territories
All of the above are correct
The Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 ordered Northern citizens
to enlist in the Union Army to fight the Civil War
to help catch runaway slaves in the North
to fight slave catchers trying to catch runaway slaves
none of the above are correct
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Made Kansas a free state and Nebraska a slave state
Allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether slavery would be legal in Kansas and Nebraska
Outlawed slavery in Kansas and Nebraska
Made Kansas a slave state and Nebraska a free state
In 1854 which western Territory did abolitionists and pro-slavery people kill each other?
South Carolina
California
Kansas
Missouri
Which political party was formed by anti-slavery Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Northern Democrats?
Abolitionist
Republican
Know Nothing
Democrat
In the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court ruled that: (Check all the Apply)
African Americans were not citizens and had no right to file lawsuits
Slaves were free if they were taken to free states by their masters and remained there for 10 years
Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional so the Louisiana Territory was not a free territory
Dred Scott was free because he was granted freedom from his master
Slaves were property so under the 5th amendment the Supreme court could not set him free.
What event made Lincoln known to Americans as a possible presidential candidate in the election of 1860?
the Lincoln Douglass Debates in the Illinois Senatorial election of 1858
Bleeding Kansas
Border slave states that did not leave the Union
Theory of states rights
Who was the famous radical abolitionist that led an unsuccessful raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia?
Fredrick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
John Brown
What was the result of Abraham Lincoln’s victory of the presidency in 1860?
the border slave states left the Union
most slave states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America
border disputes in Nebraska and Kansas
Robert E. Lee became the Union general
How did the South justify seceding from the Union with the theory of States Rights?
Because the states voluntarily entered the union the states had the right to nullify federal law and to leave the Union
states had the right to sue the federal government for money lost in the Underground Railroad
states had the right to abolish slavery
states had the right to force citizens to catch runaway slaves
What was the major goal of Lincoln as soon as he took office in 1861?
abolish slavery
convince the border states to stay in the Union
appoint generals in the Union army
crush the South
Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?
Richmond
Gettysburg
Ft. Sumter
Bull Run
Which controversial book opened Northerners eyes to the evils of slavery?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Douglass’ Theory of States Rights
Biography of Fredrick Douglass
Biography of Harriet Tubman
Which of the following laws were meant to keep slaves from rebelling?
the Master’s Creed
Jim Crow laws
slave codes
Southern Bill of Rights
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.
Popular Sovereignty
Confederacy
States' Rights
Secession
The states that remained a part of the United States of America when the Civil War started.
Abolitionist
Confederacy
Union
Secession
Fighting between slaveholders and abolitionists years before the first battles in the Civil War.
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
Cotton Gin
Underground Railroad
A network of routes and safe-houses that led to freedom in Canada
Abolitionist
Harriet Tubman
Union
Underground Railroad
The states that left the United States during the Civil War.
Secession
Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Union
The act of withdrawing from a country
Confederacy
Union
Secession
Popular Sovereignty
Someone who wants to end slavery
Abolitionist
Underground Railroad
States' Rights
Popular Soverignty
A major factor in the South’s dependence on slave labor
Cotton Gin
Confederacy
Seccesion
Abolitionist
The people rule
Confederacy
Secession
States' Rights
Popular Sovereignty
Who was the abolitionist who was executed for his actions at Harper’s Ferry
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott
Senator from Illinois that ran for president against Abraham Lincoln
Preston Brooks
Jefferson Davis
Charles Sumner
Stephen Douglas
Massachusetts senator that lashed out at slaveholders and pro-slave senators in a speech.
Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
Stephen Douglas
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Preston Brooks
Sued for their freedom
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Dred Scott
Owner of the anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Black Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Sumner
William Lloyd Garrison
Nicknamed Moses for their ability to free slaves on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
They beat a senator with a cane over his anti-slavery remarks on the Senate floor and the insults of his cousin.
Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
Jefferson Davis
Eli Whitney
Republican nominee in the 1860 presidential election
Jefferson Davis
Eli Whitney
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
