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Chapter 16 Toward Civil War

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to the bar graph, who received the fewest electoral votes in the 1860 presidential election?

a)

Bell

b)

Lincoln

c)

Breckenridge

d)

Douglas

2.

The Whig Party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1849.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

3.

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

4.

The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

John C. Calhoun offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

6.

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

7.

Name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas

a)

36° 30’ North Latitude

b)

“Bleeding Kansas”

c)

John Brown

d)

Compromise of 1850

e)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

8.

Put the issue of slavery to popular vote

a)

36° 30’ North Latitude

b)

“Bleeding Kansas”

c)

John Brown

d)

Compromise of 1850

e)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

9.

Included the Fugitive Slave Act

a)

36° 30’ North Latitude

b)

“Bleeding Kansas”

c)

John Brown

d)

Compromise of 1850

e)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

10.

The line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

a)

36° 30’ North Latitude

b)

“Bleeding Kansas”

c)

John Brown

d)

Compromise of 1850

e)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

11.

Violent abolitionist

a)

36° 30’ North Latitude

b)

“Bleeding Kansas”

c)

John Brown

d)

Compromise of 1850

e)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

12.

Wrote the Dred Scott decision

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Freeport Doctrine

c)

Roger B. Taney

d)

Zachary Taylor

e)

Henry David Thoreau

13.

Arose from the Lincoln-Douglas debates

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Freeport Doctrine

c)

Roger B. Taney

d)

Zachary Taylor

e)

Henry David Thoreau

14.

Wrote “Civil Disobedience”

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Freeport Doctrine

c)

Roger B. Taney

d)

Zachary Taylor

e)

Henry David Thoreau

15.

Won the 1848 presidential election

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Freeport Doctrine

c)

Roger B. Taney

d)

Zachary Taylor

e)

Henry David Thoreau

16.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; ruled that Scott was property
a)
Dred Scott
b)
Roger B. Taney
c)
Millard Fillmore
d)
Jefferson Davis
17.
Who did the Whig party choose for their presidential candidate in 1849?
a)
Zachary Taylor
b)
Millard Fillmore
c)
Lewis Cass
d)
Martin VanBuren
18.
Who offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso?
a)
John C. Calhoun
b)
Zachary Taylor
c)
Lewis Cass
d)
Millard Fillmore
19.
During the Presidential election of 1848, which candidates ignored the issue of slavery?
a)
Zachary Taylor
b)
Lewis Cass
c)
Both Cass and Taylor
d)
Neither Cass nor Taylor
20.
Henry Clay's plan for slavery, passed through congress with the help of Stephen A. Douglas.
a)
Compromise of 1850
b)
The Fugitive Slave Act
c)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
d)
Missouri Compromise
21.

Lincoln believed slavery was moral.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Proslavery groups considered John Brown a martyr.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

An arsenal is a storage site for weapons.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

The American Party grew quickly due to its anti-immigrant view.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

The Know-Nothings chose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the 1856 presidential election.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

In which state did the Civil War begin?

a)

Kansas

b)

Missouri

c)

South Carolina

d)

Georgia

28.

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

a)

attack on Fort Sumter

b)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

c)

Lincoln inauguration

d)

secession of South Carolina

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