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WorksheetsChapter 15: The Road to Civil War Review
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 28mins
Exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
sectionalism
fugitive
secede
abstain
Someone who runs away from the law
sectionalism
fugitive
secede
abstain
To separate or leave the Union
sectionalism
fugitive
secede
abstain
To not cast a vote
sectionalism
fugitive
secede
abstain
The idea that allows the people to make their own decisions about the area in which they live
sectionalism
popular sovereignty
border ruffians
civil war
Armed groups from another state that cross a border solely to vote
sectionalism
popular sovereignty
border ruffians
civil war
A conflict between citizens of the same country
sectionalism
popular sovereignty
border ruffians
civil war
A storage place for weapons and ammunition
arsenal
martyr
secession
states’ rights
A person who dies for a great cause
arsenal
martyr
secession
states’ rights
Withdrawal from the Union
arsenal
martyr
secession
states’ rights
The rights of the state overrule the rights of the federal government
arsenal
martyr
secession
states’ rights
Southerners wanted a law requiring states to return ________ slaves
fugitive
abstain
martyr
frugal
Southerners were worried they would soon be outvoted in the Senate and threatened to ______ from the United States.
fugitive
secede
sojourn
abstain
Some representatives __________ from voting so Congress could pass the Compromise of 1850.
abstained
abhorred
compromised
coerced
When Missouri joined the union as a slave state, ________ joined as a free state at the same time.
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Maine
Wisconsin
Who suggested the Missouri Compromise?
John Calhoun
Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
James Polk
The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery north of the line ___________ North latitude
30*36'
42*15'
36*30'
36*00'
The _____ Party was created in 1848 when neither presidential candidate would take a stand on slavery in the territories. They nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848.
Free-Soil
Whig
Know Nothing
Liberty
Henry Clay came up with a multi-part plan to settle the issues dividing Congress. Stephen Douglas took these ideas and created the _______________.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of 1850
The ________ Slave Act of 1850 required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
Proviso
Martyr
Border
Fugitive
The _________ -Nebraska Act would allow the people in each territory to vote on whether to allow slavery.
Missouri
Kansas
Lincoln
Sovereignty
Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Zachary Taylor
Popular sovereignty means
a person who dies for a cause
to let the people decide
fugitive slaves must be returned
not voting
Who felt called by God to end slavery and led an attack against pro-slavery supporters in Kansas?
Zachary Taylor
David Wilmot
Stephen Douglas
John Brown
Why did Stephen Douglas propose organizing the region west of Missouri and Iowa as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska?
he wanted to even out the number of free and slave states
he wanted to pave the way for the transcontinental railroad
What did free African Americans and whites who opposed slavery set up to help runaway slaves?
popular sovereignty
the underground railroad
the Fugitive Slave Law
the Missouri Compromise
Armed Missourians that traveled to Kansas to vote in the elections of 1855 are often referred to as _____.
border ruffians
abstaining patrol
fugitives
sovereign party
In 1854 the Republican Party was formed. How did the Republican Party feel about slavery?
Pro-slavery
Anti-slavery
Which African American sued for his/her freedom in 1846?
Harriet Tubman
Dred Scott
John Brown
Roger B. Taney
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas both ran for Senate in the state of Illinois. Who won this election?
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Where did abolitionists raid an arsenal in an effort to help start a slave rebellion?
Harpers Ferry
Pottawatomie Creek
Freeport
Washington D.C.
What did Chief Justice Taney decide when a slave sued for his freedom?
The slave was still a slave
The slave was free because he had lived in a free state
The slave had no right to sue because he was not a citizen
The slave was property and could be taken anywhere in the country
How did Abraham Lincoln feel about slavery?
Whether a state is free or slave should be decided by popular sovereignty
Slavery should not expand to the new states and territories
Slavery is morally wrong
Who led a raid in Virginia to get guns and ammunition to hopefully start a rebellion by arming enslaved African Americans?
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
John Brown
Preston Brooks
Who was victorious in the battle at Fort Sumter?
North
South
Lincoln and the Republicans had promised ____
not to disturb slavery where it already existed.
make slavery illegal in all states
allow popular sovereignty to decide the issue
The first president of the Confederate States of America was
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Calhoun
Roger B. Taney
The 1860 presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most southern states was
John Bell
Stephen A. Douglas
John C. Breckenridge
Abraham Lincoln
The first state to secede from the United States was
Missouri
North Carolina
Virginia
South Carolina
On April 12, 1861 the first shots of the Civil war were fired at __________.
Fort Sumter
Lawrence, Kansas
Washington D.C.
Harpers Ferry
Who did the Republican Party nominate for president in the election of 1860?
Stephen A. Douglas
John C. Breckenridge
Abraham Lincoln
John Bell
Who drafted the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
James Monroe
James Polk
Thomas Jefferson
Which of the following was a proposal to ban slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico?
The Compromise of 1850
The Wilmot Proviso
The Missouri Compromise
The Freeport Doctrine
Who proposed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory?
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Zachary Taylor
The main issue in the presidential election of 1844 was the
annexation of Texas.
annexation of Maine.
annexation of New Mexico.
annexation of Missour.
The plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate was the
North-South Compromise.
Missouri Compromise.
Maine Compromise.
Slavery Compromise.
What resulted from the Fugitive Slave Act?
Passage of the law quieted widespread violence in Kansas and Nebraska.
Most Northerners believed Southern slaveholders’ rights should be upheld.
Abolitionists were jailed in the North.
The law angered the North, convincing many of the evils of slavery.
What was the main cause of the Civil War in Kansas?
Dual governments set up by pro- and antislavery groups
Passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
John Brown’s attack on Pottawatomie Creek
Invasion of Kansas by border ruffians
What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
South Carolina
Which was included in the platform of the Republican Party in the election of 1860?
The question of slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty.
In a free society, the minority had the right to break up the government.
Slavery should be left where it existed but be excluded from the territories.
The Missouri Compromise should be reinstated.
Why did Lincoln decide not to send armed troops to Fort Sumter?
He wanted to leave the decision to start fighting up to the Confederates.
The fort was already well stocked with ammunition.
He feared loss of life of Union troops.
He wanted to surrender Fort Sumter to the Confederates.
He wanted to surrender Fort Sumter to the Confederates.
Lincoln–Douglas debates
Lincoln inauguration
South Carolina seceding
Fort Sumter attack
The US president when the Civil War started (Fort Sumter) was
Stephen Douglas.
Robert E. Lee.
Jefferson Davis.
Abraham Lincoln.
Southerners justified secession with the theory of
constitutional rights.
federal rights.
the Union's errors.
states' rights.
The law that required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people was the
Removal Act.
Fugitive Slave Act.
Runaway Act.
Slave Owners Act.
