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WEEK 3 Starter

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are States' Rights?

a)

Equal rights for all people

b)

The right to choose who can live in each state

c)

The right of each United States state to make its own local laws

d)

The right to exit the United States

2.

What is a compromise?

a)

A situation when groups on each side of an issue each give in a little to reach an agreement

b)

A promise given to another

c)

A duel where two fight to the death

d)

A situation where each side never agrees on an issue

3.

What is an Abolitionist?

a)

A plantation owner

b)

A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery

c)

A person who supported slavery

d)

A group of people who supported the Civil War

4.

What does the word Secession mean?

a)

The separation of a state from a nation

b)

When you succeed at a task

c)

A meeting of Representatives

d)

The joining of a state to a nation

5.

What were the causes of the Civil War?

a)

Sectionalism

b)

States' Rights

c)

Science

d)

Slavery

e)

Symbolism

6.
Whose economy depended on slave labor?
a)
neither the North or the South
b)
North
c)
both the North and the South
d)
South
7.
Case brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave wanted his freedom: Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.
a)
Dred Scott Decision
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
d)
Fugitive Slave Act
8.
Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south. 
a)
Fugitive Slave Act
b)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
c)
Dred Scott Decision
d)
Compromise of 1850
9.

Secede means

a)

to win.

b)

to lose.

c)

to change.

d)

to withdraw.

10.

Which region of the country had a lot of manufacturing?

a)

The North

b)

The South

c)

The West

11.

What was the Nullification Crisis?

a)

South Dakota was forced to pay the Tariff of Abominations

b)

South Carolina tried to secede, using the mandate of states' rights

c)

North Carolina refused to pay a protective tariff

12.
A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional
a)
submission
b)
secession
c)
nullification
d)
partition