WorksheetsCauses of the Civil War
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
The devotion to your region rather than your country as a whole is ___________
states rights
sectionalism
a tariff
states rights
____________ was considered a moral and political issue
states rights
tariffs
sectionalism
slavery
True or false: The south had industry, large cities, a diverse population, and favored the politics of the Republican party which supported the abolition of slavery.
true
false
the ____________ made it a crime to help slaves escape slavery
Law of April 6 1830
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
True or false: Judges could get $10 for every runaway slave captured
true
false
__________ was the first book that highlighted the cruelty of slavery
The North Star
The Liberator
Gettysberg address
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sarah Grimke
Soujourner Truth
Which supreme court case deemed slaves as property and also said that slaves could be taken anywhere in the U.S?
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Brown vs Board of Education
Marbury vs. Madison
Plessy vs Fergerson
______________ is the belief that states have the right to make their own rules with little interference from the government.
sectionalism
tariffs
states rights
Fugitive Slave law
What is a tariff?
a tax on imported goods
a tax on exported goods
free shipping
Many states in the south left the union after the election of ___________
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
After leaving the union, Texas joined _____________
Canada
Mexico
the confederacy
