Worksheets21-22 Test 4-1 - Culture and Causes of the Civil War
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Which group from the colonial era were the first to speak out against slavery due to religious reasons?
Quakers
Catholics
Puritans
Pilgrims
Which compromise from the Constitutional Convention decided that a certain percentage of slaves would be counted for representation as well as population?
Missouri Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Great Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Which of the seven principles of the Constitution states that the people have power in government?
Republicanism
Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty
Checks and Balances
Which art movement focused on humans coexisting with nature?
Cubism
Modernism
Impressionism
Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were important contributors to which of the following?
Visual Arts
Literature
Music
Philosophy
The Hudson River School was an art movement that depicts landscapes where:
humans and nature could coexist peacefully.
humans should despoil nature and make progress
Americans should give land back to natives and return to Europe
the U.S. should abolish slavery and allow all races to coexist peacefully
_____ is loyalty to your section or region of the country or a desire to see that region prosper above the good of the country as a whole
Nationalism
Sectionalism
Constitutionalism
Abolition
Which of the following is NOT true of Slaves in the U.S. before the Civil War?
they faced separation from their family
they were denied an education
they were only taught basic job skills
they could only vote if they could pay the poll tax
Slave labor on the plantation system helped the South become major producers of _____, which was used in the _____of the North.
cotton / factories
tobacco / factories
indigo / factories
corn / factories
When planting the same crop (cotton) on the same soil year after year the soil loses its nutrients and becomes unusable due to soil exhaustion. This was the primary reason for:
the spread of slavery to the North
the spread of slavery to the West
the U.S. began establishing overseas colonies
the U.S. taking land from Canada
Which of the following is CORRECT about the Missouri Compromise
Maine would enter the U.S. as a slave state
it helped preserved the balance of power between northern and southern states
Missouri would enter the U.S. as a free state
Any new territory/state North of the 36-30 line would be open to slavery
The _____ benefited from tariffs because it made imported goods more expensive, so American consumers purchased American-made goods instead. The _____ did not benefit from tariffs because when foreign nations like England bought less cotton from them they lost money.
North / West
South / North
North / South
West / South
South Carolina claimed that the Tariff of Abomination was unconstitutional, and therefore, they had the right to reject it. When they threatened to secede, it almost caused a civil war. Which of the following was the name of this event?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis
Supporters of the doctrine of Nullification and Secession misinterpreted this amendment, which gave rise to the idea that “States’ Rights” means states can pretty much do whatever they want.
Tenth Amendment
First Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Second Amendment
Which of the following is TRUE about the Compromise of 1850?
California would enter the U.S. as a slave state
Slavery would be abolished in Washington D.C.
Popular Sovereignty would be used to decide the issue of slavery in Oregon
The Fugitive Slave law was enacted to help slave-owners catch runaway slaves
Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the Fugitive Slave Law?
It made it a crime to help runaway slaves
It was partially in response to the Underground Railroad
It satisfied Northerners
It put runaway slaves and freedmen in danger of being forced into slavery
Which of the following did NOT involve the expansion of slavery to the West?
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Three-Fifths Compromise
Compromise of 1850
- Missouri Compromise
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
Which of the following is a possible effect of the above list?
they can prevent a war
the abolition of slavery
women were given suffrage
_____ wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which encouraged northerners to support the Abolitionist movement, but angered southerners.
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
One important effect of the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, was that it declared the _____ unconstitutional.
Three-Fifths Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
The event that occurred between 1854-1859 in which fighting occurred between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces that led to bloodshed was known as:
Raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Bleeding Nebraska
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sandford
