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WorksheetsCauses of the Civil War
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Bleeding Kansas was a result of which law?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Roger Taney ruled that he did not have rights because he was not a citizen. He was not granted his freedom.
Worcester v. Georgia
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Gibbons v. Ogden
Marbury v. Madison
Where did the Civil War begin?
Washington, DC
Appomattox Court House, VA
Gettysburg, VA
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
South Carolina seceded five weeks after which event?
Election 1860
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Attack on Fort Sumter
Nullification Crisis
California was admitted to the Union as a free state as part of which law?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise 1850
Missouri Compromise
Mexican Cession
Party led by Abraham Lincoln, accepted slavery where it existed but opposed its expansion into new territories
Whig
Republican party
Northern Democrats
Democrats
Popular Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that focused on the negative effects of slavery
The Scarlet Letter
Old town folks
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The woman in white
A law to allow popular sovereignty in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Missouri-Maine Act
Henry Clay's plan
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A plan to allow California to be admitted to the Union as a free state, also agreed to pass the Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise 1850
Missouri Compromise
Compromise 1865
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States
Union States of America
Confederate States of America
Governor of South Carolina, and Vice President to Andrew Jackson. He strongly opposed tariffs
Frederick Douglass
John C. Calhoun
John Brown
Henry Clay
An extreme abolitionist who was at Bleeding Kansas and the Raid at Harper's Ferry
Frederick Douglass
John C. Calhoun
John Brown
Nat Turner
An escaped slave who was self educated and became one of the most famous abolitionists
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Freddy Jones
Henry Clay
A feeling of pride or loyalty to your region/section of the country
supporter
pride
secession
sectionalism
To leave or withdraw
nullify
secede
sectionalism
join
