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Causes of the Civil War

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Bleeding Kansas was a result of which law?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise 1850

d)

Fugitive Slave Law

2.

Roger Taney ruled that he did not have rights because he was not a citizen. He was not granted his freedom.

a)

Worcester v. Georgia

b)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

c)

Gibbons v. Ogden

d)

Marbury v. Madison

3.

Where did the Civil War begin?

a)

Washington, DC

b)

Appomattox Court House, VA

c)

Gettysburg, VA

d)

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

4.

South Carolina seceded five weeks after which event?

a)

Election 1860

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Attack on Fort Sumter

d)

Nullification Crisis

5.

California was admitted to the Union as a free state as part of which law?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Compromise 1850

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Mexican Cession

6.

Party led by Abraham Lincoln, accepted slavery where it existed but opposed its expansion into new territories

a)

Whig

b)

Republican party

c)

Northern Democrats

d)

Democrats

7.

Popular Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that focused on the negative effects of slavery

a)

The Scarlet Letter

b)

Old town folks

c)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

d)

The woman in white

8.

A law to allow popular sovereignty in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

a)

Missouri-Maine Act

b)

Henry Clay's plan

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

9.

A plan to allow California to be admitted to the Union as a free state, also agreed to pass the Fugitive Slave Act

a)

Compromise 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise 1865

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

10.

A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States

a)

Union States of America

b)

Confederate States of America

11.

Governor of South Carolina, and Vice President to Andrew Jackson. He strongly opposed tariffs

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

John C. Calhoun

c)

John Brown

d)

Henry Clay

12.

An extreme abolitionist who was at Bleeding Kansas and the Raid at Harper's Ferry

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

John C. Calhoun

c)

John Brown

d)

Nat Turner

13.

An escaped slave who was self educated and became one of the most famous abolitionists

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

John Brown

c)

Freddy Jones

d)

Henry Clay

14.

A feeling of pride or loyalty to your region/section of the country

a)

supporter

b)

pride

c)

secession

d)

sectionalism

15.

To leave or withdraw

a)

nullify

b)

secede

c)

sectionalism

d)

join