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WorksheetsRoad to the Civil War
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Missouri was a part of which original land purchase?
Adams-Onis Treaty
Louisiana Purchase
Proclamation of 1763
Alaska Purchase Act
What two states were added to the Union in order to keep free and slave representation even?
Florida and Wyoming
Kansas and Nebraska
Maine and Missouri
Utah and New Mexico
In what war did America's victory open the western territory of North America all the way to the Pacific Ocean?
The Revolutionary War
The War of 1812
The Civil War
The Mexican American War
Which provision was NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850?
California admitted as a slave state
Fugitive Slave Act
End of slave auctions and sale in D.C.
Popular sovereignty for the Utah and New Mexico territories
What did the Fugitive Slave Act now make a requirement of all Americans?
To report someone they thought was a slave to the authorities
To not personally escape from jail or captivity
The requirement to vote or else be imprisoned
The requirement for everyone to own at least one slave
Which individual introduced the Kansas Nebraska Act to Congress?
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglas
What was Douglas's solution that would allow the people in the territories to determine whether they would be slave or free?
Habeas Corpus
Popular Sovereignty
Divine Right
Manifest Destiny
What previous compromise was overturned as a result of the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The Tenth Amendment
The Missouri Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise
Compromise of 1850
What piece of legislation led to the violence in Kansas?
Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas Nebraska Act
Who was the violent abolitionist that caused the Pottawatomie Massacre and eventually led the raid on Harpers Ferry?
Henry Clay
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Joseph Smith
Who was the Chief Justice that ruled against Dred Scott's Freedom?
John Marshall
Roger Taney
Samuel Chase
Hugo Black
What did Taney ultimatley rule in the Dred Scott decision?
Slaves were not citizens and did not have the right to sue in federal court
Taney was given his freedom
Taney had to pay restitution and leave the country
The south had to free its slaves because they deserved it
What Constitutional authority of Congress did Taney disagree with?
Congress did not have the authority to admit states
Congress did not have the authority to make federal law.
Congress did not have the authority to ban slavery in the states
Congress did not have the authority to arrest federal fugitives
How many states did African American men have the right to vote in prior to the Dred Scott ruling?
5
10
0
3
Based on what you heard in the video, would Lincoln have been considered an Abolitionist?
Yes
No
