NEW
Font size
WorksheetsCivil War Causes
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Missouri entered the US as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It set a free/slave boundary line for future states in western territories
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Missouri Compromise
California joined the US as a free state, Utah and New Mexico got popular sovereignty, and the Fugitive Slave Act increased penalties for helping runaway slaves
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Jim Crow Laws
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this best-selling, realistic fiction novel to expose the inhumanity of slavery.
Of Mice and Men
Fugitives
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Life of a Slave
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that
African Americans are not citizens
slaves in free states must be freed
slavery is illegal
Once a slave, always a slave
Why was the raid on Harpers Ferry important?
It was a best-selling novel about slavery
It fueled southern fear of slave rebellions
It ended the Fugitive Slave Act
It was the first battle of the Civil War
Which of the following is NOT true about the 1860 election
Lincoln received NO electoral votes from the South
The Republican Party wanted to stop the spread of slavery
Several southern states vowed to secede if Lincoln was elected
Southern states refused to vote in protest to tariffs
About 30 years before the Civil War erupted, South Carolina caused a Nullification Crisis by refusing to enforce a federal _____
election
tariff
court decision
holiday
After seceding from the USA, South Carolina fired the first shots of the Civil War at
Fort Bragg
Fort Sumter
Summer Camp
Antietam
Term for a person who wants to end slavery
Secession
Abolitionist
Fugitive
Southerner
To formally separate from a country
Abolish
Secede
Repeal
Compromise
Radical abolitionist who tried to take weapons from Harpers Ferry federal arsenal to arm slaves for an uprising
Robert E. Lee
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
This let two new states vote to decide the slave issue for themselves, but bloody violence broke out when radicals rushed to the states to influence the vote
Kansas-Nebraska act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Raid on Harpers Ferry
What is the main effect of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?
Southern farmers finally had time to grow other crops
It converted raw cotton into thread and clothing for northern factories
It allowed people to grow cotton in colder climates
Cotton farming expanded, causing more demand for slave labor
Which statement best describes how the economic systems of the North and South rely on each other?
The North grew the food that the Southern slaves ate
The South produced the iron used to build the Northern railroads
The South grew cotton and the North turned it into fabric in their factories
The North sent skilled laborers to build southern railroads and plantations
When a state's residents are allowed to vote for an issue, rather than having the federal government tell them what to do.
popular sovereignty
secession
annexation
manifest destiny
When you're just concerned with the issues of your region (who cares about those other states!)
selfishness
isolationism
sectionalism
impressment
