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WorksheetsCauses of the Civil War Advisory Review
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 11mins
Secede means to:
rebel.
declare war on.
leave or withdraw.
become part of.
In the Compromise of 1850, which state entered the United States as a free state?
Mississippi
California
Indiana
Texas
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North most?
Ending the slave trade in Washington DC.
Allowing California to enter the US as a free state.
The stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
Allowing the territories of Utah and New Mexico to vote on slavery.
What did many Southerners fear when Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States?
Losing their land
Losing slavery
Losing their families
Losing their crops
What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?
That it was ok to own a slave
That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves
That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin
That slavery was wrong
The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to
end fighting between Midwestern farmers and native American Indians
increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections
encourage manufacturing in the west
settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories
The economy of the South depended largely on
Slave labor.
New technology.
Manufacturing.
Politics.
Southerners’ belief that states should have higher authority than the federal government was called:
States’ rights
National rights
Confederate rights
Popular sovereignty
Abolitionists wanted to
Get rid of slavery.
Limit slavery to large plantations.
Feed the hungry.
Give women the right to vote.
States in the South believed
They should have more representatives in Congress
They were better
They should have the right to decide their own laws
They were French
Popular Sovereignty was the idea that
slavery would be banned in all future states.
the government would decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.
the people would vote to decide if their state would have slavery.
slavery would be allowed in every future state.
different geographical areas of the U.S. have different beliefs and values, which can cause tension.
Sectionalism
Localism
Partiality
Provincialism
Which economy relied heavily on Industrialization and paid labor
North
South
West
Which economy relied heavily on agriculture and slavery
North
South
West
The North wanted _______tariffs because they did not want the South to keep importing foreign goods.
low
high
Which was a cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
State's Rights
Sectionalism
All of the above
What happened when Governor Sam Houston refused to let Texas join the Confederacy?
Texas removed him as Governor and replaced him with someone loyal to the Confederacy.
Texas respected his decision and decided to join the Union against the Confederacy.
The Confederacy considered his refusal a betrayal and attacked Texas.
Sam Houston asked President Lincoln to send in the National Guard to force Texas to stay in the Union.
