WorksheetsSlavery, Early Compromise, and the Civil War Practice
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
A strong supporter of abolitionism, I changed my name after I became convinced that God had called me to spread the message of abolitionism and gender equality. Who am I?
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
Among my list of accomplishments, would being the only president in the WWE Hall of Fame and signing the "Emancipation Proclamation". Who am I?
Theodore Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
While I would later become president of the United States, I would the United States to victory in the Civil War by finally getting the Confederates to surrender. Who am I?
George B. McClellan
Ulysses Grant
George Meade
James Longstreet
My methods have led many modern historians to call me a terrorist after my involvement in "Bleeding Kansas" and the Raid on Harpers Ferry. Who am I?
Frederick Douglass
William T. Sherman
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Among my most memorable accomplishments, I would "make Georgia howl" with my march to Savannah marking the first use of "total war" in American history. Who am I?
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses Grant
William Sherman
George Meade
A strong African-American abolitionist, I would later support Civil Rights and would become among the most famous abolitionist of the era. Who am I?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Robert Smalls
William Lloyd Garrison
A Northern Democrat, I engaged Lincoln in series of debates in 1858 in which I defended my position of popular sovereignty. I would later run for president in 1860 and lose. Who am I?
John Pope
John Breckinridge
Alexander Hamilton
Stephen Douglas
The publisher of The Liberator, I would be a vocal and provocative speaker for abolitionism. I would also recruit other future abolitionist to the abolitionist cause, such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. Who am I?
William Seward
William Lloyd Garrison
Edward Stanton
Abraham Lincoln
Secession is the idea that state can do what?
Join the Union
Inherit powers form the Federal Government
Leave the Union
Have its own military
The Middle Passage, which transported African enslaved people the Americas, was a part of what trade?
Circular Trade
Square Deal
Linear Trade
Triangle Trade
An agricultural product that is grown only for profit is known as a what?
Green Back
Moneybender
Cash Crop
Green Gold
All of the follow crops were grown by Southern plantations except which of the following?
Rice
Indigo
Cotton
Wheat
Abolitionism is the movement to end what?
Slavery
Racism
Imprisonment
Industrialization
The Cotton Gin helped expand what major industry in the South during the early 1800s?
Wheat
Cotton
Rice
Tobacco
The large farms in the South that relied on enslaved labor and usually grew cash crops are known as what?
Villa
Plantation
Village
Manufactory
The American Colonization Society, which advocated for the resettlement of freed enslaved people back to Africa and compensation for slave owners, was an example of what type of Abolitionism in the United States?
Colonist
Immediate
Gradual
Temporary
Habeas Corpus is the Civil Liberty that requires that people be given an explanation for being what?
Arrested
Searched
Summoned for Jury Duty
Taxed
In the United States, states that abolished slavery prior to the Civil War were known as what states?
Abolitionist
Free Soil
Charterist
Free
A total war is a war that views what two things as valid targets during wartime?
Civilians
Airplanes
Non-Military Resources
Wild Animals
Many abolitionist cam from what major region in the United States?
Northeast
Southeast
Northwest
Center
Conscription is when people are forced to serve in what?
Marching Band
Jury Duty
Armed Forces
Airplane Company
All of the following were parts of the Missouri Compromise except what?
Ban Domestic Slave Trade
Maine entered the Union as a Free State
Ban on Slavery in Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30° parallel
Missouri entered the Union as a Slave State
The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1858 would eventually lead to what major crisis?
Kansas-Missouri War of 1858
The Assassination of James Buchanan
Bleeding Nebraska
Bleeding Kansas
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required Northerners to return what to the South?
Child Hostages
Southern Criminals
Any suspected run-away enslaved person
Stolen Cotton
The idea that the white settlers of a territory could decide whether to allow or ban slavery in their state was known as what?
White Man's Burden
Popular Sovereignty
Free Sovereignty
Freedom and Votes
Who won the presidential election in 1860
Stephen Douglas
Sheev Palpatine
John Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln
In 1859, John Brown led a raid on what federal armor that would lead to his execution?
Carlisle
Leesburg
Harpers Ferry
Baltimore
The core question of the Dred Scott V. Sandford case was what simple legal idea?
Once Free, Always Free
State's Rights
Nullification
Once Enslaved, Always Enslaved
All of the following were a part of the Compromise of 1850 except what?
Promise to Declare War on Canada in 5 years
California enters the United States as a Free State
Popular Sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah territories
Passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
What major court case ruled that African-Americans were not citizens of the United States?
Plessy V. Ferguson
Brown V. Board of Education
Scott V. Sandford
Nixon V. United States
The main cause of the American Civil War was what?
State's Rights
Economics
Slavery
Federal Centralization
Prior to the Civil War, many soldiers were employed as what?
Farmers
Mechanics
Musicians
Factory Workers
The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to what part of the United States?
All States
All New States
States in Rebellion
Across the United States
While the United States had an overwhelming advantage in the Civil War the Confederacy's only advantage at the start of the war was in what?
Food Production
Manpower
Cotton Production
Terrain
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln suspended what major civil liberty?
Habeas Corpus
Right to Privacy
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Assembly
What major party split in the presidential election of 1860?
Communist
Democratic
Republican
Whig
The Attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of what war?
World War I
War of 1812
Civil War
Spanish-American War
One of the major turning points of the Civil War was what major Union victory?
Shiloh
Missionary Ridge
Petersburg
Gettysburg
What military action during the Civil War would be the first instance of "Total War" in American history?
Morgan's Raid
Overland Campaign
Sherman's March to the Sea
Peninsula Campaign
What major Union victory marked the turning point in the Western Theater of the Civil War?
Chattanooga
Fort Donelson
Shiloh
Vicksburg
