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WorksheetsCauses of the Civil War
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 45mins
__________________ became a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise.
Michigan
Maine
Minnesota
Missouri
The Compromise of 1850 made ___________ a free state.
California
Utah
Maine
Missouri
The most hated provision of the Compromise of 1850 for abolitionists was __________________.
California becoming a free state
The slave trade being abolished in Washington, DC
Utah and New Mexico territories being open to slavery
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Compromise of 1850 made ________________ illegal in Washington, DC
the slave trade
indentured servitude
slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by ________________.
Henry Ward Beecher
Herman Melville
Emily Dickinson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854. It allowed the people in these territories to vote on whether to allow slavery. This concept of allowing the people to choose whether their state would be free or slave was known as _______________________________.
popular sovereignty
popular independence
popular sectionalism
As a result of popular sovereignty, fighting erupted in1855 in the territory of _________________ between pro-slavery forces and settlers who opposed the spread of slavery.
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
In 1856, abolitionist Senator _____________________ was attacked and nearly beaten to death after giving a speech condemning slavery.
Preston Brooks
Charles Sumner
_______________ was a slave who sued for his freedom after living for a period of time in a free state.
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Jacobs
Dred Scott
Nat Turner
In the 1857 Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court ruled that blacks _________________________.
must move to Liberia after emancipation
were not citizens
had limited voting rights
were barred from working in federal jobs
Which abolitionist led the raid on Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Why did John Brown raid Harper's Ferry?
To stop the slave trade there
To capture weapons with which to arm slaves
To free Dred Scott
What happened to John Brown?
He escaped
He captured the weapons and began a slave revolt
He was captured and hung
He was pardoned by President Buchanan
Which political party, founded in 1854, opposed the extension of slavery into new territories?
Democrat
Federalist
Democratic-Republican
Republican
Six weeks after Lincoln's election, which state became the first to secede from the Union?
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Sectionalism
Favoring the interests of one section over the interests of the entire country
Missouri Compromise
Outlawed slavery in territories north of 36,30 latitude
Secede
To formally withdraw from the Union
Uncle Tom's Cabin
anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fugitive Slave Act
Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest slaves
in free areas.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
plan to divide remainder of Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories that would vote on slavery
John Brown's Raid
Oct 1859, took over an arsenal in Harpers
Ferry Va., in hopes of starting slave rebellion
Republican Party
political party that aimed to limit the expansion of slavery in territories and states
Dred Scott Decision
ruled that African Americans, free or slave, were not citizens and did not have any rights
Bleeding Kansas
Abolitionist and Pro Slavery groups clashed in Kansas over slavery. Many people killed.
Sectionalism
Loyalty to a certain area or interests
A type of couch ~ where everyone has their own spot
devotion to the country
pride for the entire world
What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.
It turned many more people against slavery.
Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.
The Fugitive slave law was cancelled.
The Dred Scott case made what Compromise unconstitutional.
The Compromise of 1850
The Great Compromise
The 3/5th Compromise
The Missouri Compromise
Controversial Supreme Court Case that led to all African Americans being declared noncitizens of the United States
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Marbury v. Madison
Gibbons v. Ogden
The idea that political power belongs to the people is called_____________________, and allows the people to make decisions about who will represent them in government and what laws will be established.
Popular Sovereignty
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Separation of Powers
Sectionalism occurs when people favor the interests of one section of the country over the interests of the entire country. The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act that followed ____________________________________.
increased sectional tensions in the United States
decreased sectional tensions in the United States
kept sectional tensions between the north and the south about the same
Which part of the nation would be most in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The Northern free states
The Southern slave states
California
The states in New England
What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?
The Election of Lincoln in 1860
The Dred Scott Decision
Harper's Ferry
Bleeding Kansas
People who rushed across the Kansas border to swing the vote on slavery were also known as....
runaway slaves
border ruffians
forty-niners
illegal aliens
Why did Uncle Tom's Cabin have such a large impact on abolition in the North?
Northerners saw it as a way that they better than the South
The book was pro-slavery and that made them mad.
It was the first widespread description of the real horrors of slavery.
It was written by a freed slave.
Which of the following was a promise of the newly elected President Lincoln?
He will not interfere with slavery in the South
He would not support the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
He did not believe slavery should be allowed to expand in the territories
He would free slaves everywhere in the US
What did the "gag rule" do?
It tabled any antislavery petitions in Congress
It silenced proslavery conversation in Congress
It did not allow the Missouri Compromise to pass
It stopped anti government talk in Congress
In 1861 a civil war began between the northern and southern states of the United States. A major reason for this conflict was a disagreement about-
the admission of free states into the union
the right of states to maintain the practice of slavery
the return of fugitive enslaved people to slaveholders
the extension of citizenship rights to formerly enslaved people
The economy of the south was ___________________.
Agricultural
Tourism
Technology
Industrial
The economy of the north was ___________________.
Agricultural
Tourism
Technology
Industrial
What did the southern states rename themselves?
The Union States of America
The Free States of America
The Confederate States of Mexico
The Confederate States of America
