WorksheetsManifest Destiny, Abolition, Reform & Civil War Causes
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Who invaded the Harper's Ferry arsenal to end slavery through violence?
William T. Sherman
John Brown
John Calhoun
Henry David Thoreau
Who fought to provide asylums for the mentally ill in the 1800s?
Sojourner Truth
Abigail Adams
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Which event was one cause of the U.S.-Mexican War?
The US banned slavery in territories acquired from Mexico
The U.S. Congress debated statehood for New Mexico
The United States acquired the Mexican Cession
U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought over disputed territory north of the Rio Grande
What maintained the balance between the number of free states and slave states in the Senate?
Missouri Compromise
Sectionalism
McCulloch vs Maryland
Compromise of 1850
Which of the following was against the expansion of slavery into the western territories?
Democratic Party
The Confederacy
South Carolina
Republican Party
Which of the following were the Causes of the Civil War? (Select ALL that apply)
States' Right
Tariffs
Sectionalism
Slavery
Who organized the 1st Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls to fight for women's suffrage?
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Mercy Otis Warren
Susan B. Anthony
Which religious movement promoted the end of slavery?
Transcendentalism
Temperance Movement
Second Great Awakening
Era of Good Feelings
What is being described by this image?
Early Spanish explorers
Manifest Destiny
European immigration
The Civil War
Which Federal law forced all Americans to help capture runaway slaves & return them to their masters?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Quartering Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Navigation Act
Which of the following describe the West?
Cultural Diversity & Plentiful Land
Rocky Soil & Shipping
Cold Climate & Manufacturing
Plantations & Warm Climate
This image applies to which of the following?
Temperance Movement
Henry David Thoreau
John James Audubon
Hudson River School
Which Supreme Court case ruled that slaves are property & allowed slavery to spread to the territories?
Marbury vs Madison
McCulloch vs Maryland
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Worcester vs Georgia
"This government cannot endure permanently, half-slave & half-free. A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Gettysburg Address
Jefferson Davis' Inaugural Address
Washington's Farewell Address
Why did Congress honor this woman by putting her on a coin?
Because she was an influential First Lady
Because she designed the nation’s first flag
Because she fought for women’s suffrage
Because she was the first woman elected to Congress
Which immigrant group moved to the US to escape a Potato Famine?
German
Chinese
Irish
French
The US bought the Southern parts of Arizona & New Mexico for $10 million in the -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
Oregon Treaty
Gadsden Purchase
What was the effect of the California Gold Rush?
Most 49ers became wealthy
California's population boomed & it became the 31st state
California's property value decreased
California gained land south of the 49th Parallel
The US & Britain signed a treaty where the US would keep Oregon Territory -
north of the 48th Parallel
in the Mexican Cession
in Canada
south of the 49th Parallel
The US bought the Mexican Cession lands for $15 million from Mexico in the -
Oregon Treaty
Texas Annexation
Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Louisiana Purchase
Who was the Manifest Destiny President who declared war on Mexico?
Martin van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Benjamin Harrison
James K. Polk
In what year was Texas annexed to the US?
1845
1836
1853
1848
What was the impact of the Treaty of Velasco?
Texas was recognized as an independent Republic
The US bought western lands from Mexico for $15 million
It ended the Mexican-American War
The US gained Spanish Florida
What was the effect of the Battle of the Alamo?
The Texans surrendered to Santa Anna
The death of the Alamo defenders motivated Texans to keep fighting
The Texans won their independence from Mexico
Santa Anna's troops retreated to Mexico
Who was behind the 19th Century effort to provide free education in public schools for every child in the U.S.?
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Frederick Douglass
Jefferson Davis
Who was a runaway slave that started an abolitionist newspaper called the North Star?
John Brown
Thomas Paine
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass
Which of the following is BEST associated with this image?
John James Audubon
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Calhoun
Hudson River School
Which of the following BEST explains the contributions of Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Former slave who became legendary for her dramatic speeches
Former slave who conducted the Underground Railroad
Women’s rights leader who organized the Seneca Falls Convention
Transcendentalist who wrote “Women in the Nineteenth Century”
What was the network of abolitionists that arranged transportation & hiding places for runaway slaves?
Freedom Road
Reform Era
The Liberator
Underground Railroad
Henry David Thoreau's refusal to pay taxes to fund the spread of slavery is an example of -
Revolution
Civil Disobedience
Rebellion
Depraved Indifference
Americans began questioning whether, or not slavery was a moral practice after they read -
Common Sense
Federalist Papers
Hunger Games
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Violence broke out between abolitionists & pro-slavery settlers in which event?
The Nullification Crisis
The passing of the Fugitive Slave Act
The admission of California as a free state
Bleeding Kansas
Which Congressional law violated the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise Of 1850
Mexican Cession
In the 1800s, both Slaves & Free Blacks were not allowed to -
carry weapons
attend public school
vote, or testify in court
learn to read & write
California became a Free State & the Slave Trade in Washington, D.C. ended in the -
Compromise Of 1850
Great Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Reform Era
