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Manifest Destiny, Abolition, Reform & Civil War Causes

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invaded the Harper's Ferry arsenal to end slavery through violence?

a)

William T. Sherman

b)

John Brown

c)

John Calhoun

d)

Henry David Thoreau

2.

Who fought to provide asylums for the mentally ill in the 1800s?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Abigail Adams

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3.

Which event was one cause of the U.S.-Mexican War?

a)

The US banned slavery in territories acquired from Mexico

b)

The U.S. Congress debated statehood for New Mexico

c)

The United States acquired the Mexican Cession

d)

U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought over disputed territory north of the Rio Grande

4.

What maintained the balance between the number of free states and slave states in the Senate?

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Sectionalism

c)

McCulloch vs Maryland

d)

Compromise of 1850

5.

Which of the following was against the expansion of slavery into the western territories?

a)

Democratic Party

b)

The Confederacy

c)

South Carolina

d)

Republican Party

6.

Which of the following were the Causes of the Civil War? (Select ALL that apply)

a)

States' Right

b)

Tariffs

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Slavery

7.

Who organized the 1st Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls to fight for women's suffrage?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Mercy Otis Warren

d)

Susan B. Anthony

8.

Which religious movement promoted the end of slavery?

a)

Transcendentalism

b)

Temperance Movement

c)

Second Great Awakening

d)

Era of Good Feelings

9.

What is being described by this image?

a)

Early Spanish explorers

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

European immigration

d)

The Civil War

10.

Which Federal law forced all Americans to help capture runaway slaves & return them to their masters?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Quartering Act

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Navigation Act

11.

Which of the following describe the West?

a)

Cultural Diversity & Plentiful Land

b)

Rocky Soil & Shipping

c)

Cold Climate & Manufacturing

d)

Plantations & Warm Climate

12.

This image applies to which of the following?

a)

Temperance Movement

b)

Henry David Thoreau

c)

John James Audubon

d)

Hudson River School

13.

Which Supreme Court case ruled that slaves are property & allowed slavery to spread to the territories?

a)

Marbury vs Madison

b)

McCulloch vs Maryland

c)

Dred Scott vs Sanford

d)

Worcester vs Georgia

14.

"This government cannot endure permanently, half-slave & half-free. A house divided against itself cannot stand."

a)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

b)

Gettysburg Address

c)

Jefferson Davis' Inaugural Address

d)

Washington's Farewell Address

15.

Why did Congress honor this woman by putting her on a coin?

a)

Because she was an influential First Lady

b)

Because she designed the nation’s first flag

c)

Because she fought for women’s suffrage

d)

Because she was the first woman elected to Congress

16.

Which immigrant group moved to the US to escape a Potato Famine?

a)

German

b)

Chinese

c)

Irish

d)

French

17.

The US bought the Southern parts of Arizona & New Mexico for $10 million in the -

a)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

b)

Mexican Cession

c)

Oregon Treaty

d)

Gadsden Purchase

18.

What was the effect of the California Gold Rush?

a)

Most 49ers became wealthy

b)

California's population boomed & it became the 31st state

c)

California's property value decreased

d)

California gained land south of the 49th Parallel

19.

The US & Britain signed a treaty where the US would keep Oregon Territory -

a)

north of the 48th Parallel

b)

in the Mexican Cession

c)

in Canada

d)

south of the 49th Parallel

20.

The US bought the Mexican Cession lands for $15 million from Mexico in the -

a)

Oregon Treaty

b)

Texas Annexation

c)

Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo

d)

Louisiana Purchase

21.

Who was the Manifest Destiny President who declared war on Mexico?

a)

Martin van Buren

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Benjamin Harrison

d)

James K. Polk

22.

In what year was Texas annexed to the US?

a)

1845

b)

1836

c)

1853

d)

1848

23.

What was the impact of the Treaty of Velasco?

a)

Texas was recognized as an independent Republic

b)

The US bought western lands from Mexico for $15 million

c)

It ended the Mexican-American War

d)

The US gained Spanish Florida

24.

What was the effect of the Battle of the Alamo?

a)

The Texans surrendered to Santa Anna

b)

The death of the Alamo defenders motivated Texans to keep fighting

c)

The Texans won their independence from Mexico

d)

Santa Anna's troops retreated to Mexico

25.

Who was behind the 19th Century effort to provide free education in public schools for every child in the U.S.?

a)

Dorothea Dix

b)

Horace Mann

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Jefferson Davis

26.

Who was a runaway slave that started an abolitionist newspaper called the North Star?

a)

John Brown

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Frederick Douglass

27.

Which of the following is BEST associated with this image?

a)

John James Audubon

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

John Calhoun

d)

Hudson River School

28.

Which of the following BEST explains the contributions of Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

a)

Former slave who became legendary for her dramatic speeches

b)

Former slave who conducted the Underground Railroad

c)

Women’s rights leader who organized the Seneca Falls Convention

d)

Transcendentalist who wrote “Women in the Nineteenth Century”

29.

What was the network of abolitionists that arranged transportation & hiding places for runaway slaves?

a)

Freedom Road

b)

Reform Era

c)

The Liberator

d)

Underground Railroad

30.

Henry David Thoreau's refusal to pay taxes to fund the spread of slavery is an example of -

a)

Revolution

b)

Civil Disobedience

c)

Rebellion

d)

Depraved Indifference

31.

Americans began questioning whether, or not slavery was a moral practice after they read -

a)

Common Sense

b)

Federalist Papers

c)

Hunger Games

d)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

32.

Violence broke out between abolitionists & pro-slavery settlers in which event?

a)

The Nullification Crisis

b)

The passing of the Fugitive Slave Act

c)

The admission of California as a free state

d)

Bleeding Kansas

33.

Which Congressional law violated the Missouri Compromise?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Fugitive Slave Act

c)

Compromise Of 1850

d)

Mexican Cession

34.

In the 1800s, both Slaves & Free Blacks were not allowed to -

a)

carry weapons

b)

attend public school

c)

vote, or testify in court

d)

learn to read & write

35.

California became a Free State & the Slave Trade in Washington, D.C. ended in the -

a)

Compromise Of 1850

b)

Great Compromise

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Reform Era