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WorksheetsUnderground Railroad & Civil War
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 17mins
Owning someone as a slave
conductors
slavery
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
people who want to get rid of slavery forever
Underground Railroad
conductors
slavery
abolitionist
secret places that slaves could hide in as they were running away
Emancipation Proclamation
fugitives
Underground Railroad
conductors
People that helped lead escaped slaves to freedom
fugitives
prejudice
conductors
slavery
slaves escaping to freedom through the underground railroad
Emancipation Proclamation
passengers
conductors
fugitives
made it illegal to help slaves
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
passengers
Emancipation Proclamation
Fugitive Slave Act
What is a station?
A safe place to stop
Another name for a slave
A secret route
An abolitionist
Who is one of the most well-known abolitionists who escaped slavery themselves when they were young?
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Levi Coffin
Harriet Tubman
True or False: Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was about how slavery benefitted America.
True
False
The Civil War was fought because the North and the South had different opinions about ____________________.
land
power
money
slavery
True or False: The South won the Civil War.
True
False
Which of the following statements is true?
The North was also known as the Union and the Yankees and the South was also known as the Confederacy and the Rebels.
The North was also known as the Confederacy and the Yankees and the South was also known as the Union and the Rebels.
The North was also known as the Union and the Rebels and the South was also known as the Confederacy and the Yankees.
The North was also known as the Confederacy and the Rebels and the South was also known as the Union and the Yankees.
This word means to formally withdraw or leave
abolish
depart
secede
I'm out
Which was NOT a reason for the Civil War beginning?
Abraham Lincoln was elected
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Star Spangled Banner was written
South Carolina seceded
Which of the following was NOT a reason Ohio was so involved in the Underground Railroad?
Ohio bordered two slave states: Kentucky and Virginia
Ohio was not far from Canada
Ohio had many trees to hide in.
Ohio had 3 men: John Rankin, John Parker, and Levi Coffin who helped people on the Underground RR
The southern slave states that all seceded from the Union were called the _________________
The Blue Men
Confederate States of America
The Union
The Southern Army
Which one of the following was an abolitionist from Ohio who helped slaves on the Underground Railroad?
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
John Rankin
The Confederate Army attacked ______________ and this started the Civil War.
Ft. Greenville
Appomattox Court House
Ft. Sumter
Washington, DC
Harriet Tubman can be described as
courageous and lazy
mean and brave
courageous and hard-working
diligent and lazy
Which of the following is NOT an example of how the Underground Railroad was secretive?
Fugitives traveled by night.
Runaway slaves were hidden in homes.
Each station only knew the station before and after it.
Harriet Tubman let scared slaves return to their owners.
It can be said that Harriet Tubman, "never lost a passenger.
What does this mean?
She never got lost.
She collected money from everyone who traveled with her.
She guided all of the slaves following her to freedom.
None of her slaves ever got lost in the dark.
After his election, this president went on to end slavery.
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
This person was elected because his views on slaves and states' rights was the same as the South.
Jefferson Davis
James Madison
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
What was the cause for the Southern states to secede?
Lincoln's election of 1860
They didn't like the clothes the North wore
The North was taking all of the slaves from the South because they needed help farming
What was the reason taking sides was hard for the people in border states?
The states allowed slavery, but wanted to remain in the union.
They didn't like the South
They were abolitionists
They formed their own country
What was the effect of having large plantations and little help in the South?
Less slavery
Less money
More slavery
Southerners leaving the south
What did the South fear with Lincoln's election?
He would increase the amount of slavery used
He would keep the North and South separated
He would abolish slavery
None of the above
The Kansas-Nebraska Act made it possible for...
states to vote to be free states or slave states
the Southern states abolish slavery
slavery to be outlawed in any new states formed in the West
Dred Scott to be freed
A Civil War is a war between two factions (or groups) within the same country.
True
False
In what years did the Civil War take place?
1900's
1861-1865
2011-2015
1456-1478
How long did the Civil War last?
4 years
12 years
a couple of months
3 days
