WorksheetsCauses of the American Civil War
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Before the Missouri Compromise (1820) were there more slave states, or free states in the Union?
More Slave States
More Free States
There was an equal number of slave and free states, 11 each in the year 1819.
Which of the following were part of the Compromise of 1850?
California was admitted to the Union as a free state
Popular sovereignty was allowed in Utah & New Mexico Territories
Slave trading was ended in Washington D.C.
Stronger fugitive slave law was passed and enforced
True or false. No other book in American history had as large of a political impact as Uncle Tom's Cabin...
True
False
Which of the following best defines popular sovereignty?
Popular sovereignty is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (rule by the people).
The idea that the President should decide on slavery in the territories
The principle that geography should determine which states are slave or free.
What happened in the Kansas & Nebraska Territories when popular sovereignty was used to determine whether these lands would be slave or free?
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates reached a compromise
"Bleeding Kansas" as violence erupted between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book about it
Stephen Douglass used the territories to get more votes for his Presidential Campaign
What Claim Did Dred Scott Sue With?
Slavery Is Illegal
Since He Had Once Lived In An Anti-Slavery Area He Would Always Be Free
No One Should be a Slave or Own Slaves.
People with Slaves Should be Prosecuted
The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to
end fighting between Midwestern farmers and native American Indians
increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections
encourage manufacturing in the west
settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories
What was Nat Turner Job on the Plantation
Field Worker
House Worker
Preacher
Overseer of other Slaves
What did John Brown do?
attacked a fort trying to get weapons
burned the white house
captured slaves
wrote books about slavery
He led a violent slave rebellion through Virginia:
Nat Turner
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman
Nat King Cole
Which statement best explains how the Second Great Awakening influenced change in American society?
It encouraged Southerners to assert their rights by seceding.
It inspired the growth of social reform movements.
It led to the industrialization of northern cities
It encouraged Southerners to assert their rights by seceding.
Who won the election of 1860 causing southern states to begin seceding (leaving) from the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Johnson
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
What issue divided the democratic party during the election of 1860?
Slavery
Taxes
Manifest Destiny
Foreign Policy
Was a slave until he ran away. Wrote an anti-slavery paper called the "North Star" and gave speeches about his experience in slavery.
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Levi Coffin
William Still
