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Causes of the Civil War Review

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 17mins

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Class
Date
1.

Based on the map, how did the Missouri Compromise limit slavery?

a)

No more slave states would be permitted to join the Union.

b)

Slavery would gradually be prohibited everywhere in the US

c)

Slavery would be confined to areas south of the 36°30' N

d)

There would be many more slave states than free states.

2.

Which act banned slavery north of the 36'30 latitude?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Three Fifths Compromise

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

3.

What compromise did Congress make to allow California to enter the Union as a free state?

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Three Fifths Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Missouri Compromise

4.

The Compromise of 1850 included which act that imposed strict laws on runaway slaves and required northerners to help find them if asked to do so.

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Fugitive Slave Act

5.

Which agreements did Congress make to settle disputes over the spread of slavery in the West?

a)

Three-Fifths Compromise, Great Compromise, New Jersey Plan

b)

Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty, Treaty of Paris

c)

Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Fugitive Slave Act, Slave Codes, 13th Amendment

6.

The social movement to abolish, or end, slavery was known as

a)

the abolitionist movement

b)

the suffrage movement

c)

the state's rights movement

d)

the Federalist movement

7.

What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

a)

Dred Scott was set free since he lived in a free state

b)

Dred Scott was property and not a citizen

c)

Dred Scott's owners were guilty of kidnapping and arrested

d)

Dred Scott's owners had to pay him for his work

8.

Which Supreme Court case said that slaves had no rights & were property in all parts of the US?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

McCulloch v. Maryland

c)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

d)

Worcester v. Georgia

9.

___________________ is rivalry based on special interests of different areas of the country?

a)

nationalism

b)

federalism

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

sectionalism

10.

Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

a)

Because she got bored

b)

To promote slavery in the North

c)

To show the evils of slavery and the injustices of the Fugitive Slave Act.

d)

To promote the formation of the Democrat Party

11.

What led to the violence in Kansas known as “Bleeding Kansas” in 1854-1856?

a)

Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

b)

The rivalry between proslavery and anti settlers rushing into the new territory

c)

It reinforced the authority of Congress to outlaw slavery in territories.

12.

What effect did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on public opinion?

a)

Northerners, in general, became more sympathetic toward slave owners.

b)

Southerners, in general, began to see slavery as a moral evil.

c)

Americans, in general, lost interest in the slavery issue.

d)

Northerners, in general, became more opposed to slavery

13.

Which act allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, and Maine as a free state?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Fugitive Slave Act

c)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

d)

Missouri Compromise 1820

14.

Which act brought California in as a free state, and also created Utah and New Mexico.

a)

Compromise of 1820

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Dred Scott Decision

d)

Fugitive Slave Law

15.

What novel showed the evils of slavery and was written by Harriett Beecher Stowe?

a)

Of Mice and Men

b)

Fugitives

c)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

d)

Life of a Slave

16.

Which slave was taken to the North, but told he could still not be free (even in a free state)?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Frederick Douglas

d)

Dred Scott

17.
Who won the Election of 1860?
a)
Ulysses S Grant
b)
Jefferson Davis
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Uncle Tom
18.
After Lincoln was elected:
a)
Southern states were happy
b)
Northern states hated him
c)
He began to establish more slave states
d)
Southern states began to secede
19.

To break away from a group is called

a)

state's rights

b)

slavery

c)

Gettysburg

d)

secede

20.
An abolitionist is  
a)
a person who fights for slavery
b)
a soldier that fights for the Confederate
c)
A person who fights against slavery
d)
a soldier that fights for the Union
21.
What did the Dred Scott decision say?
a)
It considered slaves to be property without rights.
b)
It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states
c)
It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states
d)
It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens
22.
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
c)
Jefferson Davis
d)
Abraham Lincoln
23.

Loyalty to a region

a)

Slavery

b)

Lincoln elected President

c)

Tariffs

d)

Sectionalism

24.

Economy in the North:

a)

Agriculture/Farming

b)

Industries/Factories

25.

The Confederacy -

a)

The North

b)

The South

c)

The East

d)

The West

26.

The Union -

a)

The North

b)

The South

c)

The East

d)

The West