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WorksheetsCauses of the Civil War Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 17mins
Based on the map, how did the Missouri Compromise limit slavery?
No more slave states would be permitted to join the Union.
Slavery would gradually be prohibited everywhere in the US
Slavery would be confined to areas south of the 36°30' N
There would be many more slave states than free states.
Which act banned slavery north of the 36'30 latitude?
Compromise of 1850
Three Fifths Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What compromise did Congress make to allow California to enter the Union as a free state?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Three Fifths Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
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.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Sugar Act
Homestead Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Which agreements did Congress make to settle disputes over the spread of slavery in the West?
Three-Fifths Compromise, Great Compromise, New Jersey Plan
Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty, Treaty of Paris
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act, Slave Codes, 13th Amendment
The social movement to abolish, or end, slavery was known as
the abolitionist movement
the suffrage movement
the state's rights movement
the Federalist movement
What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
Dred Scott was set free since he lived in a free state
Dred Scott was property and not a citizen
Dred Scott's owners were guilty of kidnapping and arrested
Dred Scott's owners had to pay him for his work
Which Supreme Court case said that slaves had no rights & were property in all parts of the US?
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Worcester v. Georgia
___________________ is rivalry based on special interests of different areas of the country?
nationalism
federalism
popular sovereignty
sectionalism
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Because she got bored
To promote slavery in the North
To show the evils of slavery and the injustices of the Fugitive Slave Act.
To promote the formation of the Democrat Party
What led to the violence in Kansas known as “Bleeding Kansas” in 1854-1856?
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
The rivalry between proslavery and anti settlers rushing into the new territory
It reinforced the authority of Congress to outlaw slavery in territories.
What effect did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on public opinion?
Northerners, in general, became more sympathetic toward slave owners.
Southerners, in general, began to see slavery as a moral evil.
Americans, in general, lost interest in the slavery issue.
Northerners, in general, became more opposed to slavery
Which act allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, and Maine as a free state?
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Missouri Compromise 1820
Which act brought California in as a free state, and also created Utah and New Mexico.
Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Fugitive Slave Law
What novel showed the evils of slavery and was written by Harriett Beecher Stowe?
Of Mice and Men
Fugitives
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Life of a Slave
Which slave was taken to the North, but told he could still not be free (even in a free state)?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglas
Dred Scott
To break away from a group is called
state's rights
slavery
Gettysburg
secede
Loyalty to a region
Slavery
Lincoln elected President
Tariffs
Sectionalism
Economy in the North:
Agriculture/Farming
Industries/Factories
The Confederacy -
The North
The South
The East
The West
The Union -
The North
The South
The East
The West
