WorksheetsUnit 8 Chapter 16 Test
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Republican Party was formed by antislavery Whigs and Democrats.
a)
A.TRUE
b)
B.FALSE
2.
When the United States added new territory in the 1840s, ____.
a)
A.the railroads were expanded
b)
B.the debate over slavery started again
c)
C.land was given to Native Americans
d)
D.it was immediately made a state in the Union
3.
An issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of ____.
a)
A.California
b)
B.Missouri
c)
C.Texas
d)
D.Kansas
4.
Texas became a state following the Mexican War.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
Southerners did not support the Wilmot Proviso because it ____.
a)
A.banned secession by any state
b)
B.banned slavery in northern states
c)
C.banned slavery in all the states
d)
D.banned slavery in lands acquired from Mexico
6.
Stephen A. Douglas's plan to let each territory vote on slavery was called ____.
a)
A.popular choice
b)
B.territorial sovereignty
c)
C.electoral choice
d)
D.popular sovereignty
7.
The Free-Soil Party was established in 1848 because ____.
a)
A.land prices were becoming too high
b)
B.Zachary Taylor won the election
c)
C.presidential candidates did not address slavery
d)
D.most people were farmers
8.
As part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
According to which law could a person be fined or imprisoned for helping a runaway slave?
a)
A.Southern Slave Act
b)
B.Owners-Right Act
c)
C.Runaway Slave Act
d)
D.Fugitive Slave Act
10.
In 1853, Franklin Pierce became ____.
a)
A.editor of The Liberator
b)
B.a U.S. senator
c)
C.U.S. secretary of state
d)
D.president of the United States
11.
Armed pro-slavery supporters who crossed the border from Missouri to vote were called Kansas Crusaders.
a)
True
b)
False
12.
In 1860 the Republican candidate for president was ___
a)
A.John Bell
b)
B.John Breckinridge
c)
C.Stephen A. Douglas
d)
D.Abraham Lincoln
13.
Which was the first state to secede?
a)
A.Texas
b)
B.Alabama
c)
C.North Carolina
d)
D.South Carolina
14.
Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky wanted to amend the Constitution to make slavery legal south of 36�30'N latitude.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
Whom did the delegates from the Confederate States of America choose as their president?
a)
A.Robert E. Lee
b)
B.Francis Pickens
c)
C.Abner Doubleday
d)
D.Jefferson Davis
16.
Southerners justified secession with the theory of ____.
a)
A.civil rights
b)
B.states' rights
c)
C.equality for all men
d)
D.international law
17.
Most Northerners believed that the Union had to be preserved.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
In December 1860, President Buchanan told Congress that he ____.
a)
A.would not run for another term as President
b)
B.had no official word about how many states had seceded
c)
C.would force the border states to remain in the Union
d)
D.had no power to stop states from seceding
19.
When Lincoln said, "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors," he meant there would be no fight unless the South started it.
a)
A.TRUE
b)
B.FALSE
20.
Lincoln responded to a message from the commander of Fort Sumter by ____.
a)
A.sending three regiments of Union soldiers
b)
B.sending a fleet of U.S. Navy ships
c)
C.sending unarmed men with supplies for the fort
d)
D.sending a letter to Jefferson Davis
21.
When Jefferson Davis ordered his forces to attack Fort Sumter, he started the Civil War.
a)
True
b)
False
22.
Who won the presidential election of 1856?
a)
A.John C. Calhoun
b)
B.Millard Fillmore
c)
C.James Buchanan
d)
D.Abraham Lincoln
23.
Who was the enslaved African American whose suit for freedom reached the U.S. Supreme Court?
a)
A.Roger Taney
b)
B.Millard Fillmore
c)
C.John Fremont
d)
D.Dred Scott
24.
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave was "property."
a)
A.TRUE
b)
B.FALSE
25.
Which Supreme Court decision divided the nation over the issue of slavery?
a)
A.Fugitive Slave case
b)
B.Clay's ruling
c)
C.Dred Scott
d)
D.John Brown v. Ohio
26.
Roger B. Taney was a senator from the state of California.
a)
A.TRUE
b)
B.FALSE
27.
Which Senate race was the center of national attention in 1858?
a)
A.Kentucky
b)
B.Indiana
c)
C.Ohio
d)
D.Illinois
28.
What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
a)
A.the presidential campaign
b)
B.war with Mexico
c)
C.the economy
d)
D.slavery
29.
John Brown believed that slavery should be illegal in all states
a)
A.TRUE
b)
B.FALSE
30.
John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal at ____.
a)
A.Washington, D.C.
b)
B.Lawrence, Kansas
c)
C.Fort Sumter, South Carolina
d)
D.Harpers Ferry, Virginia
100 %
