WorksheetsEvents that led to the Civil War
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 27mins
This was written to expose the horrors of enslavement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott decsion
The South hated this tax on raw materials and manufactured goods because they felt it favored the north.
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Tariff of 1828
Southern tax
This divided the Slave and Free States of the Louisianna Purchase. Any territory North of the 36 30 line would be free. South of it was slave states.
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
This person led a raid in Harpers Ferry, VA. He hoped to arm both white and black abolitionists. He was arrested and executed.
(a)
This person sued for his family's freedom making the arugment that they were free after having lived in a free state. Court ruled he did not have the right to sue becasue he was legally considered property. The Supreme Court said legislation limiting slavery was unconstitutional.
(a)
Border Ruffianas from slave states crossed into Kansas and voted illegally to make Kansas a slave state. 2 governments formed in Kansas and fighting broke out. Hundreds of people were killed.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Compromise of 1850
Nat Turners Rebellion
He became a prominent Republican figure after this sentorial election in Illinois. These debates boosted the Reputation of this man.
Dred Scott
Abraham Lincoln
Nat Turner
Stephen Douglas
He was an enslaved person who led a slave rebellion in VA, which scared Southern Plantation owners. After his rebellion, Southern laws on the enslaved were even tougher.
(a)
This act made the Missouri Compromise obsolete(not valid) by allowing popular sovereignty and allowing the people living in the new states to determine the slavery issue. This had to do with whether or not Kansas and Nebraska would be admitted as free or slave states.
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
When California applied to the Union as a free state, Southern states threatend to secede which led to this compromise that made strict fugitive slave laws.
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
Secession of South Carolina
South Carolina leguslature met for a special session arguing that a state could choose to enter a union it could also choose to leave .
Secession
Compromise of 1850
Bleeding Kansas
None of the above
The Compromise of 1850 added California as a (a) state.
This Led to the Nullification of 1832- South Carolina declared this tariff null and void (not valid)and threatened to leave the Union(US).
Tariff of Abominations
Southern Tax
Bleeding Kansas
all of the above
Which of the following is in the correct chronological order?
Missouri Compromise, John Brown’s raid, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott decision
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott decision, John Brown’s raid
Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott decision, Compromise of 1850, John Brown’s raid
Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott decision, John Brown’s raid, Compromise of 1850
The events listed below all contributed to...
•Compromise of 150
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
*Bleeding Kansas
*Raid on Harpers Ferry
• Dred Scott decision
outbreak of the Civil War
formation of the policy of Manifest Destiny
passage of the Missouri Compromise
annexation of Texas
