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Events that led to the Civil War

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This was written to expose the horrors of enslavement.

a)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Dred Scott decsion

2.

The South hated this tax on raw materials and manufactured goods because they felt it favored the north.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Tariff of 1828

d)

Southern tax

3.

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.

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Kansas- Nebraska Act

d)

Bleeding Kansas

4.

This person led a raid in Harpers Ferry, VA. He hoped to arm both white and black abolitionists. He was arrested and executed.

(a)  

5.

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)  

6.

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.

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Bleeding Kansas

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Nat Turners Rebellion

7.

He became a prominent Republican figure after this sentorial election in Illinois. These debates boosted the Reputation of this man.

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Stephen Douglas

8.

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)  

9.

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.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Bleeding Kansas

10.

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.

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Kansas Nebraska Act

d)

Secession of South Carolina

11.

South Carolina leguslature met for a special session arguing that a state could choose to enter a union it could also choose to leave .

a)

Secession

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Bleeding Kansas

d)

None of the above

12.

The Compromise of 1850 added California as a (a)   state.

13.
  • This Led to the Nullification of 1832- South Carolina declared this tariff null and void (not valid)and threatened to leave the Union(US).

a)

Tariff of Abominations

b)

Southern Tax

c)

Bleeding Kansas

d)

all of the above

14.

Which of the following is in the correct chronological order?

a)

Missouri Compromise, John Brown’s raid, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott decision

b)

Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott decision, John Brown’s raid

c)

Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott decision, Compromise of 1850, John Brown’s raid

d)

Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott decision, John Brown’s raid, Compromise of 1850

15.

The events listed below all contributed to...

•Compromise of 150

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

*Bleeding Kansas

*Raid on Harpers Ferry

• Dred Scott decision

a)

outbreak of the Civil War

b)

formation of the policy of Manifest Destiny

c)

passage of the Missouri Compromise

d)

annexation of Texas