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WorksheetsLeading to the Civil War
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who was the enslaved man who argued for his freedom because he used to live in a free state?
Dred Scott
John Brown
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Harriett Tubman
What law helped southern slaveholders get their runaway slaves back?
Fugitive Slave Act
Runaway Act
2nd Amendment
Slaveholder Law
In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court said that slaves were _________.
people
property
free
children
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an important book because -
It was about the many reasons why the South should secede from the Union
It allowed people to see slaves as real people and how they were treated with cruelty
It talked about ways slaves could escape on the Underground Railroad
It showed the differences between the North and the South
The Supreme Court ruling that declared that slaves were considered property and went wherever their owners went no matter if that was free state or a slave state.
Fugitive Slave Act
The Dred Scott Decision
Jim Crow Law
Slave Owner Rights
Some slaves were able to escape to freedom in the North thanks to the ______________________________.
Dred Scott Decision
The Compromise of 1850
Bleeding Kansas
Underground Railroad
This escaped slave, sometimes called "Moses", helped many slaves run away on the Underground Railroad.
Frederick Douglass
Isabel Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A proclamation that slavery would not exist in the newly acquired Mexican Cession.
The division of the nation by sections based on sectional interests.
Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the area north of 36° 30' latitude line.
A best-selling novel about the evils of slavery.
What did the Wilmot Proviso assert?
California was admitted as a free state.
A department was established in the government specifically for the purpose of arresting and returning fugitive slaves.
A proclamation that slavery would not exist in the newly acquired Mexican Cession.
The division of the nation by sections based on sectional interests.
What was the significance of the Dred Scott Decision?
A proclamation that slavery would not exist in the newly acquired Mexican Cession.
The division of the nation by sections based on sectional interests.
A slave sued for his freedom and the Supreme Court ruled that he could not sue since he was not considered a citizen, but property.
A best-selling novel about the evils of slavery.
What does sectionalism refer to?
The admission of California as a free state.
The division of the nation by sections based on sectional interests instead of the interests of the entire country.
A best-selling novel about the evils of slavery.
A slave suing for his freedom as a former resident of a free state.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
A proclamation that slavery would not exist in the newly acquired Mexican Cession.
California was admitted as a free state and residents of the territories of the Mexican Cession could vote on slavery.
A department was established for arresting and returning fugitive slaves.
A best-selling novel about the evils of slavery.
What was the main purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
To establish a transcontinental railroad
To allow territories to decide on the legality of slavery through popular sovereignty
To admit Kansas as a free state
To abolish slavery in all U.S. territories
Who was the abolitionist that led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
Sojourner Truth
Which event is considered the immediate cause of the Southern states' secession from the Union?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President
The Dred Scott Decision
The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Missouri Compromise
