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WorksheetsPre-Civil War
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 24mins
A well-known abolitionist who was willing to use violence to end slavery and was hanged for treason.
James Lane
Samuel Jones
Andrew Reeder
John Brown
The Underground Railroad was:
a network of safe houses that helped slaves escape.
the first railroad to be built across the continental United States.
a company run by slave owners wanting to move to Kansas Territory.
Destroyed during the Wakarusa War.
Kansas Territory got the name "Bleeding Kansas" because:
there were no doctors in the territory.
"Beecher Bibles" were shipped into the territory.
a national attention focused on the violence over slavery.
the rivers were dry with red dirt.
Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison
The group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61.
The Union
The Confederate States of America
The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
Disobedient
Secession
Tariff
Dred Scott was a slave who
Sued for his freedom
Led a slave revolt
Wrote a popular slave narrative
Served as an advisor to Lincoln
This individual sued his slave owner for his freedom but lost his case as was declared a slave for life.
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. DuBois
Dred Scott
Nat Turner
What was the basis of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?
That slavery was taking away from American pride.
That African Americans' rights were protected by the Constitution.
That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens.
That slavery should be abolished immediately.
