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Pre-Civil War

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A well-known abolitionist who was willing to use violence to end slavery and was hanged for treason.

a)

James Lane

b)

Samuel Jones

c)

Andrew Reeder

d)

John Brown

2.

The Underground Railroad was:

a)

a network of safe houses that helped slaves escape.

b)

the first railroad to be built across the continental United States.

c)

a company run by slave owners wanting to move to Kansas Territory.

d)

Destroyed during the Wakarusa War.

3.

Kansas Territory got the name "Bleeding Kansas" because:

a)

there were no doctors in the territory.

b)

"Beecher Bibles" were shipped into the territory.

c)

a national attention focused on the violence over slavery.

d)

the rivers were dry with red dirt.

4.
Abolitionist _______, raided a federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in the hope of starting a slave rebellion.
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
John Brown
d)

Nat Turner

5.
The Dred Scott Decision stated_____________
a)
All men are created equal.
b)
Slaves are free.
c)
Slaves are property.
d)
Slaves could not meet in groups.
6.
Which came first?
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
d)
The South seceding
7.
I wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
a)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
b)
Sara Grimke
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Laura Eastman
8.
I ran against Lincoln for senator in 1858 and I won.
a)
Levi Coffin
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)
Stephan A. Douglass
9.
The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?
a)
Nevada
b)
Kansas
c)
Missouri
d)
California
10.

The group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61.

a)

The Union

b)

The Confederate States of America

11.

The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.

a)

Disobedient

b)

Secession

c)

Tariff

12.
"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state. All states North of the 36th parallel would be free states and all the South slave states.
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
secession
13.
Attempted to compromise by passing the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and allowing Popular Sovereignty.
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
secession
14.
(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.
a)
Dred Scott Case
b)
Fugitive Slave Act
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
15.

Dred Scott was a slave who

a)

Sued for his freedom

b)

Led a slave revolt

c)

Wrote a popular slave narrative

d)

Served as an advisor to Lincoln

16.
What is an abolitionist?
a)
Someone who is against slavery
b)
Someone who is for slavery
c)
A confederate soldier
d)
A Union soldier
17.

This individual sued his slave owner for his freedom but lost his case as was declared a slave for life.

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Dred Scott

d)

Nat Turner

18.

What was the basis of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

a)

That slavery was taking away from American pride.

b)

That African Americans' rights were protected by the Constitution.

c)

That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens.

d)

That slavery should be abolished immediately.

19.
Pick the candidates that were BOTH in the 1860 election
a)
Stephen Douglas, John Calhoun
b)
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas
c)
Stephen Douglas, Alexander Hamilton
d)
Abraham Lincoln, John Brown
20.
Which of these people ran for the Republican Party?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Stephen A. Douglas
c)
John Breckinridge