WorksheetsEvents Leading to the Civil War
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
What law drew an imaginary line across the new territories in the United States, allowing freedom in the North and slavery in the South?
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Northwest Ordinance
Harriet Beecher Stowe helped start the Civil War by writing which influential book?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Red Badge of Courage
Gone with the Wind
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a good solution to the issue of slavery because:
It allowed states to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.
It abolished slavery in all territories.
It led to the immediate end of slavery.
It was supported by all political parties.
What impact did the Dred Scott Decision have on earlier laws passed concerning the westward expansion of slavery?
It nullified earlier laws restricting slavery in the territories.
It reinforced earlier laws allowing slavery in the territories.
It had no impact on earlier laws concerning slavery.
It led to the creation of new laws supporting slavery.
South Carolina reacted to the election of Abraham Lincoln by:
Celebrating his victory
Remaining neutral
Seceding from the Union
Supporting his policies
The main reason Texas seceded from the Union was:
Economic disagreements
Slavery
Political corruption
Territorial disputes
Why did Uncle Tom's Cabin have such a large impact on abolition in the North?
Northerners saw it as a way that they better than the South
The book was pro-slavery and that made them mad.
It was the first widespread description of the real horrors of slavery.
It was written by a freed slave.
Who was elected president in 1860, in turn causing some southern states to secede?
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
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 is popular sovereignty?
the act of formally withdrawing from the Union
self-government of a state or territory by its own people
a best-selling novel about the evils of slavery
the division of the nation by sections based on sectional interests instead of the interests of the entire country
__________ was the first Southern state to secede (withdraw) from the United States of America.
South Carolina
Virginia
Kansas
