WorksheetsCFA #13
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 49mins
This law required the return of runaway slaves even in free states and affected free African-Americans as well.
Runaway and Return Act
Underground Railroad Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Southern Slave Act
Which region had an economy primarily based on agriculture and slave labor.
North
South
West
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
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Which of the following did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed all slaves in the Confederate states that were not currently under Union control.
Laid the groundwork for a future constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery.
Allowed for African American men to fight in the Union army.
All of the above
What president gave the order for the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Confederate president Jefferson Davis
Andrew Johnson
What best describes Dred Scott ?
slave who sued for his freedom
slaveowner who sued for the return of a fugitive slave
Georgia politician trying to ban slavery
Supreme Court judge making a ruling on the spread of slavery
(Please select three correct answers) In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves...
were NOT citizens of the U.S.
had NO right to sue in court.
were considered to be the property of their owner.
should all be freed immediately.
The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to
end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians
encourage manufacturing in the west
increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections
settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories
Which of the following repealed the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free
territory and instead, instituted popular sovereignty?
The Compromise of 1850
The Dred Scott v. Sanford Case
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Fugitive Slave Act
Match the economic, social or political characteristics of the regions
South
North
West
Match the economic, social or political characteristics of the regions
South
North
West
Organize these options into the right categories
Small farming
railroad workers
gold miners
slaves
plantations
Factories
Industrialization
immigrants
cotton fields
New York
Mississippi
California
(a) believed secession was justified to protect (b) , while (c) believed the (d) was permanent.
Match the following historical documents with their descriptions.
Battle of Vicksburg
Gained control of the Mississippi river
Emancipation Proclamation
This declared all slaves in the rebelling states were free in 1863.
Gettysburg Address
This was a speech by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, emphasizing the principles of human equality.
