WorksheetsPre Civil War Review
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
To break away or withdraw, as Southern states did from the Union.
Secede
Annex
Ratify
Impeach
The Northern states that remained part of the United States during the Civil War.
Union
Confederacy
Territories
Colonies
The group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union.
Confederacy
Union
Allies
Axis
An agreement to keep the balance of free and slave states; Missouri entered as a slave state, Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act
A set of laws trying to ease tensions; included admitting California as a free state and a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
Violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas was referred to as....
Bleeding Kansas
The Missouri Compromise
The Dred Scott Decision
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
A secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Underground Railroad
Mason-Dixon Line
Emancipation Proclamation
Freedom Trail
A former enslaved woman who helped many others escape via the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Rosa Parks
Ida B. Wells
A former enslaved man who became a leading abolitionist speaker and writer.
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Booker T. Washington
* California became a free state
* Utah and New Mexico were created and given popular sovereignty
* ended the slave trade in Washington DC
* Forced a stronger Fugitive Slave Law
* Texas boundary resolved
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Emancipation Proclamation
State Taxation
What change in technology allowed business owners to sell their goods in markets across the country?
The Lowell System
The growth of railroads
The invention of the telegraph
The Arkwright System
What unsettled region of the country caused many issues based on whether or not to allow slavery?
North
South
East
West
U.S. cities experienced rapid growth in the mid-1800s as a result of:
the rise of a new middle class
new factory jobs that attracted workers
the lack of available land in the west
changes in immigration laws
The economy of the North was based on
industry
agriculture
mining
computer technology
An abolitionist is a person who
is in favor of slavery.
is in favor of going to war.
is greatly opposed to slavery.
is greatly opposed to going to war.
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 state seceded first?
Virginia
South Carolina
New York
Texas
Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.
true
false
In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court ruled that....
slavery is outlawed in America
Dred Scott was a free man
enslaved people could not go to court
freedmen had the right to vote
What does Sectionalism mean?
A loyalty to a belief in one's section/region of the U.S.
A loyalty to a belief in one's house.
An opposition to a belief in one's section/region of the U.S.
A disagreement to a living in one's section/region of the U.S.
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beacher Stowe
Robert E Lee
Fredrick Douglas
Why was the book written?
To make a lot of money
To fuel amnesty between the north and south
To start the Civil War
To help shape the public’s opinion of slavery
Who led the raid on Harpers Ferry arsenal?
Robert E. Lee
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
What did John Brown hope to achieve by his raid at Harpers Ferry?
to create a rebellion led by enslaved people that would bring an end to slavery
to bring attention to the conflict between the North and the South
to bring the two sides together to form a new compromise
to create a revolution that would lead to a war between the states
What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?
that slavery diminished the national character
that African American rights were protected by the Constitution
that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court
that slavery should be abolished by executive order
How did the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 impact Lincoln’s political future?
He won the senate race in Illinois
He became known throughout the nation
He was seen as a poor candidate for public office
He felt discouraged and removed himself from politics for a time
Events & Acts: 1859 effort to arm slaves for a rebellion by seizing the federal arsenal of weapons at Harpers Ferry
Dred Scott Decision
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown's Raid
Wilmot Proviso
People: became a national figure after a series of debates about slavery; elected President of the United States in 1860
Dred Scott
Roger Taney
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
John Brown
The series of safe houses used by escaped slaves to make it to safety in the North and Canada?
Transcontinental Railroad
Underground Railroad
Bobby Hopper Tunnel
Reading Rainbow
What does "abolish" mean?
to get rid of slavery
loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
to withdraw from the Union
What states that the people could decide on slavery (majority rule)?
Popular Sovereignty
State's Rights
Sectionalism
Compromise
