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Quiz 1: Civil War Causes

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the primary reason Dred Scott was denied freedom by the Supreme Court?

a)

He was never enslaved

b)

He escaped to Canada

c)

He was not considered a citizen and had no right to sue

d)

He refused to testify

2.

What was the main argument of the dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott decision?

a)

Slavery was illegal in all states

b)

The Constitution should not be followed

c)

African Americans should be allowed to vote

d)

Dred Scott had the right to sue as a freeman

3.

Which event did the Dred Scott decision declare unconstitutional?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Missouri Compromise

4.

What is sectionalism?

a)

Loyalty to a political party

b)

Loyalty to a specific region over the nation

c)

Support for foreign countries

d)

A military alliance

5.

What was the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

It ended slavery in all states

b)

It allowed California to enter as a slave state

c)

It allowed popular sovereignty to decide slavery

d)

It enforced the Fugitive Slave Law

6.

What caused 'Bleeding Kansas'?

a)

Economic depression

b)

Fighting over slavery during elections

c)

A natural disaster

d)

Attacks by Native Americans

7.

What did abolitionists believe?

a)

Slavery was necessary for the economy

b)

Slavery should be expanded

c)

Slavery was morally wrong and should be abolished

d)

Slaves should be taxed

8.

What was the immediate cause of the Civil War?

a)

Disagreement over tariffs

b)

The Dred Scott decision

c)

States’ right to secede from the Union

d)

Election of Andrew Jackson

9.

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

a)

To give the North more power

b)

To stop westward expansion

c)

To balance free and slave states

d)

To ban all slavery

10.

What is an abolitionist?

a)

A person who was against slavery

b)

A person who was in favor of slavery

c)

A person who favored state's rights

d)

A person who voted for Jefferson Davis

11.

Who was Jefferson Davis?

a)

A famous abolitionist?

b)

The 16th president of the United States

c)

The president of the Confederacy

d)

Abe Lincoln's vice president

12.

What does Antebellum refer to?

a)

A new kind of warfare

b)

A type of southern music

c)

States that were neither Union nor Confederate

d)

Southern culture before the American Civil War

13.

Who was Harriet Tubman?

a)

An underground railroad conductor who lived in Canada

b)

A famous planation owner that did not own slaves

c)

A former enslaved woman who risked her life to help others to freedom

d)

The founder of the Underground Railroad

14.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

A secret amusement park that only allowed white people

b)

A railroad that only ran at night

c)

A type of language used by enslaved people

d)

A system of safe houses that escaping people could use on their journey to freedom

15.

Who was Dred Scott?

a)

A pirate

b)

An enslaved man who sued for his freedom

c)

A former enslaved man who wrote a book about his plantation experiences

d)

The president of the Confederacy

16.

Who were the primary generals of the American Civil War?

a)

Lee (Confederate) and Grant (Union)

b)

Grant (Confederate) and Lee (Union)

c)

Davis (Confederate) and Lincoln (Union)

d)

Douglass (Union) and Tubman (Confederate)

17.

What state (s) prompted the Compromise of 1850?

a)

Nebraska

b)

Kansas

c)

Missouri

d)

California

18.

What is popular sovereignty?

a)

The ability of state residents to vote for the laws they want in their state

b)

A government ruled by a king

c)

When a state decides to separate from a country

d)

A new kind of war strategy used by the South

19.

What does secede mean?

a)

To win a battle

b)

To separate from a whole as the southern states did from the Union

c)

To killa president who is unarmed

d)

It is the opposite of compromise

20.

Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

a)

Maryland

b)

South Carolina

c)

Mississippi

d)

Florida

21.

What was the last factor that caused SC to secede from the Union?

a)

Lincoln was elected president

b)

The Fugitive Slave Act

c)

The Dred Scott Case

d)

The Compromise of 1850

22.

A new kind of bullet that was more accurate and allowed soldiers to shoot from a distance was called

a)

Ballistic Missile

b)

Sovereignty

c)

Minie Balls

d)

Bouncing Bettys

23.

Two things that came out of the Compromise of 1850 that favored the North were:

a)

The fugitive slave act and California became a free state

b)

California became a free state and Kansas started to bleed

c)

DC could no longer sell humans and CA was a free state

d)

State's Rights and The Fugitive Slave Act

24.

Two things that came out of the Compromise of 1850 that favored the South were:

a)

The Fugitive Slave Act and popular sovereignty for new states

b)

The Fugitive Slave Act and Maine is a free state

c)

The Dred Scott Decision and Fort Sumter

d)

Fort Sumter and the secession of 11 states

25.

This court decision stated that no one of African descent could be considered a United States citizen.

a)

Lincoln-Douglas

b)

Dred Scott

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

The Missouri Compromise

26.

Why did people start moving to Kansas?

a)

They wanted to meet Auntie Em

b)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act permitted popular sovereignty and people wanted to affect the outcome of the vote

c)

Jefferson Davis was holding a political rally there

d)

The Lincoln-Douglas debates were held there

27.

What are two events that led to "Bleeding Kansas"?

a)

The Dred Scott decision and Fugitive Slave Act

b)

The Annexation of Texas and Florida Acquisition

c)

The destruction of Lawrence, KS and John Brown raid

d)

The assassination of Lincoln and election of Andrew Jackson

28.

What battle was the first of the American Civil War?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Antietam

c)

South Mountain

d)

Fort Sumter