WorksheetsUnit 8 Ch 16 Gallopade 4th Grade
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which difference between the North and South helped cause the Civil War?
A. There were more enslaved people in the South, and wealthy slaveowners believed their way of life would be destroyed if the federal government outlawed slavery.
B. There were more factories in the South, and many factory workers believed their way of life would be destroyed if the federal government raised taxes.
C. There were more shipping companies in the South, and boat builders believed they would not have enough business if the federal government outlawed foreign trade.
D. There were more American Indians in the South, and many farmers believed they would not have enough labor if the federal government forced the American Indians to move.
Why did southern states want to practice states’ rights so much?
A. They were concerned that the enslaved population was growing too fast too quickly.
B. They wanted to ignore any new laws against slavery that northern lawmakers might make.
C. They were concerned that new laws requiring factories in the South could hurt cotton production.
D. They wanted to ignore any new laws helping northern states that northern lawmakers might make.
What is the principle called “states’ rights”?
A. The belief that a state has to follow all federal laws.
B. The belief that a state can ignore any federal law it does not like.
C. The belief that a state can make its own laws even if citizens do not like them.
D. The belief that a state can enslave people as long as they count them in the census.
What did John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia prove about the abolition movement?
A. abolitionists were going to hold peace rallies in slave states
B. abolitionists were willing to use violence to help end slavery
C. abolitionists were willing to compromise on the issue of slavery
D. abolitionists were calling for a war between free and slave states
Why did John Brown attack a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
A. to convince the federal government to invade the South
B. to convince the southern states to secede from the Union
C. to obtain guns to use to capture escaped enslaved people
D. to obtain guns to arm enslaved people and carry out a rebellion
What was one impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A. by increasing discrimination against African Americans in the North
B. by increasing demands for the government to end slavery in all states
C. by causing the federal government to increase taxes in Southern states
D. by convincing Southerners they should not buy goods made in the North
What movement grew, in part, due to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
A. the abolition movement
B. the free speech movement
C. the environmental movement
D. the women's rights movement
A movement to end slavery in the United States.
transcendentalism
suffrage
abolition movement
temperance movement
A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A law that allowed voters in Kansa and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery.
Election of 1860
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexico Cession territory into two territories where slavery was decided by popular sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Law
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
An agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state, it also outlawed slavery north of the 36 30 latitude line
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
The idea that political power belongs to the people
limited government
republicanism
popular sovereignty
sectionalism
The antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that spoke out powerfully against slavery causing many northerners to support abolitionist.
Gone with the Wind
Underground Railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
