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Pre-Civil War

Authored by Wendi Slone

History

5th - 6th Grade

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Pre-Civil War
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

* 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 

Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Emancipation Proclamation
State Taxation

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

* Bloody event in Congress on May 22, 1856
* Congressman from South Carolina beat a senator with a cane for insulting the South and his elderly cousin

Bleeding Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown Raid
Brook's Attack on Sumner

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Senator _______ wanted a transcontinental railroad to cross America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
George Washington

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

* Slave Owner moved to a free state
* Abolitionists argued that the slave spent time in a free state so he was entitled to his emancipation
* Chief Justice Roger B. Taney stated that no slave could claim US citizenship

General Ambrose Burnside Case
Texas vs White
Brown vs Board of Education
Scott vs. Sanford

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

* planned to capture weapons in the US arsenal
* wanted slaves to physically fight for their freedom
* radical abolitionist
* led the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
* caused deaths in Kansas at a raid known as Bleeding Kansas

Preston Brooks
John Brown
Dred Scott
General Lee

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

* Transcontinental Railroad
* Kansas and Nebraska joined as a free state
* Erased the Missouri Compromise Line (36* 30* Parallel)
* New territories had popular sovereignty

Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Scott vs Sanford

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which word means "before the war"?

prosperous
antebellum
slavery
abolitionist

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