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Name: Class: Chapter 14 Review Sheet
Matching
A. Martin Van
Buren
B. Popular
Sovereignty
C. Dred Scott
Decision
D. John Borwn
E. Frederick
Douglass
F. Harriett
Tubman
G. Harriet
Beecher
Stowe
K. Virginia
H. Fugitive
Slave Act
I. Jefferson
J. South
L. Abraham
Davis
Carolina
Lincoln
_____ A former president who ran as the first candidate of the Free Soil Party.
_____ A process that allows people in a territory or state to vote directly on issues
rather than have their elected representatives decide..
_____ A controversial Supreme Court case that angered abolitionists by declaring that
slaves were not citizens and could not claim their freedom even in Northern states.
_____ A fanatical American abolitionist, he led an armed band that seized the federal
arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA, hoping to set off a general slave revolt.
_____ A leading 19c African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and
founded and edited The North Star.
_____ This statement offered by Stephen Douglas provided territories with a plan to
prevent the immigration of slaveholders into the western territories.
_____ Chosen by the South as president of its new Nation
_____ This abolitionist and escaped slave, nicknamed the "Black Moses", conducted
hundreds of slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
_____ Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
_____ Person who was elected President in 1860, which led the South to secede
_____ Forced Northerners to return slaves to South
_____ First state to succeed from the Union
_____ State that southern leaders met to from a new nation.
1 Name: Class: Multiple Choice
1. The American Civil War was fought by____________________.
A. the North and the South
B. the East and the West
C. England and America
D. Lincoln and Washington
2. Southerners thought Congress should protect __________________________.
A. their borders
B. their right to own slaves
C. cotton mills
3. Plantations couldn’t be run without________________________.
A. imported cotton
B. electricity
C. slave labor
D. the Constitution
4. The North fought to preserve__________________________.
A. the Confederacy
B. the Union
C. goodwill
D. the family unit
5. Abolitionists in the North were opposed to______________________.
A. exporting cotton
B. westward expansion
C. television
D. slavery
6. Which of the following was NOT a direct cause of the Civil War.
A. Union troops attacked Confederate forts in South Carolina
B. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860
C. Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter.
7. The Civil War began soon after ______________________.
A. several states seceded
B. the Battle of Bull Run
C. cotton growers
D. Jefferson Davis
2 Name: Class: Circle the answer that best completes each blank.
Sometimes called the War Between the States, the Civil War was fought along
geographic lines: Northern states versus the Southern. The main issue was
______(tobacco, slavery). The ____(North, South) needed slaves to run its large farms
called______(fields, plantations). By contrast, life was very different in the
______(North, South), which was an industrialized region growing rapidly. In short, the
North and the South had different ______(cultures, crops), different economies and a
different way of life. Slowly, the two regions were growing further and further apart. In
the North,______(abolitionists, growers) demanded an end to slavery. This made
Southerners feel threatened. But what really brought the issue of slavery to a head
was______(poor timing, westward expansion). Would the new states and territories be
slave states or ______(free, voting) states? The passage of the ______(Emancipation
Proclamation, Kansas-Nebraska Act) in 1854 gave the citizens of the new territories of
Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide by ______(fighting, voting) whether of not to
allow slavery.
Settlers on both sides of the issue rushed west to try to establish their way of life on the
frontier. Kansas came to be known as ______(“Bleeding”, “Cyclone”) Kansas because
these two sides fought each other to gain control. The result was much
______(goodwill, hatred) and bitterness.
Fill in Blank/Essay
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures by which Congress attempted to
resolve the intensified conflict over slavery following the war with Mexico. List the 4
measures. (see page 505)
(1)___________________________________________________________________
(2)___________________________________________________________________
(3)___________________________________________________________________
(4)___________________________________________________________________
What impact did Harriet B. Stowe’s book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” have on the Civil
War?
3 Name: Class: What were the points made for the Dred Scott Case?
(1)___________________________________________________________________
(2)___________________________________________________________________
(3)___________________________________________________________________
What was the significance of the Dred Scott Case?
Describe the process of the election of 1860. How did the South react to Abraham
Lincoln’s election as President in 1860? (see page 505)
Name and describe five events that led to Civil war (see page 505)
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