Name ___________________________
Social Studies
Paper # _________
Date ____________
Early Causes of Civil War Self-Assessment
1. Why did the North not want to allow Missouri in the Union as a slave state in
1820? ____________________________________________________________
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2. What does it mean to secede? ______________________________________
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3. Why did northerners dislike the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
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4. What were the three parts of the Missouri Compromise?
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5. What was the original goal of the Free-Soil Party?
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6. What is popular sovereignty? _______________________________________
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7. Why did the South not want to let California enter as a free state in 1850?
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8. What is a civil war? _______________________________________________
9. What were the five parts of the Compromise of 1850?
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10. What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
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11. Why were northerners upset by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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12. Who was Stephen Douglas? How did he want the slavery issue to be
decided?
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13. Why did southerners believe that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was unfair?
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14. What happened in Kansas as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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15. What happened as a result of the Dred Scott decision?
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16. Why did John Brown raid Harper’s Ferry? _____________________________
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17. Who won the Senate seat in Illinois in 1858? Lincoln or Douglas?
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18. What is sectionalism? ____________________________________________
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19. Explain how the issue of the westward expansion of slavery caused conflict
between the North and South:
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20. How were the North and South geographically different? How were they
economically different? Why was that a cause of conflict between them?
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21. What was an abolitionist? _________________________________________
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22. Why did northerners like high tariffs? ________________________________
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