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Bellwork: Pre-Civil War #1
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Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
If you are absent, you are responsible for getting the Bellwork you missed from the folder on the counter and completing it. Absences do not excuse you from Bellwork.
Reading a Timeline:
1. What event occurred in the United States in the same year that Alexander II
freed the serfs in Russia?
a. Raid on Harper’s Ferry
c. Civil War begins
b. Lincoln elected
d. French troops occupy Mexico City
2. How many years passed between when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed and
the Civil War began?
a. 5
c. 7
b. 6
d. 8
3. Who was president when the Dred Scott decision was passed?
a. James Buchanan
c. Abraham Lincoln
b. Franklin Pierce
d. Andrew Johnson
Reading a Chart:
1. Based on the table, between which two years did the number of members in the
House of Representatives from both free and slave states decrease?
a. 1800 and 1810
c. 1810 and 1820
b. 1830 and 1840
d. 1840 and 1850
2. In what year did the number of members from slave states reach its peak?
a. 1830
c. 1820
b. 1850
d. 1800
3. How many more representatives from slave state were there in 1850 than there
were in 1800?
a. 2
c. 25
b. 0
d. 11
Reading a Map:
1. According to the map, in 1860 Kentucky and West Virginia were both…?
a. Union free states
c. Union territories
b. Slave states
d. Union slave states
2. How many states seceded before April 1861?
a. 11
c. 8
b. 10
d. 7
3. What are the four states that seceded after the attack on Fort Sumter?
a. Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware
b. Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina
c. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
d. Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama
Reading a Document:
1. Using context clues, I can tell that the word “alter” means ____ in this situation?
a. a place for sacrifice
c. to enslave
b. to change
d. none of the above
2. Why did Eli Whitney want to develop a cotton gin?
a. his employer asked him to
c. farmers were losing money
b. he would make money
d. all of the above
3. Why did Eli Whitney go to Georgia?
a. to be a tutor
c. both a and b
b. to earn money
d. neither a nor b
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Bellwork: Pre-Civil War #2
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
If you are absent, you are responsible for getting the Bellwork you missed from the folder on the counter and completing it. Absences do not excuse you from Bellwork
Reading a Timeline:
1. In which of the following years was Henry Clay not elected to the senate?
a. 1806
c. 1831
b. 1811
d. 1849
2. In what year was Henry Clay first elected to the Senate?
a. 1806
c. 1831
b. 1811
d. 1849
3. How many years passed between the first time Clay was elected to the Senate
and the last time he was?
a. 54 years
c. 44 years
b. 43 years
d. 25 years
Reading a Map:
1. Based on the two maps, which of the following statements is correct?
a. The Kansas-Nebraska Act ,1854 abolished slaveholding in U.S. territories.
b. The Kansas-Nebraska Act ,1854 increased the territory open to slaveholding.
c. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 decreased the territory open to slaveholding
d. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 increased the number of free states
2. Based on the two maps how did the Oregon Territory change between 1850 and
1854?
a. became open to slaveholding
c. doubled in size
b. became a free state
d. part was declared Washington Territory
3. How many territories were closed to slaveholding in 1854?
a. 0
c. 2
b. 1
d. 3
Reading a Chart:
1. Which author lived in two different centuries?
a. Washington Irving
c. Herman Melville
b. Nathaniel Hawthorne
d. Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. Which book was published in 1850?
a. Moby Dick
c. The Tell-Tale Heart
b. The Scarlet Letter
d. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
3. How old was Harriet Beecher Stowe when she died?
a. 41
c. 44
b. 85
d. 40
Reading a Document:
1. What is a spiritual?
a. a church
c. a slave
b. a book
d. a song
2. Why did slaves like spirituals?
a. helped them feel better
c. passed on messages
b. used symbolism to help escapes
d. all of the above
3. What reason does the text give for why slave owners did not want slaves to read
or write?
a. they were too stupid to read
c. kept them under control
b. they didn’t go to school
d. they don’t like symbolism
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Bellwork: Pre-Civil War #3
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
If you are absent, you are responsible for getting the Bellwork you missed from the folder on the counter and completing it. Absences do not excuse you from Bellwork
Reading a Graph:
1. Who won the most electoral votes?
a. Douglas
c. Breckenridge
b. Bell
d. Lincoln
2. Why did Lincoln, who got less than 50% of the popular vote, win the
election?
a. He didn’t win
c. He got less votes than anyone else
b. He was the best speaker d. He got more votes than anyone else
3. Who won the popular vote?
a. Douglas
c. Breckenridge
b. Bell
d. Lincoln
Reading a Map:
1. Based on the map, which presidential candidate received the most electoral
and popular votes in the election of 1860?
a. Lincoln
c. Breckenridge
b. Bell
d. Douglas
2. Based on the information, which of the following regions of the country was
predominately Republican?
a. Deep South
c. Southeast
b. Northeast
d. Non-voting territories
3. What is the difference between the number of electoral votes that Lincoln
received and Breckenridge received?
a. 141
c. 118
b. 108
d. 168
Reading a Graph:
1. In the 1860 presidential election which candidate received the fewest
electoral votes?
a. Douglas
c. Breckenridge
b. Bell
d. Lincoln
2. Which candidate had the greatest difference between the number of
electoral votes and popular votes?
a. Douglas
c. Breckenridge
b. Bell
d. Lincoln
3. Based on the graph, who lost the 1860 electoral election?
a. Douglas
c. Breckenridge
b. Bell
d. all of the above
Reading a Document:
1. What is an abolitionist?
a. A slave-owner
c. Someone against slavery
b. An author
d. A book
2. Who is the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. Rachel Halliday
b. Levi Coffin
d. Catherine Coffin
3. Which statement is true about Harriet’s book?
a. It was a best seller
c. it brought attention to slavery
b. It was against slavery
d. all of the above
c.
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