Road to Revolution Chapter 15
  • 1. The Missouri compromise admitted
A) as a slave state, provided that all enslaved people in Missouri be given their freedom within 10 years
B) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
C) as a slave state and Maine as a free state
D) as a free state if all territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase were admitted as slave states
  • 2. Which political party nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848
A) republicans
B) whigs
C) free-soilers
D) democrats
  • 3. According to the Compromise of 1850,
A) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state
B) all of the above
C) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia
D) the New Mexico Territroy would have no restrictions on slavery
  • 4. argued that the only way to save the Union was to protect slavery.
A) Daniel Webster
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Henry Clay
D) David Wilmot
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) protected enslaved people
B) was supported in the North
C) punished slaveholders
D) required citizens to catch runaways
  • 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed to decide whether to allow slavery in those states.
A) Congress
B) the president
C) the Underground Railroad
D) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska
  • 7. In the speech entitled _______ , Charles Sumner lashed out against proslavery forces in Kansas.
A) "Bleeding Kansas"
B) "The Civil War in Kansas"
C) "Marching to Kansas"
D) "The Crime Against Kansas"
  • 8. The Wilmot Proviso specified that slavery should be
A) allowed in former Mexican lands.
B) allowed in Missouri
C) prohibited in Missouri
D) banned in former Mexican lands
  • 9. The Know-Nothing Party took its name from an organization that opposed
A) public education
B) immigration
C) democracy
D) slavery
  • 10. In the Dred Scott case, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that
A) all of the above
B) an enslaved person was not a citizen, and had no right to bring a lawsuit.
C) living on free soil did not make an enslaved person free.
D) an enslaved person was property.
  • 11. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
A) Fugitive Slave Act
B) Kansas-Nebraska Act
C) Compromise of 1850
D) Dred Scott Act
  • 12. In their debates in 1858, and Abraham Lincoln argued mostly about the issue of slavery.
A) Daniel Webster
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Stephen A. Douglas
D) John C. Calhoun
  • 13. Where did John Brown lead a raid on an arsenal to spark an uprising of enslaved people?
A) Freeport, Illinois
B) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
C) Richmond, Virginia
D) Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  • 14. Mississippi Senator became president of the Confederacy.
A) Robert E. Lee
B) Francis Pickens
C) Jefferson Davis
D) John C. Calhoun
  • 15. attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina, to start the Civil War.
A) Union forces
B) the South Carolina militia
C) National Guard troops
D) Confederate forces
  • 16. Afraid that a Republican government would not protect Southern rights, South Carolina voted to
A) organize an armed civilian militia
B) recall its representatives in Congress
C) disobey unpopular federal laws.
D) secede from the Union
  • 17. What is the 3/5 compromise?
A) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
B) Lincolns speech to congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
C) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
D) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
  • 18. What is the Missouri Compromise?
A) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
B) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
C) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
D) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
  • 19. What was the Great Compromise?
A) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
B) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
C) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
D) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) cotton
B) wheat
C) tobacco
D) indigio
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