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 This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.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