Road to Revolution Chapter 15
  • 1. The Missouri compromise admitted
A) as a free state if all territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase were admitted as slave states
B) as a slave state and Maine as a free state
C) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
D) as a slave state, provided that all enslaved people in Missouri be given their freedom within 10 years
  • 2. Which political party nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848
A) whigs
B) free-soilers
C) democrats
D) republicans
  • 3. According to the Compromise of 1850,
A) the New Mexico Territroy would have no restrictions on slavery
B) all of the above
C) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state
D) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia
  • 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) required citizens to catch runaways
C) was supported in the North
D) punished slaveholders
  • 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed to decide whether to allow slavery in those states.
A) Congress
B) the president
C) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska
D) the Underground Railroad
  • 7. In the speech entitled _______ , Charles Sumner lashed out against proslavery forces in Kansas.
A) "The Civil War in Kansas"
B) "Marching to Kansas"
C) "The Crime Against Kansas"
D) "Bleeding 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) democracy
B) slavery
C) public education
D) immigration
  • 10. In the Dred Scott case, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that
A) an enslaved person was property.
B) all of the above
C) an enslaved person was not a citizen, and had no right to bring a lawsuit.
D) living on free soil did not make an enslaved person free.
  • 11. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
A) Compromise of 1850
B) Dred Scott Act
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) Fugitive Slave Act
  • 12. In their debates in 1858, and Abraham Lincoln argued mostly about the issue of slavery.
A) Stephen A. Douglas
B) Daniel Webster
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Frederick Douglass
  • 13. Where did John Brown lead a raid on an arsenal to spark an uprising of enslaved people?
A) Harpers Ferry, Virginia
B) Freeport, Illinois
C) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
D) Richmond, 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) Confederate forces
D) National Guard troops
  • 16. Afraid that a Republican government would not protect Southern rights, South Carolina voted to
A) disobey unpopular federal laws.
B) recall its representatives in Congress
C) organize an armed civilian militia
D) secede from the Union
  • 17. What is the 3/5 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.
  • 18. What is the Missouri Compromise?
A) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
B) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
C) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
D) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
  • 19. What was the Great 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) 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.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) tobacco
B) wheat
C) cotton
D) indigio
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