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 slave state and Maine as a free state
C) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
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) free-soilers
C) democrats
D) whigs
  • 3. According to the Compromise of 1850,
A) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state
B) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia
C) all of the above
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) John C. Calhoun
B) Henry Clay
C) David Wilmot
D) Daniel Webster
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) punished slaveholders
B) protected enslaved people
C) was supported in the North
D) required citizens to catch runaways
  • 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed to decide whether to allow slavery in those states.
A) the president
B) the Underground Railroad
C) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska
D) Congress
  • 7. In the speech entitled _______ , Charles Sumner lashed out against proslavery forces in Kansas.
A) "The Crime Against Kansas"
B) "Bleeding Kansas"
C) "Marching to Kansas"
D) "The Civil War in Kansas"
  • 8. The Wilmot Proviso specified that slavery should be
A) prohibited in Missouri
B) banned in former Mexican lands
C) allowed 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) democracy
C) slavery
D) immigration
  • 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) an enslaved person was property.
D) living on free soil did not make an enslaved person free.
  • 11. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
A) Compromise of 1850
B) Fugitive Slave Act
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) Dred Scott Act
  • 12. In their debates in 1858, and Abraham Lincoln argued mostly about the issue of slavery.
A) Daniel Webster
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Stephen A. Douglas
  • 13. Where did John Brown lead a raid on an arsenal to spark an uprising of enslaved people?
A) Freeport, Illinois
B) Harpers Ferry, Virginia
C) Richmond, Virginia
D) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
  • 14. Mississippi Senator became president of the Confederacy.
A) Francis Pickens
B) Robert E. Lee
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Jefferson Davis
  • 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) 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) 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.
  • 18. What is the Missouri 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) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
D) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
  • 19. What was the Great 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) 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.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) wheat
B) tobacco
C) indigio
D) cotton
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