Road to Revolution Chapter 15 - Quiz
  • 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 if all territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase were admitted as slave states
C) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
D) as a slave state and Maine as a free state
  • 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) 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) Henry Clay
B) David Wilmot
C) Daniel Webster
D) John C. Calhoun
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) punished slaveholders
B) protected enslaved people
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 president
B) Congress
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) "Marching to Kansas"
B) "Bleeding Kansas"
C) "The Crime Against Kansas"
D) "The Civil War in Kansas"
  • 8. The Wilmot Proviso specified that slavery should be
A) allowed in Missouri
B) banned in former Mexican lands
C) prohibited in Missouri
D) allowed in former Mexican lands.
  • 9. The Know-Nothing Party took its name from an organization that opposed
A) immigration
B) slavery
C) public education
D) democracy
  • 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 This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.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) Fugitive Slave Act
B) Compromise of 1850
C) Dred Scott 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) Stephen A. Douglas
D) Daniel Webster
  • 13. Where did John Brown lead a raid on an arsenal to spark an uprising of enslaved people?
A) Freeport, Illinois
B) Richmond, Virginia
C) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
D) Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  • 14. Mississippi Senator became president of the Confederacy.
A) Francis Pickens
B) Robert E. Lee
C) Jefferson Davis
D) John C. Calhoun
  • 15. attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina, to start the Civil War.
A) Union forces
B) National Guard troops
C) Confederate forces
D) the South Carolina militia
  • 16. Afraid that a Republican government would not protect Southern rights, South Carolina voted to
A) secede from the Union
B) disobey unpopular federal laws.
C) recall its representatives in Congress
D) organize an armed civilian militia
  • 17. What is the 3/5 compromise?
A) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
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) 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) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
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) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
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) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) indigio
B) wheat
C) cotton
D) tobacco
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