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) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state
C) all of the above
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) John C. Calhoun
B) Daniel Webster
C) David Wilmot
D) Henry Clay
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) required citizens to catch runaways
B) was supported in the North
C) protected enslaved people
D) punished slaveholders
  • 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed to decide whether to allow slavery in those states.
A) Congress
B) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska
C) the president
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) "The Crime Against Kansas"
C) "Marching to Kansas"
D) "Bleeding Kansas"
  • 8. The Wilmot Proviso specified that slavery should be
A) prohibited in Missouri
B) allowed in Missouri
C) banned in former Mexican lands
D) allowed 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) living on free soil did not make an enslaved person free.
B) an enslaved person was not a citizen, and had no right to bring a lawsuit.
C) an enslaved person was property.
D) all of the above
  • 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 This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.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) Frederick Douglass
B) Stephen A. Douglas
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Daniel Webster
  • 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) 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) Confederate forces
B) Union forces
C) the South Carolina militia
D) National Guard troops
  • 16. Afraid that a Republican government would not protect Southern rights, South Carolina voted to
A) organize an armed civilian militia
B) disobey unpopular federal laws.
C) recall its representatives in Congress
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) 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.
  • 18. What is the Missouri 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.
  • 19. What was the Great Compromise?
A) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
B) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
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) tobacco
C) cotton
D) wheat
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