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Road to Revolution Chapter 15
Contributed by: Espinosa
  • 1. The Missouri compromise admitted
A) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
B) as a slave state and Maine as a free state
C) as a slave state, provided that all enslaved people in Missouri be given their freedom within 10 years
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) democrats
B) free-soilers
C) republicans
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) the New Mexico Territroy would have no restrictions on slavery
D) all of the above
  • 4. argued that the only way to save the Union was to protect slavery.
A) Henry Clay
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Daniel Webster
D) David Wilmot
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) required citizens to catch runaways
B) protected enslaved people
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) the Underground Railroad
B) Congress
C) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska
D) the president
  • 7. In the speech entitled _______ , Charles Sumner lashed out against proslavery forces in Kansas.
A) "Bleeding Kansas"
B) "The Crime Against Kansas"
C) "Marching to Kansas"
D) "The Civil War in Kansas"
  • 8. The Wilmot Proviso specified that slavery should be
A) allowed in former Mexican lands.
B) prohibited in Missouri
C) banned in former Mexican lands
D) allowed in Missouri
  • 9. The Know-Nothing Party took its name from an organization that opposed
A) slavery
B) public education
C) immigration
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 property.
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 This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.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) Dred Scott Act
B) Kansas-Nebraska Act
C) Fugitive Slave Act
D) Compromise of 1850
  • 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) Harpers Ferry, Virginia
B) Richmond, Virginia
C) Freeport, Illinois
D) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
  • 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) 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) organize an armed civilian militia
B) recall its representatives in Congress
C) disobey unpopular federal laws.
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) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
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) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
  • 19. What was the Great 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.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) indigio
B) wheat
C) tobacco
D) cotton
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