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Road to Revolution Chapter 15 - Quiz
Contributed by: Espinosa
  • 1. The Missouri compromise admitted
A) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
B) as a free state if all territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase were admitted as slave states
C) as a slave state, provided that all enslaved people in Missouri be given their freedom within 10 years
D) as a slave state and Maine as a free state
  • 2. Which political party nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848
A) democrats
B) republicans
C) free-soilers
D) whigs
  • 3. According to the Compromise of 1850,
A) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state
B) the New Mexico Territroy would have no restrictions on slavery
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) David Wilmot
B) Henry Clay
C) Daniel Webster
D) John C. Calhoun
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) protected enslaved people
B) punished slaveholders
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) "Bleeding Kansas"
B) "Marching to Kansas"
C) "The Civil War in Kansas"
D) "The Crime Against Kansas"
  • 8. The Wilmot Proviso specified that slavery should be
A) allowed in former Mexican lands.
B) allowed in Missouri
C) prohibited in Missouri
D) banned in former Mexican lands
  • 9. The Know-Nothing Party took its name from an organization that opposed
A) slavery
B) immigration
C) democracy
D) public education
  • 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 property.
C) an enslaved person was not a citizen, and had no right to bring a lawsuit.
D) all of the above
  • 11. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
A) Dred Scott Act
B) Kansas-Nebraska Act
C) Compromise of 1850
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) Frederick Douglass
C) Daniel Webster
D) John C. Calhoun
  • 13. Where did John Brown lead a raid on an arsenal to spark an uprising of enslaved people?
A) Harpers Ferry, Virginia
B) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
C) Freeport, Illinois
D) Richmond, 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) National Guard troops
C) the South Carolina militia
D) Union forces
  • 16. Afraid that a Republican government would not protect Southern rights, South Carolina voted to
A) recall its representatives in Congress
B) secede from the Union
C) organize an armed civilian militia
D) disobey unpopular federal laws.
  • 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) 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) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
C) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
D) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) cotton
B) tobacco
C) wheat
D) indigio
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