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Road to Revolution Chapter 15
Contributed by: Espinosa
  • 1. The Missouri compromise admitted
A) as a slave state and Maine as a free state
B) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
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) republicans
B) democrats
C) whigs
D) free-soilers
  • 3. According to the Compromise of 1850,
A) the New Mexico Territroy would have no restrictions on slavery
B) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia
C) all of the above
D) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state
  • 4. argued that the only way to save the Union was to protect slavery.
A) Daniel Webster
B) John C. Calhoun
C) David Wilmot
D) Henry Clay
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) punished slaveholders
B) required citizens to catch runaways
C) was supported in the North
D) protected enslaved people
  • 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed to decide whether to allow slavery in those states.
A) the Underground Railroad
B) the president
C) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska
D) Congress
  • 7. In the speech entitled _______ , Charles Sumner lashed out against proslavery forces in Kansas.
A) "The Civil War in Kansas"
B) "Marching to Kansas"
C) "The Crime Against Kansas"
D) "Bleeding Kansas"
  • 8. The Wilmot Proviso specified that slavery should be
A) allowed in Missouri
B) prohibited 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) slavery
B) immigration
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 This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.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) 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) 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) Richmond, Virginia
B) Harpers Ferry, Virginia
C) Freeport, Illinois
D) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
  • 14. Mississippi Senator became president of the Confederacy.
A) Francis Pickens
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Robert E. Lee
D) Jefferson Davis
  • 15. attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina, to start the Civil War.
A) National Guard troops
B) Union forces
C) Confederate forces
D) the South Carolina militia
  • 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) disobey unpopular federal laws.
D) organize an armed civilian militia
  • 17. What is the 3/5 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.
  • 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) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
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) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) cotton
B) wheat
C) tobacco
D) indigio
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