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Road to Revolution Chapter 15
Contributed by: Espinosa
  • 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 free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
C) as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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) republicans
C) free-soilers
D) democrats
  • 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) John C. Calhoun
B) Henry Clay
C) Daniel Webster
D) David Wilmot
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) required citizens to catch runaways
B) punished slaveholders
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 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) "The Civil War in Kansas"
B) "Bleeding Kansas"
C) "The Crime Against Kansas"
D) "Marching to 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) immigration
B) democracy
C) slavery
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) all of the above
D) an enslaved person was not a citizen, and had no right to bring a lawsuit.
  • 11. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
A) Compromise of 1850
B) Kansas-Nebraska Act
C) Fugitive Slave Act
D) Dred Scott Act
  • 12. In their debates in 1858, and Abraham Lincoln argued mostly about the issue of slavery.
A) Stephen A. Douglas
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Daniel Webster
D) Frederick Douglass
  • 13. Where did John Brown lead a raid on an arsenal to spark an uprising of enslaved people?
A) Freeport, Illinois
B) Harpers Ferry, Virginia
C) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
D) Richmond, Virginia
  • 14. Mississippi Senator became president of the Confederacy.
A) Jefferson Davis
B) Francis Pickens
C) Robert E. Lee
D) John C. Calhoun
  • 15. attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina, to start the Civil War.
A) Confederate forces
B) the South Carolina militia
C) Union forces
D) National Guard troops
  • 16. Afraid that a Republican government would not protect Southern rights, South Carolina voted to
A) recall its representatives in Congress
B) organize an armed civilian militia
C) secede from the Union
D) disobey unpopular federal laws.
  • 17. What is the 3/5 compromise?
A) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
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) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
  • 18. What is the Missouri 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) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
D) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
  • 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) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
D) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) indigio
B) cotton
C) wheat
D) tobacco
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