Road to Revolution Chapter 15
  • 1. The Missouri compromise admitted
A) as a slave state, provided that all enslaved people in Missouri be given their freedom within 10 years
B) as a free state if all territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase were admitted as slave states
C) as a slave state and Maine as a free state
D) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves
  • 2. Which political party nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848
A) republicans
B) democrats
C) free-soilers
D) whigs
  • 3. According to the Compromise of 1850,
A) the New Mexico Territroy would have no restrictions on slavery
B) all of the above
C) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state
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) John C. Calhoun
D) Daniel Webster
  • 5. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
A) protected enslaved people
B) required citizens to catch runaways
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) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska
B) the president
C) Congress
D) the Underground Railroad
  • 7. In the speech entitled _______ , Charles Sumner lashed out against proslavery forces in Kansas.
A) "Marching to Kansas"
B) "The Crime Against Kansas"
C) "The Civil War in Kansas"
D) "Bleeding Kansas"
  • 8. The Wilmot Proviso specified that slavery should be
A) prohibited in Missouri
B) allowed in Missouri
C) allowed in former Mexican lands.
D) banned in former Mexican lands
  • 9. The Know-Nothing Party took its name from an organization that opposed
A) public education
B) democracy
C) immigration
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) all of the above
D) an enslaved person was property.
  • 11. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
A) Dred Scott Act
B) Compromise of 1850
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) Fugitive Slave Act
  • 12. In their debates in 1858, and Abraham Lincoln argued mostly about the issue of slavery.
A) Daniel Webster
B) Stephen A. Douglas
C) John C. Calhoun
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) Richmond, Virginia
D) Fort Sumter, South Carolina
  • 14. Mississippi Senator became president of the Confederacy.
A) John C. Calhoun
B) Francis Pickens
C) Jefferson Davis
D) Robert E. Lee
  • 15. attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina, to start the Civil War.
A) National Guard troops
B) Union forces
C) the South Carolina militia
D) Confederate forces
  • 16. Afraid that a Republican government would not protect Southern rights, South Carolina voted to
A) disobey unpopular federal laws.
B) organize an armed civilian militia
C) secede from the Union
D) recall its representatives in Congress
  • 17. What is the 3/5 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) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state.
D) Lincolns speech to congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
  • 18. What is the Missouri 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) 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) 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) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
  • 20. What was the maine crop for Virginia
A) cotton
B) wheat
C) indigio
D) tobacco
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