NCFE 8.H.2.3. Prep

Use the list to answer the question.

• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
• Josiah Henson, The Life of Josiah Henson (1849)
• Henry Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851)
• Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
• James Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849)

What best describes the authors of the works on this list?

• former slaves who told their stories to support abolition
• politicians who published pamphlets regarding abolition
• journalists who reported on the treatment of slaves on southern plantations
• novelists who presented slaves as the main characters of their fictional works

Which action took place as the nation ratified a new Constitution?

• The supporters of the Articles of Confederation were imprisoned.
• The country saw the rise of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
  
• Southern states organized a convention to secede from the Union
• Territories west of the Mississippi asked to be admitted as states.

Which conclusion is best supported by the timeline?

• Britain eventually granted the colonies representation in Parliment.
• Only elected British officials had the right to levy taxes.
• Britains efforts to increase control over the colonies were not successful.
• Creation of the First continental congress was an immediate reaction to the passge of the Stamp Act.

How did the U.S. government respond to conflicts over slavery before the Civil War?

• by protecting privacy rights and preventing illegal searches
• by granting all residents of a state citizenship
• by granting the right to vote to all citizens
• by passing a series of compromises to appease citizens

Use the list below to answer the question that follows.
 
Legislation of the
Radical Reconstruction Congress 
   • Civil Rights Act of 1866
   • Reconstruction Act of 1867
   • Habeas Corpus Act of 1867
   • Fourteenth Amendment

What was the main purpose of this legislation?

• to make it easy for former states of the Confederacy to rejoin the Union
• to ensure that former states of the Confederacy protected rights of all citizens
• to pass measures that would satisfy Southern demands for stronger states’ rights
• to weaken Southern influence by accepting some Western territories as new states

Use the information below to answer the question that follows. 
 
• Missouri Compromise of 1820
 • Compromise Tariff of 1833
 • Compromise of 1850

Which statement best describes the role played by an historical figure in the debates that led to these agreements?

• John Quincy Adams sought to open more territories to slavery.
• John C. Calhoun argued that the states must obey all federal laws.
• Henry Clay offered solutions to satisfy different sides of the issues.
• Daniel Webster threatened secession if his state’s needs were not met.

Use the information below to answer the question that follows. 
 
Missouri Compromise of 1820 
 • Slavery banned in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30’ parallel
 • Slavery allowed in the Louisiana Territory south of the 36°30’ parallel 
 • Missouri joined the Union as a slave state

What other agreement was a part of this compromise?

• The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted to gain the support of southern states
• A higher tariff was introduced to satisfy manufacturers from northern states.
• Kansas was given the choice whether to join the Union as a free or slave state.
• Maine joined the Union as a free state to keep the total of free and slave states equal.

Use the information below to answer the question that follows.
 
• Missouri Compromise of 1820
 • Compromise of 1850
 • Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

These legislative acts were all efforts to resolve disagreements over what issue?

• war
• tariffs
• slavery
• immigration

Use the information below to answer the question that follows.
 
• California entered the Union as a free state
 • Utah and New Mexico would decide for themselves
  whether to be slave states or free states
 • The slave trade in Washington, D.C., ended 
 • The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted

This list identifies provisions that were all part of which compromise?

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise Tariff of 1833
• Compromise of 1850

Use the information below to answer the question that follows. 
 
• Permitted slavery north of the 36°30’ parallel
 • Allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on
   the basis of popular sovereignty 
 • Effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise

This list summarizes the results of which of the following?

• Louisiana Purchase
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Three-fifths Compromise