Units 4 & 5 Review - USH Review Questions

I am the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Who am I?

• Harriet Tubman

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed states to decide about slavery on their own. This is called

• Status Quo

• Popular Sovereignty

• Popular Vote

After the 1860 election, many Southern states began to vote for

• annexation

• secession

• cession

The Missouri Compromise said that states ___ the 36/30 line were free & states ___ were not.

• above/below

• below/above

• left/right

• right/left

I am slave who sued for my freedom after my owner took me to two free states. Who am I?

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Harriet Tubman

• Jefferson Davis

What was a cause of the Civil War

• state's rights

• slavery

• sectionalism

• All of the above

Which law stated that slaves must be returned to their owners, even if they had reached a free state?

• 3/5 Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

Which act allowed the people in each territory to vote on allowing slavery

• Compromise of 1850

• Texas-New Mexico Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What is the term used to describe the separation of a state from a nation?

• sectionalism

• leaving

• secession

• partitioning

Which of the following was acquired by the United States at the close of the Mexican-American War?

• Texas

• Nebraska

• Utah

• Louisiana