african american chapter 5 quiz

which movement became one of the most prominent - and controversial - reform movements of the period

• women suffrage

• Temperance Movement

• anti-slavery

• prison reforms

Example of a militant abolitionist is

• Fredrick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• David Walker

North Star is an published antislavery newspaper written by

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• David Walker

• William Lloyd Garrison

The compromise that allowed Maine to be a free state and Missouri a slave state is called:

• the compromise of 1833

• The compromise of 1850

• 3/5 compromise

• The Missouri Compromise

Because California wanted to be a free state, a compromise was created called:

• The compromise of 1820

• The compromise of 1833

• the compromise of 1850

• the compromise of 1840

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

• The north has to give the South black people

• Part of the Compromise of 1850, a federal crime to assist runaway slaves.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• allowed slavery to be decided by popular

  sovereignty, caused “Bleeding Kansas”

• Kansas and Nebraska agreeing to become a free state

What is the significance of the Dred Scott Case?

• Dred Scott was able to become free

  court ruled: Slaves are free once in a state

• the slave holder had property rights against Dred because they resided in a Southern slave state

who raided a arsenal at Harpers ferry, Va?

• John Brown

• David walker

• Sojourner Truth

what is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?

• 2 segregated troops who determined to take over Ft. Sumter

• troops who lost the battle of Ft. Sumter

• rested the myth that Black men lacked the nerve to fight.

• Confederate troops who sent black men in to fight