Pre Civil War

Pre Civil War

8th Grade

21 Qs

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Pre Civil War

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Assessment

Quiz

History

8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Ben Brown

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21 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state. All states North of the 36th parallel would be free states and all the South slave states.
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
secession

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Attempted to compromise by passing the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and allowing Popular Sovereignty.
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
secession

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.
Dred Scott Case
Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A Pre-Civil War political doctrine that held that individual states should decide whether to permit slavery or not.
secession
antebellum
Sojourner Truth
popular sovereignty

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.
antebellum
popular sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act
secession

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote and anti-slavery book called________________ that inspired many people to join the movement to end slavery.
The Life of a Slave
The Liberator
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Quilt Maker

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

This law in 1820 provided that the Louisiana Territory north of the Southern border of this state would be a free-state.
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Missouri
California

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