Slavery/Abolitionism Quiz

Which reform movement is most closely associated with William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe?

• abolitionist

• labor

• Populist

• Progressive

Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

. . . And now to the point. In our opinion, an opinion which has been formed from data obtained by assiduous [thorough] researches, and comparisons, from laborious investigation, logical reasoning, and earnest reflection, the causes which have impeded the progress and prosperity of the South, which have dwindled our commerce, and other similar pursuits, into the most contemptible insignificance; sunk a large majority of our people in galling poverty and ignorance, rendered a small minority conceited and tyrannical, and driven the rest away from their homes; entailed upon us a humiliating dependence on the Free States; disgrace us in the recesses of our own souls, and brought us under reproach in the eyes of all civilians and enlightened nations-may all be traced to one common source, and there find solution in the most hateful and horrible word, that was ever incorporated into the vocabulary of human economy ---Slavery! ...

- Hinton Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South: How To Meet It, 1857

This statement most clearly expresses the author's opinion that slavery

• should be extended into the western territories

• caused the North to be dependent on the South

• was the cause of economic and social problems in the South

• was the reason the South should secede from the Union

Which heading best completes the partial outline above?

• Chinese Immigrants on the West Coast

• Enslaved Africans

• Indentured Servants in New England

• Mexican Farmers in the Southwest

Base your answer to question on the excerpt from an address to the Cherokee Nation below and on your knowledge of social studies.

Cherokees! The president of the United States has sent me, with a powerful army, to cause you, in obedience to the treaty of 1835, to join that part of your people who are already established in prosperity on the other side of the Mississippi. —Unhappily, the two years which were allowed for the purpose, you have suffered to pass away without following, and without making any preparations to follow; and now, or by the time that this solemn address shall reach your distant settlements, the emigration must be commenced in haste, but, I hope, without disorder, to correct the error that you have committed. The full moon of May is already on the wane [decline]; and before another shall have passed away, every Cherokee man, woman, and child, in those states, must be in motion to join their brethren in the far west....

– General Winfield Scott, 1838

The immediate result of the action demanded in this passage was the

• creation of the Underground Railroad

• expansion of the rights of Native American Indians

• start of the Trail of Tears march to the Oklahoma Territory

• assimilation of Native American Indians into mainstream American culture

Both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the North and the South over

• slavery and admission of states to the Union

• Supreme Court decisions

• slavery and presidential election results

• voting rights

What would be a motivating reason why abolitionists opposed annexation (expansion/adding) of new western territory during the early 1800s?

• feared the admission of new slave states

• wanted to limit the power of the national government

• were concerned with the legal rights of Native American Indians

• supported an isolationist foreign policy

The Missouri Compromise defined a boundary for slavery in which of the following Western Territories?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Supreme Court decisions

• presidential election results

• voting rights

In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson supported the Indian removal policy because

• white settlers desired the land on which Native American Indians lived

• Native American Indians were attacking southern cities

• he wanted to punish Native American Indians for their political opposition

• he sought complete control of Texas by the United States

During the first half of the 19th century, territorial expansion led to

• increased tensions over slavery

• improved relations with bordering nations

• fewer conflicts with Native American Indians

• decreased domestic demand for manufactured goods

Base your answers to question 10 on the map and on your knowledge of social studies.

Information on the map supports the conclusion that congressional leaders in 1820 and 1821 wanted to

• maintain an equal number of free and slave states

• ban slavery west of the Mississippi River

• bring slavery to the Oregon Country

• open territories in the North to slavery