Unit 12 Test Re-Do

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• It temporarily ended the slavery debate.

• It required Southern states to pay higher taxes.

• It led to the South seceding from the Union.

• It upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union.

The South acted strongly against abolitionist writings as a response to fear caused by...

• Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831

• John Quincy Adams fight against the gag rule

• Henry Clay's Missouri Compromise

• The Wilmot Proviso

The voyage of slaves from African ports to the New World was called

• the "Middle Passage."

• the "Terrible Times."

• the "Missouri Compromise"

• the Trail of Tears.

What was the legal status of slaves in the southern states?

• citizen

• property

• dependents

• immigrants

Harriet Tubman's primary role in the Underground Railroad was...

• A "conductor" helping guide slaves to freedom.

• A speaker to raise money

• An organizer of people to host "stations" or safe places

• The leader of the organization planning routes

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.

• It turned many more people against slavery.

• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.

• The South became more resolved to secede from the Union.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri.

• It required that all of Missouri be free.

• It allowed slavery in new Northern territories.

• It established new interstate trade rules.

Uncle's Tom Cabin was a novel that

• described the cruelties of slavery.

• had no effect on the country.

• the South was pleased with.

• Henry Clay wrote.

What did the term "Bleeding Kansas" describe?

• reaction to the Compromise of 1850

• slave revolts in the Kansas Territory

• fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces

• conflict between rural cotton growers and urban factory workers

The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?

• Nevada

• Kansas

• Missouri

• California