Module 16: Challenges to Slavery

John Brown believed that slavery should be illegal in all states.

• true

• fasle

• neither

• both

John Brown led a successful raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

• true

• false

• neither

• both

What was an outcome of Nat Turner's revolt?

• Thousands of slaves in Virginia won their freedom.

• Southern states passed more restrictive slave laws.

• The Underground Railroad became famous.

• The African Methodist church was outlawed. 

Public reactions to John Brown's execution 

• worried pro-slavery groups in the South

• hurt Abraham Lincoln's Senate campaign

• spurred a series of slave uprisings

• showed the weakness of abolitionism

The Dred Scott ruling was a victory for 

• supporters of popular sovereignty. 

• fugitive slaves.

• Free Soilers.

• supporters of slavery.

Dred Scott and his family were ruled to be "property" by the Supreme Court.

• true

• false

• neither

• both