Chapter 14/15 Quiz

What were the parts of the Compromise of 1850?

• California enters the country as a free state

• Former Mexican territory could vote on whether they wanted slavery or not

• Fugitive Slave Act was made harsher

• all of the above

How was the Kansas-Nebraska act different from the Missouri Compromise's plan for slavery in new states?

• Kansas-Nebraska act allowed people in new Midwest states to vote on allowing slavery

• It required all new states to allow slavery

• It required all new states to ban slavery

• It was the exact same thing as the Missouri Compromise

What were two changes to the Fugitive State Act after the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• You had to stay in your house after 9:00 pm

• People were rewarded for hiding runaway slaves in their houses

• No jury trial for people accused of escaping slavery and anyone who helped them escape would be punished

• You could have a jury trial if you were accused of escaping slavery

What events in Kansas led to the state being nicknamed "Bleeding Kansas"?

• Everyone got really bad papercuts

• After pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters began rioting and killing each other

• There was a war between Europeans and Americans in Kansas

• all of the above

What were some way free African-Americans faced discrimination?

• They were not allowed to leave their houses

• They were not allowed to have a family

• They couldn't travel in large groups and weren't allowed to organize churches, schools. etc.

• They were bowed down to everywhere they went and treated like royalty

What were the main parts of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• Dred Scott was not free and Congress could not forbid slavery in new territories

• Dred Scott was free and slavery was abolished

• Dred Scott had to be kept under probation and slavery was partially banned

• Dred Scott was the first slave to be legally freed

When John Brown attacked the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, he hoped to get weapons to help ______

• Confederates to beat the Union

• The Union to beat the Confederacy

• The soldiers so they could rebel and return home

• Enslaved African Americans to start a rebellion

What reason did southern states give to explain their decision to secede from the Union?

• "states rights" to protect slavery and leave the Union

• they should be allowed to do whatever they want

• they considered themselves their own independent nation

• they didn't really like the North

The South fired on ______, which led to the start of the Civil War

• Washington D.C.

• Richmond, Virginia

• Fort Sumter, South Carolina

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

What were the reasons the Union (North) wanted to keep the border states out of the Confederacy?

• They thought they would rebel and turn against the North

• Some border states were closer to Washington D.C., and others produced supplies for the Union

• The border states would attack all the Union cities near them

• The border states would try to form their own nation