Understanding Slavery and Abolition Part II

What did the Missouri Compromise aim to address?

• The rights of freed slaves

• Immigration policies

• Foreign trade laws

• Balance between slave and free states

Abraham Lincoln, when he was running for president, thought the best thing to do for enslaved people was to

• Free them all.

• Tell them to use the Underground Railroad.

• Provide health care.

• Send them back to Africa.

The free black population in the North grew by ________________ between the years 1830 and 1850.

• 10,000

• 1.5 million

• A quarter million

• 70,000

White violence against blacks began in the South almost as soon as the Civil War ended.

• True

• False

Who was the perfect person to bring about the end of slavery according to the Zinn chapter?

• Frederick Douglass

• Benjamin Banneker

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

The slave Dred Scott was not allowed to sue for his freedom after having lived in the free territory of Minnesota for some time because

• He was late for the trial.

• He was too young to take the witness stand.

• He was considered property, not a person.

• He was not living in the state anymore.

An abolitionist

• Would have great sympathy for the enslavers.

• Was a person who might have made speeches or written articles against slavery.

• Worked carefully with Massasoit to produce wampum.

• Would greet the Spanish with flowers.

According to one historian, ____________________ enslaved human beings were illegally imported up until the start of the Civil War.

• 12.5 million

• 250,000

• 4 million

• 1.5 million

What law was passed in Virginia in 1662 regarding the status of children?

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• Partus sequitur ventrem

• The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves

Black abolitionists were the backbone of the movement against slavery.

• True

• False