Social Studies Chapter 8 Test Review

Slavery was most common in ​ ​

• on Southern plantations
• in Northern Factories

As time went on, many people in the North wanted to ​​_______ slavery.

• profit from

• abolish

The growth of ______  on a massive scale was not possible without the institution of slavery.

• cash crops

• factories

What was the goal of the abolitionist movement?

• To give enslaved people the right to vote

• to end slavery in the United States

• to help Southerners catch enslaved people who had escaped

• to allow slavery to spread to into new U.S. territories

Northern and Southern states were _____ in the Sentate.

• evenly balanced

• new states

• old states

• oddly balanced

What did slave codes do? (Choose 2)

• They made it illegal for enslaved people to meet together

• They made it illegal to force enslaved people to do more work.

• They made it illegal to teah enslaved people to read and write.

• They made it illegal for enslaved people to be taken to western states.

In which area was slavery prohibited by the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• Area A

• Area B

• Area C

• Area D

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 made Northerners very angry?

• a new strict fugitive slave law

• the end of slave trade in Washington D.C.

• the admission of California to the Union as a free state

• a vote to decide if slavery was allowed in New Mexico

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was based in the idea of

• Popular Sovereignty

• Bleeding Kanas

The violence grew so bad in Kansas that people called it

• Popular Sovereignty

• Bleeding Kanas