Quiz on Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement

Slavery was most common ______.

• on Southern plantations

• in Northern factories

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

• cash crops

• factories

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

• abolish

• profit from

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 into new U.S. territories

Northern and Southern states were ______ in the Senate.

• evenly balanced

• unbalanced

Northern and Southern states worried ______ would upset the Senate vote.

• new states

• freed enslaved people

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 teach 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

Which event directly resulted in the start of the secession of Southern states?

• Abraham Lincoln was elected president.

• Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• John Brown attempted to raid Harpers Ferry.

• Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.