U.S. History: Compromises
Authored by Sara Rast
Social Studies
6th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The idea that the states should be able decide for themselves whether or not they will be a slave or a free state.
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
Popular Sovereignty
Manifest Destiny
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The South's economy was based on which of the following industries?
Agriculture
Industrial Production
Finance/Banking
Infrastructure
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
This federal law made it illegal to harbor runaway slaves and forced their return to slaveholders in the South if caught.
Fugitive Slave Act
Jim Crow Laws
Reconstruction
The 5th Amendment
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This compromise not only let the territories of Kansas and Nebraska be decided by popular sovereignty, it also repealed the previous border established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dred Scott Court Ruling
3/5 Compromise
The 1850 Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
California entered the Union as a free state while southwest territories would decide the slavery issue themselves.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
John Breckenridge
John Bell
Stephen Douglas
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Dred Scott argue in the Scott v. Sandford case?
He was free because he had lived in free states
He was free because he was now a slaveholder
He should not have been captured because he was a fugitive
He should get his property back through due process
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