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U.S. History: Compromises

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U.S. History: Compromises
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1.

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

Emancipation Proclamation

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Missouri Compromise

2.

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 should be a slave because he was born in a slave state

He had no rights as a black man

He wanted to sue for his owner's freedom

3.

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What were the Northern states during the Civil War known as?

Confederacy

Union

Rebellion

Territory

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A radical abolitionist that believed slavery must be stopped by force. He led a group of anti-slavery volunteers in Kansas.

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Tubman

John Brown

Sojourner Truth

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What were the southern states called during the Civil War?

Union

Confederate

Loyalist

Rebel

7.

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.

Popular Sovereignty

Federalism

State Rights

Nationalism

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