Chapter 9 Test

After gaining her freedom and moving to New York City, Sojourner Truth became influential as

• a conductor on the Underground Railroad

• a speaker in the abolition movement

• an editor of the antislavery paper The North Star

• a writer of the Declaration of Sentiments

What was the duty of a conductor on the Underground Railroad?

• to collect fares from passengers before leaving each station

• to move runaways safely from station to station

• to ensure that trains traveled in the right direction

• to provide money to runaways for passage on the railroad

In his newspaper The Liberator, abolitionist ____________ called for an immediate end to slavery.

The compromise of 1850 was the result of which action?

• the creation of the Free-Soil Party

• Northern senators opposing the Fugitive Slave Act

• California's application as a free state

• Stephen A. Douglas campaigning for president.

Why did Kansas get the nickname "Bleeding Kansas" in the 1850s?

• Native Americans carried out raids against white settlers there

• Farmers and ranchers fought fiercely over land rights there

• Abolitionists and supporters of slavery clashed violently there

• Native Americans were driven from their homes as white settlers claimed land there

__________ was the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading many enslaved people to freedom.

Under the doctrine of popular sovereignty, the decision on whether to permit slavery in a new territory would be decided by the

• House of Representatives

• Supreme Court

• people living in the territory

• Wilmot proviso

In the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court ruled that

• enslaved people did not become free simply by escaping to free states

• congress could not legally abolish the practice of slavery

• the descendants of enslaved people could become citizens

• the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution protected the practice of slavery

Which person escaped slavery and later became a powerful abolitionist speaker and newspaper editor?

• William Llyod Garrison

• David Walker

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

In his First Inaugural Address, President Lincoln stated that he

• planned to end slavery in the south and in new territories

• was willing to compromise on the transport of enslaved people across state lines

• would not allow the Southern states to secede from the union

• intended to maintain possession of federal property in the South