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WorksheetsPre-Civil War: Compromises
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This is when people in each territory would vote directly on the issue, rather than have their elected representative decide for them.
a)
republicanism
b)
popular sovereignty
c)
nationalism
d)
free-range
2.
This law in 1820 provided that the Louisiana Territory north of the Southern border of this state would be a free-state.
a)
Kentucky
b)
Oklahoma
c)
Missouri
d)
California
3.
What proposition would allow congress to ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War.
a)
Wilmot Proviso
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Compromise 1850
d)
Kansas & Nebraska Act
4.
John C. Calhoun
a)
pro-slavery
b)
anti-slavery
5.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a)
pro-slavery
b)
anti-slavery
6.
Daniel Webster
a)
pro-slavery
b)
anti-slavery
7.
Wilmot Proviso
a)
pro-slavery
b)
anti-slavery
8.
The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?
a)
Nevada
b)
Kansas
c)
Missouri
d)
California
9.
What law allowed special government officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave?
a)
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
b)
Emancipation Proclomation
c)
Underground Railroad
d)
Kansas Nebraska Act
10.
This law left it to the white citizens of the territory to decide whether that territory would be a free or slave territory.
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Wilmot Proviso
c)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
d)
Emancipation Proclomation
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