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WorksheetsThe Compromise of 1850
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
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1.
What did the compromise of 1850 prevent?
a)
It prevented the prices of goods going up.
b)
It prevented further teritorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the fugitive slave act.
c)
It prevented sectionalism.
d)
It prevented the union states from getting extra land.
2.
What was the effect from the comprimise of 1850?
a)
The north gained a free state, California.
b)
Texas lost territory but was compensated with 10 million dollars to pay for its debt.
c)
Slave traid was prohibited in Washington DC but slave trade was not.
d)
All of the above
3.
The comprimise of 1850 took place in africa.
a)
True
b)
False
4.
Northerners where allowed to seize and return escaped slaves.
a)
true
b)
False
5.
What was the descision in the dred scott case?
a)
that a slave will always be a slave
b)
to take scott to the western territories
c)
The supreme court ruled that Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court
d)
that he had to fight in the civil war
6.
What are the effects of the Dred Scott decision?
a)
I don't know
b)
he got beaten to death
c)
he ran aways and fought in the war
d)
That Scott was still a slave and he wasnt an American citizen
7.
Why is the Dred Scott decision so important?
a)
Affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the western territories.
b)
creating a new Republican party.
c)
No slave was entitled to freedom.
d)
All slaves have to work for the rest of their natural borm lives.
8.
What was the outcome of the Dred Scott decision?
a)
There then became the Missouri compermise.
b)
The supreme court ruled that Dred Scott who had resided in a free state and territory where slavery was phrohibited was not entitled to him freedom.
c)
Dred Scott had been thrown in jail for 10 years.
d)
Dred Scott had got beaten to death because of him trying to get his freedom.
9.
What was the Missouri compromise?
a)
The Missouri Comprimise was an effort by congress to defuse sectional and political rivalries.
b)
The expansion of Missouri.
c)
I don't know
10.
What happned in the mossuri compromise in 1820?
a)
They passed a law for slavery to be forever
b)
congress passed a bill granting statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be prohibited in the rest of the louisiana purchase.
c)
The Louisiana purchase was to be cancelled from mossuri.
d)
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