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Search For Compromise

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A person who runs away from the law is?

a)

A piker

b)

A marathon runner

c)

A Fugitive

d)

A barrel slip

2.

When a state leaves the Union it's called?

a)

Succession

b)

Segregation

c)

Integration

d)

Secede

3.

Armed pro-slavery supporters who crossed the border to vote IN Kansas?

a)

Border Patrol

b)

Border Ruffians

c)

U S Customs

d)

U S Immigrations

4.

Fighting between citizens of the same country is called?

a)

Civil Disobedience

b)

Strife section

c)

Civil War

d)

Ethnic cleansing

5.

How did Congress settle whether California would be a slave or free state?

a)

They did not let California come in to the U.S.

b)

They passed the Compromise of 1850

c)

They made California pay a high tariff to be a state

d)

They let California have slaves

6.

Who was the Free Soil party's presidential candidate in 1848?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Martin Van Buren

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Stephen Douglas

7.

Which senator said that Congress could NOT ban slavery in any territory?

a)

John C. Calhoun

b)

Senator Douglas

c)

Henry Clay

d)

Martin Van Buren

8.

What did Mexico and the United States fight for?

a)

Access to the Rio Grande river

b)

Access to the Mississippi shipping lanes

c)

Where the border between Mexico and Texas would be

d)

They fought over the Gulf of Mexico fishing rights

9.

Which Compromise kept a balance in the Senate between Slave and Free states?

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

The Land Act Compromise

c)

The Great Northern debate

d)

The Secession Compromise

10.

Which proposed law would ban slavery in any lands taken from Mexico?

a)

The Charter Act

b)

The Great Slavery Provision

c)

The Wilmot Proviso

d)

The Territory Debate law

11.

What was the Free Soil Party's slogan?

a)

"Free Slaves Now!"

b)

"Free Men Unite"

c)

"Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men"

d)

"Free States, Free People and Free Country"

12.

Where was the slave trade banned to try to calm the North and the South?

a)

St. Louis, Missouri

b)

Washington D.C.

c)

Richmond, Virginia

d)

Sacramento, California

13.

What was the name of the lands west of Missouri called?

a)

The California/Nevada Territories

b)

The Western Ridge Territories

c)

Kansas and Nebraska Terriotories

d)

Missouri Compromise

14.

Which abolitionist led a raid on pro-slavery supporters in Kansas?

a)

William Dawes

b)

Ichabod Crane

c)

John Browne

d)

Frederick Douglas

15.

what was the raid on a small town in Kansas that ended up with five slavery supporters dead called?

a)

Kansas Action

b)

Bleeding Kansas

c)

Suffering Kansas

d)

Payback

16.

What was the line that divided that slavery states from the non-slavery sates called?

a)

The Divisive Line

b)

The Mason Dixon Line

c)

The Polarized Zone

d)

The Abolitionist Line

17.

In 1856 How many governments did Kansas end up with?

a)

One

b)

Two

18.

Which senator proposed a compromise that would ban the slave trade in Washington D.C.?

a)

John C. Calhoun

b)

Stephen A. Douglas

c)

Henry Clay

d)

James E.Mason

19.

Which territory was divided into two territories and their citizens voted whether to be a slave or a free state?

a)

The Oregon Territory

b)

The Ohio Territory

c)

The Confederate Territory

d)

The Nebraska Territory

20.

What does Popular Sovereignty mean?

a)

Only Popular people can vote

b)

The popular vote decides who wins the election

c)

The People Rule

d)

Majority always wins