Worksheets35 A Quizzizz
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 3mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
a)
it made the confederates angry
b)
It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free.
c)
it only freed slaves from Georgia and Alabama
d)
it made confederates happy
2.
In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?
a)
It created new taxes for railroad construction.
b)
It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
c)
It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
d)
It added California as a slave state
3.
Who proposed the compromise of 1850?
a)
Henry Clay
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
4.
What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?
a)
The underground railroad was ended
b)
Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
c)
Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
d)
Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves
5.
What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850
a)
Oregon
b)
California
c)
Michigan
d)
Iowa
6.
The north was ________ slavery
a)
For
b)
Against
c)
Unsure
d)
About
7.
All of these were reason the Fugitive Slave Law failed except.
a)
Many slaves moved to Canada.
b)
Northerners refused to obey the law.
c)
Hounded slave catchers returned to the South.
d)
Plantation owners did not want returned slaves.
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