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Debate Over Slavery

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a free soil party?

a)

Party formed by anti slavery northerners.

b)

Party formed by anti slavery southerners.

2.

What is Popular Sovereignty?

a)

Idea that political power belongs to the people.

b)

Supreme power or authority.

3.

Who helped settle the Missouri crisis?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Henry Clay

c)

James Hamlet

d)

Harriet Stowe

4.

Who wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Harriet Stowe

d)

Sojourner Truth

5.

What year was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published?

a)

1896

b)

1845

c)

1992

d)

1852

6.

What was the purpose of Stowe writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

a)

To shame Slaves.

b)

To shame slave owners.

c)

Hoping to educate the northerners about slavery.

d)

To make the southerners feel bad for having slaves.

7.

When was the Fugitive Slave act passed?

a)

1852

b)

1968

c)

1850

d)

1872

8.

The fugitive slave act ......

a)

made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.

b)

made it a crime to stop slaves when they run away.

c)

made it a crime to have slaves.

d)

made it a crime to keep runaway slaves a secret.

9.

How long would people who hid runaway slaves face in jail?

a)

five years

b)

six months

c)

life

d)

fifty years

10.

With the Compromise of 1850, _______ was able to enter the union as a free state.

a)

Florida

b)

Texas

c)

Alabama

d)

California

11.

________ square miles of new land after the Mexican-American War in 1848.

a)

500,000

b)

10,000

c)

600,000

d)

15,000

12.

document that states “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory”

a)

Wilmot Proviso

b)

Free-Soil Party

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Popular Sovereignty

13.

favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests over the entire country

a)

Popular Sovereignty

b)

Wilmot Proviso

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Free-Soil Party