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WorksheetsDebate Over Slavery
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is a free soil party?
Party formed by anti slavery northerners.
Party formed by anti slavery southerners.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Idea that political power belongs to the people.
Supreme power or authority.
Who helped settle the Missouri crisis?
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
James Hamlet
Harriet Stowe
Who wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriet Tubman
Maya Angelou
Harriet Stowe
Sojourner Truth
What year was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published?
1896
1845
1992
1852
What was the purpose of Stowe writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
To shame Slaves.
To shame slave owners.
Hoping to educate the northerners about slavery.
To make the southerners feel bad for having slaves.
When was the Fugitive Slave act passed?
1852
1968
1850
1872
The fugitive slave act ......
made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.
made it a crime to stop slaves when they run away.
made it a crime to have slaves.
made it a crime to keep runaway slaves a secret.
How long would people who hid runaway slaves face in jail?
five years
six months
life
fifty years
With the Compromise of 1850, _______ was able to enter the union as a free state.
Florida
Texas
Alabama
California
________ square miles of new land after the Mexican-American War in 1848.
500,000
10,000
600,000
15,000
document that states “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory”
Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party
Sectionalism
Popular Sovereignty
favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests over the entire country
Popular Sovereignty
Wilmot Proviso
Sectionalism
Free-Soil Party
