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Antebellum/Abolition

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Angelina Grimke

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

2.

Who was Nat Turner and what did he do?

a)

A white abolitionist who tried to take over an arsenal to end slavery

b)

An enslaved man who started a revolt by killing the white families on plantations

c)

An enslaved man who ran away and started the Underground Railroad

3.

Which two states were admitted through the Missouri Compromise?

a)

Missouri and Maine

b)

Massachusetts and Missouri

c)

Maine and Massachusetts

d)

Only 1 state was added (Missouri)

4.

What is a nationalist?

a)

Someone who advocated to remove themselves from the nation

b)

Someone who feels loyalty only to their section of the nation

c)

Someone who feels loyalty and pride for their whole nation

5.

What was the nickname for Kansas during the mid-1800s?

a)

The Wild Wild West

b)

Angry Kansas

c)

Bleeding Kansas

6.

What is a sectionalist?

a)

Someone who wants equality in their nation

b)

Someone who feels loyalty to their entire nation

c)

Someone who feels loyalty to their own section of the nation

7.

Check all the things needed for a territory to become a state

a)

>60,000 population

b)

State constituion

c)

Elected officals

d)

Approval from Congress

8.

What is an abolitionist

a)

Someone who wants to violently free enslaved people

b)

Someone who promotes the expansion of slavery

c)

Someone who advocates for the end of slavery

9.

Why did the South threaten to secede in 1849?

a)

California's state constitution outlawed slavery

b)

Abraham Lincoln was elected

c)

The president was going to outlaw slavery

10.

What is “popular sovereignty”?

a)

The territories would be able to vote to decide if slavery should be allowed or not

b)

The new states would have to allow slavery

c)

The country would be able to vote if slavery should be expanded to the entire nation

11.

The notion that states have the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional (or say no to a law) is called…

a)

Secession

b)

Nullifcation

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Nationalism

12.

Who wrote “The Liberator”

a)

John Brown

b)

Angelina Grimke

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

13.

Which region of the country was more industrialized?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

Equal

14.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

Underground tunnels that went from slave states to Canada

b)

Secret railroads that enslaved people used to escape north

c)

Network of safe houses to lead enslaved people to freedom

15.

What did the cotton gin do to the institution of slavery?

a)

Increased the demand

b)

Decreased the demand

c)

It did not impact it

16.

Check all that are parts of the local government

a)

Mayor

b)

Police

c)

Citizens

17.

What does antebellum mean?

a)

Pre-Abolition America

b)

Post- Civil War America

c)

Pre-Civil War America

d)

Pre- Abraham Lincoln America

18.

Who won the election of 1860?

a)

George Washington

b)

Stephen Douglass

c)

John Brown

d)

Abraham Lincoln

19.

What are the of the Compromise of 1850?

a)

Cali is a free state

b)

The slave trade is outlawed in DC

c)

Slavery will be outlawed in 40 years

d)

Utah/New Mexico territories are open to slavery

e)

Stricter Fugitive Slave Act

20.

What was the result of Dred Scott decision?

a)

He was given his freedom

b)

Slavery was outlawed

c)

He was still enslaved

21.

What compromise did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

3/5 Compromise

d)

Lincoln's Compromise

22.

Who was the enslaved man who sued for his freedom after being brought to live in free territory

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Dred Scott

d)

David Walker

23.

Who was the man that raided Harpers Ferry in order to get weapons for a violent to create an armed revolt against slavery

a)

John Brown

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Frederick Douglass

24.

What were the personal liberty laws in response to?

a)

The Compromise of 1850

b)

The Fugitive Slave Act

c)

3/5 Compromise

d)

Bleeding Kansas

25.

Check all that are parts of the Federal Government

a)

President

b)

Supreme Court

c)

House of Representatives

d)

Mayor