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12:1-2

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 56mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who published The Liberator and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

2.

Who published The North Star and was a skilled orator who worked to abolish slavery and better the lives of free African Americans in the North?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3.

Who was a former enslaved African American woman known nationally as an advocate for social and gender equality?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Harriet Tubman

4.

What was the name of the African colony that was settled in 1822 by the American Colonization Society? It provided freedom to about 12,000 African Americans.

a)

Mali

b)

Liberia

c)

Ghana

d)

Somalia

5.

Who was the escaped slave who risked her own freedom (and life) 19 times to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

David Walker

d)

Sojourner Trith

6.

Why were the Grimke Sisters able to speak about the horrors of slavery?

a)

They witnessed slavery first-hand as former slave owners.

b)

They were writers from the Liberator newspaper.

c)

They escaped slavery on the Underground Railroad.

d)

They were slave traders from Liberia.

7.

All abolitionists agreed that slavery ___.

a)

was morally wrong

b)

was cruel and inhumane

c)

was a violation of the principals of democracy

d)

should end.

8.

I published my "Appeal," which gave slaves pride and hope and encouraged them to violently rebel against their masters.

a)

Horace Mann

b)

Nat Turner

c)

David Walker

d)

Harriet Tubman

9.

The network of secret trails and safe houses that aided runaway slaves was called

a)

The Temperance Movement

b)

The Suffrage Movement

c)

The Underground Railroad

d)

The Fugitive Slave Act

10.

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

a)

MO

b)

KY

c)

ME

d)

OH

11.

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

a)

MO

b)

KY

c)

ME

d)

AL

12.

When was the Missouri Compromise reached?

a)

1819

b)

1820

c)

1850

d)

1854

13.

Who was the author of the Missouri Compromise?

a)

John Quincy Adams

b)

John C. Calhoun

c)

Henry Clay

d)

Stephen Douglas

14.

At the time of the Missouri Compromise, there were __ free states and __ slave states.

a)

11, 11

b)

15, 15

c)

10, 10

d)

21, 21

15.

Which of the following is true about the Missouri Compromise?

a)

It was only a temporary solution.

b)

The Arkansas Territory prohibited (banned) slavery.

c)

The Unorganized Territory permitted slavery.

d)

It solved all issues concerning slavery in the west.

16.

North of the Missouri Compromise line slavery was _____, while South of the line slavery was _____.

a)

permitted, prohibited

b)

prohibited, permitted

c)

sometimes prohibited, never allowed

d)

cheap, expensive

17.

Where was the exact location of the Missouri Compromise line?

a)

36-30 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

b)

56-50 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

c)

46-40 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

d)

66-60 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

18.

Why did the South or pro-slavery states get the worst deal in the Missouri Compromise?

a)

There was more land north of the 36-30 line which didn't allow slavery.

b)

It lost votes in the House of Representatives.

c)

It lost votes in the Senate.

d)

There was more land below the 36-30 line.

19.

25 years after the MO Compromise, the question about the growth of slavery into new territories re-emerged after

a)

Texas requested annexation.

b)

the Mexican Cession.

c)

the Adams-Onis Treaty.

d)

the War of 1812.

20.

In 1850, _______ with its' large population as a result of the Gold Rush, applied for statehood.

a)

AZ

b)

NM

c)

UT

d)

CA

21.

Which US Senator was most responsible for the Compromise of 1850?

a)

Daniel Webster

b)

Henry Clay

c)

John C. Calhoun

d)

Stephen Douglas

22.

The Compromise of 1850 outlawed slave auctions in

a)

Washington, D.C.

b)

New Orleans

c)

Richmond

d)

Charleston

23.

The Compromise of 1850 admitted _________ as a free state.

a)

OR

b)

CA

c)

NM

d)

UT

24.

What did the Compromise of 1850 say about the other territories acquired by the US from Mexico?

a)

The people would decide whether they wanted slavery.

b)

Slavery was banned.

c)

They would automatically become slave states.

d)

All of the above.

25.

After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, many escaped slaves living in the North fled to

a)

Canada.

b)

California.

c)

Mexico.

d)

Liberia.

26.

The Fugitive Slave Act led to

a)

increased Underground Railroad Activity.

b)

increased support for the cause of abolition.

c)

Northern resentment against the South.

d)

All of the above

27.

The idea that only the people, rather than Congress or territorial governments, had the authority to decide the fate of slavery in a new state was called

a)

checks and balances.

b)

popular sovereignty.

c)

states' rights doctrine.

d)

federalism.

28.

By allowing popular sovereignty to decide the fate of slavery in NM and Utah, the Compromise of 1850 effectively repealed the

a)

Missouri Compromise.

b)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

c)

States' Rights Doctrine.

d)

Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819.