WorksheetsSlavery in America
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
What group of people wanted to immediately end slavery in America?
Abolitionists
Emancipators
Liberators
Which continent WAS NOT a part of the Triangular Slave Trade?
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Which word best describes the North's economy based on factories and inventions?
Agricultural
Industrial
Which word best describes the South's economy based on farming?
Agricultural
Industrial
What was the original dividing line between the "free North" and "slave South"?
36-30 Line
Free-Slave Line
Mason-Dixon Line
What river was unofficially a part of the Mason-Dixon Line?
Delaware
Ohio
Mississippi
Missouri
What formation of stars were runaway slaves supposed to follow according to "Follow the Drinking Gourd"?
Orion
Pegasus
The Big Dipper
The Little Dipper
Which compromise divided up the old Louisiana Territory into "free" and "slave"?
1850 Compromise
Missouri Compromise
The Three-fifths Compromise
Because of the "Fugitive Slave Act", runaway slaves were forced to escape all the way to...
Alaska
Canada
Mexico
Allowing local residents to decide if they wish their territory to be "free" or "slave" is called...
Democracy
Mob rule
Popular Diplomacy
Popular Sovereignty
Which of the following was considered unconstitutional according to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
36-30 Line
The Mason-Dixon Line
The Three-fifths Compromise
Which territory WAS NOT open to popular sovereignty?
Kansas
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oregon
Utah
Which two of the following statements about the 1857 Dred Scott Decision are true?
Dred Scott was set free
Slavery was allowed in ALL STATES
Slaves were considered property, not people
Which of the following WAS NOT a goal of the African Colonization Society?
To eventually end slavery
To send freed slaves to Africa
To permanently separate whites and African-Americans
To set up multi-cultural communities
Which African country was originally purchased to be a colony for freed slaves?
Ethiopia
Ghana
Liberia
Nigeria
Which two regions threatened to secede (break away) from America over the issue of slavery?
Mid-Atlantic
New England
The South
The West
What was the nickname given to the eight presidents who did nothing to solve the problem of slavery?
The Do-Nothing Presidents
The Know-Nothing Presidents
Which of the following presidents WAS NOT one of the Do-Nothing Presidents?
Martin Van Buren
James Knox Polk
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
