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Slavery in America

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What group of people wanted to immediately end slavery in America?

a)

Abolitionists

b)

Emancipators

c)

Liberators

2.

Which continent WAS NOT a part of the Triangular Slave Trade?

a)

Africa

b)

Asia

c)

Europe

d)

North America

3.

Which word best describes the North's economy based on factories and inventions?

a)

Agricultural

b)

Industrial

4.

Which word best describes the South's economy based on farming?

a)

Agricultural

b)

Industrial

5.

What was the original dividing line between the "free North" and "slave South"?

a)

36-30 Line

b)

Free-Slave Line

c)

Mason-Dixon Line

6.

What river was unofficially a part of the Mason-Dixon Line?

a)

Delaware

b)

Ohio

c)

Mississippi

d)

Missouri

7.

What formation of stars were runaway slaves supposed to follow according to "Follow the Drinking Gourd"?

a)

Orion

b)

Pegasus

c)

The Big Dipper

d)

The Little Dipper

8.

Which compromise divided up the old Louisiana Territory into "free" and "slave"?

a)

1850 Compromise

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

The Three-fifths Compromise

9.

Because of the "Fugitive Slave Act", runaway slaves were forced to escape all the way to...

a)

Alaska

b)

Canada

c)

Mexico

10.

Allowing local residents to decide if they wish their territory to be "free" or "slave" is called...

a)

Democracy

b)

Mob rule

c)

Popular Diplomacy

d)

Popular Sovereignty

11.

Which of the following was considered unconstitutional according to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

36-30 Line

b)

The Mason-Dixon Line

c)

The Three-fifths Compromise

12.

Which territory WAS NOT open to popular sovereignty?

a)

Kansas

b)

Nebraska

c)

New Mexico

d)

Oregon

e)

Utah

13.

Which two of the following statements about the 1857 Dred Scott Decision are true?

a)

Dred Scott was set free

b)

Slavery was allowed in ALL STATES

c)

Slaves were considered property, not people

14.

Which of the following WAS NOT a goal of the African Colonization Society?

a)

To eventually end slavery

b)

To send freed slaves to Africa

c)

To permanently separate whites and African-Americans

d)

To set up multi-cultural communities

15.

Which African country was originally purchased to be a colony for freed slaves?

a)

Ethiopia

b)

Ghana

c)

Liberia

d)

Nigeria

16.

Which two regions threatened to secede (break away) from America over the issue of slavery?

a)

Mid-Atlantic

b)

New England

c)

The South

d)

The West

17.

What was the nickname given to the eight presidents who did nothing to solve the problem of slavery?

a)

The Do-Nothing Presidents

b)

The Know-Nothing Presidents

18.

Which of the following presidents WAS NOT one of the Do-Nothing Presidents?

a)

Martin Van Buren

b)

James Knox Polk

c)

Franklin Pierce

d)

James Buchanan

e)

Abraham Lincoln