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Vocab 6.1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the agreement where Missouri would enter the United States as a slave state, Maine would enter as a free state, and no future slavery above the 36-30 line?

a)

Compromise of 1850.

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act.

c)

Fugitive Slave Law.

d)

Missouri Compromise.

2.

What is the name of the agreement where California would enter the United States as a free state, and the rest of the Mexican Cession would be divided into two territories where the people would decide whether to allow slavery or not (popular sovereignty).

a)

Missouri Compromise.

b)

Compromise of 1850.

c)

Fugitive Slave Law.

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act.

3.

What is the Fugitive Slave Law?

a)

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horrors of slavery. This novel divided the nation.

b)

To formally withdraw (leave) the Union (United States).

c)

The belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government.

d)

Part of the Compromise of 1850. If an enslaved person escaped to the North they could be captured and returned to the South.

4.

Which of the following describes the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

Part of the Compromise of 1850. If an enslaved person escaped to the North they could be captured and returned to the South.

b)

Allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery. It led to violence and “Bleeding Kansas”.

c)

The belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government.

d)

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horrors of slavery. This novel divided the nation.

5.

Which of the following describes an Abolitionist?

a)

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horrors of slavery. This novel divided the nation.

b)

A person who wanted to abolish (get rid of) slavery.

c)

An enslaved person who sued for his freedom.

d)

The belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government.

6.

Which of the following describes Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Part of the Compromise of 1850. If an enslaved person escaped to the North they could be captured and returned to the South.

b)

A person who wanted to abolish (get rid of) slavery.

c)

The belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government.

d)

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horrors of slavery. This novel divided the nation.

7.

Sued for his freedom.


Supreme Court said that enslaved people were not citizens.


Congress could not ban slavery.


The points above describe which event?

a)

Missouri Compromise.

b)

Compromise of 1850.

c)

Dred Scott case.

d)

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address.

8.

Speech by Abraham Lincoln.


Did not want to ban slavery where it already existed.


Wanted to keep the union together.


The points above describe which event?

a)

Lincoln's Inaugural Address.

b)

Dred Scott Case.

c)

Uncle Tom's Cabin.

d)

States' Rights.

9.

Which of the following describes States' Rights?

a)

A person who wanted to abolish (get rid of) slavery.

b)

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horrors of slavery. This novel divided the nation.

c)

The first speech given by Abraham Lincoln as president. Lincoln did not plan to abolish slavery, he just wanted to keep the United States together.

d)

The belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government.

10.

What does "Secede" mean?

a)

To formally withdraw (leave) the Union (United States).

b)

A person who wanted to abolish (get rid of) slavery.

c)

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horrors of slavery.

d)

Part of the Compromise of 1850. If an enslaved person escaped to the North they could be captured and returned to the South.