WorksheetsCompromise's over slavery
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
1) Which statement BEST summarizes the influence of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The book’s shocking and emotional details turned many Northerners against slavery.
The book’s shocking and emotional details turned many Northerners against slaves.
The book’s shocking and emotional details turned many Southerners against slavery.
2) Who was known as the “Great Compromiser” for his role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
James Gadsden
Franklin Pierce
Stephen Douglas
Henry Clay
3) Which statement accurately explains the reasons for the Compromise of 1850?
The Missouri Compromise broke down, and a new plan was needed for Kansas and Nebraska.
The territory of California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, and California's entry would upset the balance between free and slave states.
The Fugitive Slave Act had become an issue between the North and South, and a compromise was needed to resolve it.
There was a dispute of boundaries with Mexico, and the United States wanted to build a railroad on the disputed land.
4) Which item was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?
Texas gave up its claim to the New Mexico Territory, but received $10 million in compensation.
The territories of Kansas and Nebraska chose whether or not to allow slavery.
A strong Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
Slavery continued in Washington D.C., but the slave trade was prohibited there.
The territories of Utah and New Mexico chose whether or not to allow slavery.
5) Which statement BEST describes the impact of the Compromise of 1850?
The compromise resolved the issues between the North and South until the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed.
The compromise kept the North and South together for a little loner, and the Gadsden Purchase decreased tensions between them.
The compromise resolved the issues between the North and South until the Gadsden Purchase was approved.
The compromise kept the North and South together for a little longer, but the Fugitive Slave Act increased tensions between them.
6) How did the Fugitive Slave Act impact African Americans?
It guaranteed a trial by jury for enslaved African Americans captured in the North.
It prohibited slave owners and slave traders from tracking runaway slave in the North.
It jeopardized the safety of African Americans in the North, forcing many to flee to Canada.
It allowed enslaved African Americans to purchase their freedom, once they escaped to the North.
7) What was the significance of the Gadsden Purchase?
It showed that popular sovereignty did not work as a way to resolve the problem of slavery.
It allowed the United States to resolve the disputes between Kansas and Nebraska.
It allowed the United States to gain land needed for a southern transcontinental railroad.
It showed that the Compromise of 1850 overruled the Missouri Compromise.
8) Why did Stephen Douglas propose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
to win Southern support for the Gadsden Purchase.
to win Southern support for incorporating western territories into the Union
to win Southern support for passing the Fugitive Slave Act
to win Southern support for the Compromise of 1850
9) What event is known as "Bleeding Kansas"?
violence in Kansas between American Indians and African Americans
violence in Kansas between American Indians and white settlers
violence in Kansas between abolitionists and anti-slavery settlers
violence in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
10) _______ led to a split between Northern and Southern Whigs.
The Gadsden Purchase
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Compromise of 1850
11) Northern Whigs opposed or supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Opposed
Supported
12) Southern Whigs opposed or supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Supported
Opposed
13) The split of the Whig Party led to the rise of the _________, which was formed by the Northern Whigs.
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Communist Party
14) Why did "Bleeding Kansas" occur?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed new settlers to Kansas and Nebraska to bring slaves with them even though slavery was not allowed there.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed abolitionists to establish an underground railroad to help free slaves in Kansas and Nebraska.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the Fugitive Slave Act to be enforced within the borders of Kansas and Nebraska.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed popular sovereignty to determine whether or not Kansas and Nebraska would be slave territories or free territories.
15) Which statement accurately describes the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
It effectively overturned the terms of the Gadsden Purchase.
It effectively overturned the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act.
It effectively overturned the terms of the Missouri Compromise.
It effectively overturned the terms of the Compromise of 1850.
16) Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Fredrick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sojourner Truth
17) What effect did Uncle Tom's Cabin have?
In the North it was seen as an exaggerated view of slavery.
In the South it helped to increase support for the abolitionists.
In the North it was ignored by abolitionists as it was a fictional work.
In the South it was rejected as an unfair and exaggerated view of slavery.
18) What was Harriet Beecher Stowe's fathers profession?
Slave trader and anti-abolitionist leader.
Textile manufacture and states rights advocate.
Religious leader and abolitionist.
19) Who would become a prominent member of the newly formed Republican Party?
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Supreme Leader Natland
The Golden God
The Destroyer of Worlds
20) Because Northern states thought the Gadsden Purchase was meant to add more slave territory, what resulted in the end?
The Gadsden Purchase did not happen.
The Gadsden Purchase remained the same.
The Gadsden Purchase involved a smaller piece of land than originally planned.
The Gadsden Purchas began the Civil War.
Which state entered the Union as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
California
Maine
Missouri
Texas
Which politician from Kentucky was instrumental in creating the Compromise of 1850? Hint: He also was key in passing the Missouri Compromise in 1820,
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams
John C. Calhoun
Abraham Lincoln
The idea that political power belongs to the people is called_____________________, and allows the people to make decisions about who will represent them in government and what laws will be established.
Popular Sovereignty
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Separation of Powers
What term means to formally withdraw from something? Like when slave states wanted to leave the United States.
cede
secede
repeal
annex
Where was the safest place for a runaway slaves to go after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850?
Virginia
Canada
California
Pennsylvania
According to the Compromise of 1850, which two territories were allowed to decide for themselves on the issue of allowing or banning slavery by popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
California and Oregon
Oklahoma and Texas
Michigan and Ohio
Which part of the nation would be most in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The Northern free states
The Southern slave states
California
The states in New England
Sectionalism occurs when people favor the interests of one section of the country over the interests of the entire country. The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act that followed ____________________________________.
increased sectional tensions in the United States
decreased sectional tensions in the United States
kept sectional tensions between the north and the south about the same
