WorksheetsAttempts To Abolish Slavery quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who did Nat Turner say told him to lead 70 slaves in Virginia in an uprising that killed 55 white men, women, & children.
God
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Lewis and Clark
What state nullified the Tariff of 1828 and was later the first to succeed the union?
North Carolina
Virginia
South Carolina
Florida
What State became a "Free-State" in the Compromise of 1850?
Maine
Missouri
Texas
California
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to a wave of settlers moving to territories and large in crease in violence that was called __________?
Civil War
Bleeding Kansas
Missouri Compromise
Mexican Cession
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fredrick Douglas
Sojourner Truth
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the ________.
Transcontinental Railroad
Underground Railroad
Freedom Path
Trail of Tears
A series of highly-publicized debates in 1858 between two Illinois senatorial candidates
Abraham-Douglas Debates
Grant-Lee Debates
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln-Stephen Debates
A Supreme Court decision that determined that because slaves were property, they did not have a legal right to sue in a court of law
the Linda Brown Decision
the Adolph Plessy Decision
the Ozie Powell Decision
the Dredd Scott Decision
The states that seceded from the Union to create their own country during the Civil War
the Confraternal States of America
the Southern States of America
the Seceded States of America
the Confederate States of America
Where did the first attack happen that led the nation into Civil War?
Fort Lee
Fort Sumter
Fort McHenry
Fort Grant
In What year did the Civil War officially Begin?
1860
1861
1863
1864
What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?
a. provide safety for escaped slaves
b. ban slavery in Washington
c. force all Americans to help catch escaped slaves
d. replacing slaves through the transatlantic slave trade
Which of the following describes the concept of “popular sovereignty?”
a. Congress has the right to decide where slavery shall and shall not exist.
b. The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.
c. Individual citizens can decide for themselves whether or not to hold slaves.
d. Individual states have the right to reject congressional decisions pertaining to slavery.
In 1860 and 1861, seven Southern states seceded from the Union in protest of the
a. Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott
b. Lincoln’s handling of Fort Sumter
c. election of Abraham Lincoln as president
d. Bleeding Kansas
In the years prior to the Civil War, the South
a. had become more urban than the North
b. had widespread education
c. was rich in manufacturing
d. had a sparse population compared to the North
Who won the election of 1860?
a. John Bell
b. Stephen Douglas
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. John Breckinridge
What was the network of homes and people who helped slaves to escape to the North?
a. Underground Railroad
b. Freedom Road
c. North Star
d. Escape Houses
When was gold first discovered in California?
a. 1829
b. 1848
c. 1849
d. 1850
Which of the observations about the Dred Scott decision is true?
a. It stated that black people were not citizens of the United States.
b. It upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise.
c. It upheld the principle of popular sovereignty.
d. It freed Scott, but not other slaves in circumstances similar to Scott’
During his 1858 senatorial election debates of Illinois, Abraham Lincoln argued that...
a. slavery was a moral issue
b. whites and African Americans should have social and political equality
c. slavery should be prohibited in the South
d. southern states should secede
What was the greatest impact of John Brown’s raid?
a. Northerners and Southerners reached a temporary “cease fire”
b. the raid deepened the division between North and south
c. the raid caused the decline of the Whig Party
d. the federal government agreed to let state governments decide all slavery issues
Who were the 49ers?
a. gold miners
b. first football team in the west
c. local Californians
d. freedom fighters
An abolitionist who planned for a slave revolt by raiding Harper's Ferry (an arsenal).
Stephen Douglas
James Buchanan
John Brown
James Polk
He was a senator from Mississippi and was elected the president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Roger Taney
He sued for his freedom, leading to a Supreme Court decision that declared slaves were property and they could be taken into any free U.S. territory.
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman
Dred Scott
Roger Taney
