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WorksheetsSlaves in the United States
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
William Lloyd Garrison advanced the abolitionist movement by —
publishing an anti-slavery newspaper
helping slaves to flee north
making Texas a free territory
drafting the Emancipation Proclamation
Which of the following is an example of civil disobedience against the practice of slavery?
Nullification Act
Boston Tea Party
Great Awakening
Underground Railroad
Which of the following best summarizes the Compromise of 1850?
Slavery was to be allowed in all areas of the Mexican Cession.
Slavery was to be outlawed in all areas of the Mexican Cession.
Slavery was to be allowed in California but not Texas.
Slavery was to be allowed in Texas but NOT California
The poster above reflects opposition to federal enactment of the —
Black Codes
Fugitive Slave Law
Jim Crow legislation
Missouri Compromise
To which of the following reform movements does this quotation refer?
Abolition
Temperance
Child labor reform
Women's suffrage
Who of the following was a member of the Republican Party that was formed to fight the practice of slavery in 1854?
Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
John Quincy Adams
Why did the South need slaves, but the North didn't?
Large plantations in the south needed slave labor to profit.
The South didn't want slave labor
Slaves ran the large steel mills and appliance factories in the South
Slave labor was needed to work the mines in the South
What were people who wanted to outlaw slavery called?
Southerners
Federalists
Prohibitionists
Abolitionists
In what state did the first fighting over slavery take place?
Georgia
Virginia
Kansas
New York
A ______________________________________ was a state in which it was legal to own slaves.
Slave state
free state
Union
Confederacy
The ______________________________________ was a system in which abolitionists secretly helped escaping slaves reach freedom.
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction
Free State
Underground Railroad
The ______________________________________________ was President Abraham Lincoln’s order to free slaves in states that were still fighting the Union, and to allow African Americans into the Union army and navy.
Abolitionist
Slave State
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction
Which of the following situations does NOT explain why slaves escaped to freedom?
Slaves were treated badly by their owners.
Slaves did not have the freedom to do what they wanted when they wanted to do it.
Slaves were overworked.
Slaves wanted to escape so they could meet Abraham Lincoln.
A __________________________________________ is a state in which it was not legal to own slaves.
Slave state
Union
free state
Confederacy
Slaves in the United States
A) The Fugitive Slave Act
B) The Missouri Compromise
C) The Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) The Dred Scott Decision
