WorksheetsCompromise of 1850 and Related Events Quiz
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Who was called “The Great Compromiser” and helped create the Compromise of 1850?
Roger B. Taney
Henry Clay
John Brown
Charles Sumner
Which President signed the Compromise of 1850 into law?
Abraham Lincoln
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?
New states must be free
Enslaved people could vote
Runaways must be returned to owners
Slavery ended in all territories
What is popular sovereignty?
Congress decides slavery
Voters in a territory decide slavery
Only Presidents decide slavery
Supreme Court decides slavery
Which act repealed the Missouri Compromise?
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Reconstruction Act
Emancipation Act
“Bleeding Kansas” refers to—
A Civil War battle
The end of slavery
Violence over slavery in Kansas
Election riots
Which political party formed to stop the spread of slavery?
Democrats
Whigs
Know-Nothing Party
Republican Party
Which enslaved man sued for his freedom?
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Dred Scott
Denmark Vesey
The Supreme Court ruled African Americans were not citizens in—
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board
Dred Scott v. Sandford
McCulloch v. Maryland
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
John Brown
Henry Clay
Charles Sumner
Stephen A. Douglas
Which event tried to spark a slave rebellion by taking a federal armory?
Brooks attacks Sumner
Compromise of 1850
John Brown’s raid
Lincoln’s inauguration
Who was Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case?
John Jay
Roger Sherman
Roger B. Taney
Andrew Johnson
Who was beaten with a cane in the Senate after speaking against slavery?
John Brown
Charles Sumner
Andrew Johnson
William Lloyd Garrison
Which state was first to secede after Lincoln’s election?
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
Virginia
