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Compromise of 1850 and Related Events Quiz

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was called “The Great Compromiser” and helped create the Compromise of 1850?

a)

Roger B. Taney

b)

Henry Clay

c)

John Brown

d)

Charles Sumner

2.

Which President signed the Compromise of 1850 into law?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Millard Fillmore

c)

James Buchanan

d)

Franklin Pierce

3.

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?

a)

New states must be free

b)

Enslaved people could vote

c)

Runaways must be returned to owners

d)

Slavery ended in all territories

4.

What is popular sovereignty?

a)

Congress decides slavery

b)

Voters in a territory decide slavery

c)

Only Presidents decide slavery

d)

Supreme Court decides slavery

5.

Which act repealed the Missouri Compromise?

a)

Fugitive Slave Act

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Reconstruction Act

d)

Emancipation Act

6.

“Bleeding Kansas” refers to—

a)

A Civil War battle

b)

The end of slavery

c)

Violence over slavery in Kansas

d)

Election riots

7.

Which political party formed to stop the spread of slavery?

a)

Democrats

b)

Whigs

c)

Know-Nothing Party

d)

Republican Party

8.

Which enslaved man sued for his freedom?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Dred Scott

d)

Denmark Vesey

9.

The Supreme Court ruled African Americans were not citizens in—

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board

c)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

d)

McCulloch v. Maryland

10.

Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

John Brown

b)

Henry Clay

c)

Charles Sumner

d)

Stephen A. Douglas

11.

Which event tried to spark a slave rebellion by taking a federal armory?

a)

Brooks attacks Sumner

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

John Brown’s raid

d)

Lincoln’s inauguration

12.

Who was Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case?

a)

John Jay

b)

Roger Sherman

c)

Roger B. Taney

d)

Andrew Johnson

13.

Who was beaten with a cane in the Senate after speaking against slavery?

a)

John Brown

b)

Charles Sumner

c)

Andrew Johnson

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

14.

Which state was first to secede after Lincoln’s election?

a)

Georgia

b)

Alabama

c)

South Carolina

d)

Virginia