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Quiz on Lesson 1
The Compromise of 1850
1. A compromise is
a. a way to settle an argument when both sides give a little to get a part of what they want.
b. when a settlement can not be reached between two groups.
2. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 ____________to enter the Union as a free state.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Missouri
Florida
Maine
Arkansas
Michigan
3. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed ____________ to enter the Union as a slave state.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Missouri
Maine
Arkansas
Michigan
4. Which of the following states was NOT admitted to the Union between 1836 and 1850?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Arkansas
Michigan
Florida
Texas
Tennessee
Iowa
Wisconsin
5. When California asked to be admitted to the Union, the Missouri Compromise was tested because
_________________________________.
a. half of California was in a free territory and the other half was in a slave territory
b. California outlawed slavery
c. California was extremely large
6. Under the Compromise of 1850, the state of ________________ came into the Union as a free state.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Utah
New Mexico
South California
North California
7. Under the Compromise of 1850 the south got a promise that Utah and New Mexico could
_______________________________.
a. be free states
b. decided for themselves whether they wanted slavery or not
c. be slave states
8. The South got a new law called the ______________ which said that any slaves escaping from the
south to freedom in the north should be returned to their masters.
a. Runaway Slave Law
b. Fugitive Slave Law
Quiz on Lesson 2
Slavery
1. The first slaves were brought to the ________
Colony by the Dutch.
a. Jamestown
b. Massachusetts
c. Rhode Island
2. Most slaves who worked in the fields of the South worked from _________________ .
a. sunrise to supper time
b. breakfast to supper
c. sunrise to sunset
3. Most of the slave states were in the _______________.
a. North
b. South
4. Most of the free states were in the ________________.
a. North
b. South
5._______________________ out of 6,000,000 Southerners owned slaves.
a. 350,000
b. 3,000,000
c. 4,000,000
6. Fewer than ________________ had 100 or more slaves.
a. 20
b. 2000
c. 2,000,000
7. Most slave owner only had about ______ slaves.
a.
b.
c.
d.
2
4
50
100
8. By 1850 only slaves_______________ were living in the North.
a. 250
b. 25
c. 2500
Quiz on Lesson 3
Rebellion
1. Nat Turner's slave uprising left many blacks and whites dead.
____________ True ____________ False
2. Two slaves who started slave uprisings were Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman.
____________ True ____________ False
3. In the year 1831 Nat Turner led the largest slave uprising in history. In it more than _____________
whites died.
a. 60
b. 100
c. 600
4. Nat Turner hid for 6 weeks after the rebellion. He was finally captured by _____________ .
a. the sheriff
b. his master
c. dogs
5. Nat Turner was tried and found _____________.
a. guilty
b. innocent
6. Nat Turners's punishment was _____________.
a. life in prison
b. a whipping
c. hanging
7. In 1790 a good field hand cost _____________.
a. $30
b. $300
c. $3000
8. By 1860 a good field hand cost _____________.
a. $20
b. $200
c. $2000
Quiz on Lesson 4
Abolitionists
1. People called abolitionists were against slavery.
__________True __________False
2. The Underground Railroad helped take slaves to the South.
__________True __________False
3. Frederick Douglass wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
__________True __________False
4. Uncle Tom's Cabin was banned in the North.
__________True __________False
5. The abolitionists wanted to do away with slavery. They formed the _____________Society in 1833.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Freed Men
National Antislavery
Liberator
Society in 1833
6. Because of the Fugitive Slave Law, the abolitionists had to send slaves further north to
______________ .
a. Maine
b. Canada
c. the North Pole
7. One black woman named
__________________ helped more than 300 slaves to escape.
a. Harriet Tubman
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Write the letter of the correct match on the right.
8.
__________ William Lloyd Garrison
9.
__________ Box Brown
10.
__________ Frederick Douglass
11.
__________ Harriet Tubman
12.
__________ Harriet Beecher Stowe
13.
__________ Simon Legree
a. wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
b. killed Uncle Tom
c. editor of The Liberator
d. guided more than 300 people on
the Underground Railroad
e. mailed himself to freedom
f. ex-slave writer and speaker
14. Under the Fugitive Slave Law people in the North had to:
a.
b.
c.
d.
help slaves get to Canada.
run the Underground Railroad.
own slaves themselves.
help bounty hunters catch slaves in the North.
Quiz on Lesson 5
Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott Case
1. This lesson was mainly about:
a. a slave named Dred Scott was freed by the Supreme Court.
b. runaway slaves had to be returned to the South.
c. the question of slavery was splitting up the Union.
2. Warfare broke out in "Bleeding Kansas" over
a. whether people from the North or the South should be allowed to come there.
b. whether Uncle Tom's Cabin was a good book or not.
c. whether the state should be slave or free.
3. The Dred Scott case was decided by the Supreme Court. The court said that:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Scott was a free man.
a slave was property and could not sue anyone.
slavery was to be outlawed in the state Scott came from.
Scott should never have been made a slave.
4. The ___________Act created two new states and repealed the Compromise of 1850.
a. Kansas-Nebraska
b. Compromise of 1854
c. Bleeding Kansas
5. The big issue in the Presidential election of 1856 was ______________.
a. the railroad
b. slavery
c. emigrants coming to America
6. The Presidential election of 1856 was won by _________________ .
a. Dred Scott
b. James Buchanan
c. William Lloyd Garrison
Quiz on Lesson 8
Abe Lincoln
1. The main issue of the election for President in 1860 was:
a.
b.
c.
d.
how many new states should be made.
whether to make a railroad from S. Louis to California.
slavery.
whether to print more U. S. dollars.
2. During the election campaign, Lincoln was in favor of:
a. freeing all the slaves.
b. allowing slavery everywhere in the United States.
c. no slavery in the territories and new states, but keeping it in the states where it already
d.
was.
passing a new Kansas-Nebraska Act.
3. Lincoln was afraid that the slavery issue would:
a.
b.
c.
d.
lead to a break-up of the Union, with the southern states forming a new nation.
kill thousands of white people.
spread to Canada and Europe.
cause England to go to war with the United States.
Finish the chart below by putting in the number of electoral votes for each candidate.
Candidate
4. Lincoln
5. Breckenridge
6. Bell
7. Douglas
Electoral Votes
Quiz on Lesson 9
The Confederacy is Formed and Fort Sumter
1. The first state to leave the Union was__________________.
a. South Carolina
b. Mississippi
c. Florida
2. The first state to leave the Union left on _______________________ .
a.
b.
c.
d.
December
December
December
December
25,
20,
25,
20,
1859
1959
1860
1860
3. Name another state that left the Union shortly after South Carolina.
_______________________________
4. Which was NOT a reason the South gave for leaving the Union?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The United States had broken the Constitution.
The United States failed to enforce the Fugitive Slave Laws.
Robert E. Lee was not President.
The government would not allow slavery in the new territories.
5. The Civil War began with the southern troops firing on____________________ .
a. Fort Sumter
b. Gettysburg
c. Richmond
6. The Civil War begin in the state of _______________________ .
a.
b.
c.
d.
Virginia
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Mississippi