Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 was made to overule and replace the Compromise of 1820. True or False?
True
False
True
What are one of the punishments to an escaped slave?
A) Whippings
B) Torture
C) All of the above
C) All of the above
Settlers in the territories used "popular sovereignty" to decide whether slavery was legal or not. True or False?
True
False
True
The frame of the Constitution was made for both black and white people to be treated as equals. True or False?
True
False
False
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the union on December 20, 1860. True or False?
True
False
True
What state wanted approval to join as a free state in the union that upset the balance of the Missouri Compromise?
A) New Mexico
B) California
C) Texas
B) California
How much money were settlers fined with if they didn't bring back slaves they caught trying to escape?
A) $200
B) $1500
C) $1000
C) $1000
Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act initially made?
A) to help fight the battle of slavery
B) to build a northern route of the transconstitutional railroad
C) to build new houses and landmarks
B) to build a northern route of the transconstitutional railroad
What was the final ruling in 1857 of the Dred Scott case?
A) Dred Scott was free
B) Living in a free territory did not entitle him to his freedom
C) Living in a free territory did entitle him to his freedom
B) Living in a free territory did not entitle him to his freedom
In how much time after the election did the first secession convention meet?
A) 9 weeks
B) 1 month
C) 6 weeks
C) 6 weeks
What were the two states that had the choice between slavery, and anti-slavery?
A) Texas and Florida
B) Utah and California
C) Utah and New Mexico
C) Utah and New Mexico
What other charges were people who helped slaves escape fined?
A) money
B) money, jail and possibly charged for treason
C) jail and possibly charged for treason
B) money, jail and possibly charged for treason
What violent conflict did the Kansas-Nebraska Act mark the beginning of?
A) Pottawatomie Massacre
B) Bleeding Kansas
C) John Brown's raid
B) Bleeding Kansas
What group did the courts ruiling anger?
A) pro-slavery forces
B) anti-slavery forces
B) anti-slavery forces
What set off the slaveholding across the south?
A) John Brown's raid
B) Lincolns victory at the election
C) the anti-slavery movement
B) Lincolns victory at the election
Fill in the blank.
This new proposal also defined the ___ boundry lines, abolished slave trade in the district of columbia, and forced the entire country to copperate in the capture and release of slaves
Texas
What novel did the fugative slave act cause?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was one main opponent that was strongly against the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A) Charles Sumner
B) John Brown
C) Fredrick Douglass
A) Charles Sumner
What did the Dred-Scott case give momentum for?
A) Anti-slavery movement
B) Bleeding Kansas
C) John Brown's raid
A) Anti-slavery movement
How many states had joined the Confederacy by March?
6 states
How did the Compromise of 1850 lead to the Civil War?
A) pushed the nation further against slavery, South feared it North craved it
B) created disagreements
C) forced many states to begin seceeding from the union
A) pushed the nation further against slavery, South feared it, North craved it
What was one punishment that captured slaves had to go through other than whippings and torture?
being sold away from their plantation, imprisonment, and multination
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to the Civil War? Choose two answers.
A) Destroyed political compromises
B) Repealing the missouri compromise
C) Fighting during “Bleeding Kansas”
D) Opened up the land to expansion of slavery
E) Caused the formation of the confederation
A) Destroyed political compromises
D) Opened up the land to expansion of slavery
Why were abolitionist so angered about the courts ruling?
Abolitionists saw the ruling as a way to stop the debate about slavery.
Why was the formation of the Confederacy such a big deal?
caused many states to start secedeing, sparked conflict between the union