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Lessons 21-25
Test Description: US History Mr Ryan and Ms. Le Vine
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Who was Joseph Cinque
A
Spanish man who bought the Amistad Africans
B
main lawyer who defended the Amistad Africans
C
started England's slave trade in 1562
D
leader of the Amistad Africans
2) Who helped defend the Amistad Africans?
A
Spanish Government
B
Abolitionists
C
President Van Buren
D
Southern Slaveholders
3) Why did President Van Buren want to return Aficans to Cuba?
A
He was afraid of them
B
He strongly supported slavery
C
He would be paid a lot ofmoney to di it
D
He didn't want to upset southern slaveholders
4) Which of the following Senatros felt the Compromise of 1850 did not support the South enough?
A
Stephen Douglas
B
Henry Clay
C
John C. Calhoun
D
Daniel Webster
5) Who introduced the Compromise of 1850
A
John C. Calhoun
B
Henry Clay
C
Daniel Webster
D
Stephen Douglas
6) Why were northerners upset when Daniel Webster voted in favor of the Compromise of 1850?
A
Webster's vote supported the fugitive slave law
B
Webster's vote showed he agreeed with John C. Calhoun
C
Webster's vote showed that he supported Civil War
D
Webster never voted
7) Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slve state, and Maine a free state. What else did the Missouri Compromise do?
A
instituted popular sovereignty
B
enforce fugitive slave law
C
admitted California as a free state
D
Prohibited slavery in Louisiana
8) What was the right of residents to vote whether their territory would enter the Union as free or slave state?
A
States' rights
B
popular sovereignty
C
Free Soil
D
Right of Secession
9) What new political party formed against the spread of slavery in the western territories?
A
Republican Party
B
Whig Party
C
Free Soil Party
D
Southern Democrat Party
10) Who was responsible for Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A
Daniel Webster
B
Preston Brooks
C
Stephen A Douglas
D
Henry Clay
11) Why did some southerners champion the action of Preston Brooks?
A
He debated and defeated Abraham Lincoln
B
He almost caned to death Senator Charles Sumner
C
He massacred proslavery settlers
D
He began a new political party
12) Who led his followers to kidnap and murder five proslavery settlers in Kansas?
A
Stephen Douglas
B
John Brown
C
Frederick Douglas
D
Dred Scott
13) Why was Kansas called Bleeding Kansas?
A
Border ruffians and Free-Soilers fought duels to settle the issue of slavery
B
Free state artillery fired on Kansas' s towns
C
Proslavery people fought antislavery people in a civil war
D
John Brown beat up CHarles Sumner in Kansas Senate
14) On what grounds did Dred Scott go to court to sue for his freedom?
A
He had escaped from his southern owner to freedom in the north
B
He had never been enslaved
C
his parents had been free so he deserved freedom
D
he should be free because he had lived in a free state
15) What did Chief Justice Roger Taney say in his opinion in the Dred Scott Case?
A
blacks could remain free if they lived in a free stte for five years
B
blacks had no rights to citizenships
C
Blacks were citizens and deserved all the rights of citizenships
D
blacks were included in the Constitution's statement that all men are created equal
16) What made the MIssouri Compromise unconstitutional?
A
Slavery in the Territories Act
B
Kansas - Nebraska Act
C
Compromise of 1850
D
Dred Scott Decision
17) Why was Oberlin a popular destinatino on the Underground Railroad
A
Many residents were against slavery
B
It was in Canada
C
Harriet Tubman lived there
D
Slave catchers never went there
18) Who escaped slavery from deep in the South by pretending to be an injured white man?
A
John Price
B
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
C
Harriet Tubman
D
Ellen Craft
19) What did abolitionists want?
A
to end slavery immediately
B
to buy slaves and set them free
C
to gradually end slavery
D
to help slave catchers return fugitice slaves to their owners
20) Between what years was the Underground Railroad most active?
A
1780 and 1800
B
1880 and 1900
C
1680 and 1700
D
1840 and 1860
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