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