Whatwas the purpose of the Underground Railroad?

providedslaves with a chance to escape to freedom

Whichof the following best describes a compromise?

a. eachside gives up something they want

Whowas Harriet Tubman?

a. afamous conductor on the Underground Railroad

What best describes the role of sectionalism as it existedpriorto the Civil War?

Southrelied on slave labor to grow crops in their region

Whatquestion did Manifest Destiny create?

a. whetheror not to allow slavery into the West

Whatis popular sovereignty?

votingto decided whether or not to allow slavery

Whichof the following was a part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a. useof popular sovereignty to decide slavery issue

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1
Whatwas the purpose of the Underground Railroad?
carriedthe mail from state to state
carriedrum and molasses from the east coast to the west
providedslaves with a chance to escape to freedom
providedtransportation to the West for settlers
2
Whichof the following best describes a compromise?
warbreaks out
a. everyonegets what they want
a. eachside gives up something they want
a. noone gets what they want
3
Whowas Harriet Tubman?
a. theleader of a raid at Harper’s Ferry
a. afamous conductor on the Underground Railroad
a. theinventor of the cotton gin
a. thepublisher of The Liberator
4
Whichlaw said Maine would enter the Union asa free state &Missouri would as a slave state?
Maine Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
5
What best describes the role of sectionalism as it existedpriorto the Civil War?
a. wealth based on manufacturing and trade in the West
Southrelied on slave labor to grow crops in their region
North wanted cheap land and transportation
Eastwanted to form their own country and allow slavery
6
Whowrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
a. HarrietBeecher Stowe
JohnBrown
a. WilliamLloyd Garrison
HarrietTubman
7
Whichformer slave taught himself to read and write and became an abolitionist?
EliWhitney
a. WilliamLloyd Garrison
JohnBrown
a. FrederickDouglass
8
Whatquestion did Manifest Destiny create?
a. whenwould the land supply run out
a. whetheror not to allow foreigners into the West
a. whetheror not to allow slavery into the West
a. howto tax Native Americans
9
What law said that runaways foundin the North had to be captured and returned to their owners?
a. Compromiseof 1850
a. Missouri Compromise
a. FugitiveSlave Act
a. Kansas-NebraskaAct
10
Whichof the following best describes the goods traded on the Triangular Trade route?
oil, slaves, citrus
rum, slaves, molasses
rum, salt, cattle
molasses, spices, wheat
11
Wholed the failed attempt to supply slaves with guns to use against their masters?
a. EliWhitney
a. WilliamLloyd Garrison
JohnBrown
a. FrederickDouglass
12
Whatis popular sovereignty?
aslave auction
loyaltyto local interests
amethod of obtaining free land
votingto decided whether or not to allow slavery
13
Whichof the following describes a person who wants to end slavery?
popularsovereignty
compromise
plantation
abolitionist
14
Whatwas the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott Case?
a. DredScott was a free man
Slaveowners had to pay their slaves back
Slaves are property for life
a. Allslaves were now free
15
Whichof the following was a part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a. California was made a free state
a. useof popular sovereignty to decide slavery issue
a. slaveswere given the right to vote
a. theFugitive Slave Law

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