a failed attempt by John Brown to end slavery

Put the sectional compromises in the correct order

Missouri Comp-> Comp 1850->Kansas-Nebraska Act

The caning of Senator Charles Sumner

In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?

The Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the US

helped bring about prison reform

The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were attempts by the federal government to

reduce the conflict over slavery

Which statement about the Missouri Compromise (1820) is most accurate?

It was made unconstitutional by the Dred Scott decision

Which event led directly to the secession of several Southern states from the Union?

election of Abraham Lincoln as president

Which statement is a true statement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and women's rights leader.

During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they

feared the admission of new slave states

Which was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850

Dred Scott was considered property

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1
Harper's Ferry was
a popular novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
a failed attempt by John Brown to end slavery
a successful slave revolt in Virginia
The name of William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper
2
Who was NOT an abolitionist
Frederick Douglas
Stephen Douglas
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
3
The principle of popular sovereignty was an important part of the
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Mexican American War
Gag Rule
Indian Removal Act
4
Put the sectional compromises in the correct order
Kansas-Nebraska Act->Missouri Comp ->Comp 1850
Comp 1850-> Kansas-Nebraska Act-> Missouri Comp
Comp 1850 -> Missouri Comp-> Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Comp-> Comp 1850->Kansas-Nebraska Act
5
Which constitutional principle was a focus of the North–South conflicts prior to the Civil War?
separation of powers
presidential veto power
due process of the law
states rights
6
The cartoon is about
The Dred Scott decision
John C. Calhoun's threat of secession
The caning of Senator Charles Sumner
Bleeding Kansas
7
In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?
More factory jobs were available in Canada
The Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the US
Northern abolitionists refused to help fugitive slaves.
They feared being drafted into the Northern army
8
Dorothea Dix
wrote a popular novel
organized the Seneca Falls Convention
was useful on the underground railroad
helped bring about prison reform
9
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, & Sojourner Truth all supported
abolitionist movement
nullification theory of states rights
black codes
plantation system in the south
10
The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were attempts by the federal government to
limit immigration from Europe
control the migration of settlers to new western territories
settle border disputes with Mexico
reduce the conflict over slavery
11
Which statement about the Missouri Compromise (1820) is most accurate?
The 36°30' line formed a boundary between the US and Canada.
Slavery was banned west of the Mississippi River.
territories would be governed by the US and Great Britain.
It was made unconstitutional by the Dred Scott decision
12
Which event led directly to the secession of several Southern states from the Union?
election of Abraham Lincoln as president
publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
violence in Kansas over the spread of slavery
raid by John Brown at Harpers Ferry
13
Which statement is a true statement
Abe Lincoln defeated Stephen Douglass in the 1858 Senate race
Border Ruffians supported the free soil movement
Fredrick Douglass's newspaper was called the Liberator
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and women's rights leader.
14
Which group benefited most directly from the Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?
abolitionists
slave owners
enslaved persons
immigrants
15
Which abolitionist wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Lucretia Mott
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass
16
During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they
supported an isolationist foreign policy
were concerned with the rights of Native Americans
feared the admission of new slave states
wanted to limit the power of the national government
17
Which was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850
No more slave trade in D.C.
California admitted as a free state
a strict fugitive slave law
Dred Scott was considered property

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