1. This vocabulary word means voting rights.

• A) emigrant• B) abolition• C) suffrage• D) transcendentalism

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2. The movement to end slavery was called __________.

• A) suffrage• B) popular sovereignty• C) transcendentalism• D) abolition

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3. What person escaped from slavery, became a well-respected speaker, traveled overseas, and published an

antislavery newspaper?

• A) Lloyd Garrison• B) Frederick Douglass• C) John Brown• D) Harriet Tubman

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4. Why did white Southerners NOT want slaves to learn to read?

• A) No colleges accepted African Americans.

• B) They feared that educated slaves would rebel.

• C) Reading was not a skill slaves would use.

• D) There was a shortage of available books.

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5. For what reason is Harriet Tubman famous?

• A) She gave a speech at Seneca Falls.

• B) She helped people with mental illness.

• C) She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

• D) She wrote abolitionist poetry.

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6. This is associated with expanded rights for women including the right to vote.

• A) Sack of Lawrence

• B) Kansas-Nebraska Act

• C) Dred Scott case

• D) Seneca Falls Convention

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7. She was an antislavery reformer who also worked for women’s rights.

• A) Sojourner Truth• B) Mrs. Frederick Douglass• C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton• D) Harriet Tubman

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8. Why did Stanton and Mott organize the Seneca Falls Convention?

• A) because male abolitionists were slow to organize a movement

• B) to win for women the same rights as men

• C) to form an all-female antislavery organization

• D) to win women’s support for more public schools

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9. What did the women’s rights movement and the abolitionist movement have in common?

• A) both began in Seneca Falls

• B) women made up the largest number of supporters

• C) temperance workers supported both movements

• D) both tried to help a group that had been denied their rights by law

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10. The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for _____.

• A) the residents of Kansas & Nebraska vote to decide the issue of slavery

• B) the punishment of slaveholders in Kansas for attacks on antislavery settlers

• C) a ban on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

• D) land in Kansas and Nebraska to be given to escaped slaves

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11. What was the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• A) It caused the proslavery settlers to attack antislavery settlers in Kansas.

• B) It convinced Northerners to support the Fugitive Slave Act.

• C) White Southerners charged that the book did not portray slavery accurately.

• D) It angered Northerners because it described slavery as a positive experience.

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12. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• A) William Lloyd Garrison• B) Harriet Beecher Stowe• C) Sojourner Truth• D) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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13. Stephen A. Douglas tried to win Southern support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act by allowing the issue of slavery in these territories to be settled by ______.

• A) the establishment of the Free Soil Party• B) representative government• C) popular sovereignty• D) primary elections

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14. How were educational opportunities limited for African Americans in the 1800’s?

• A) Horace Mann set up schools for them because he believed in the power of education.

• B) They had to go to special schools also attended by women.

• C) African Americans had to secretly set up their own schools.

• D) It was illegal in the South to teach an enslaved person to read.

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15. What role did John Brown play in the slavery controversy?

• A) He attacked an antislavery senator in the Senate.

• B) He murdered several proslavery settlers in Kansas.

• C) He fought for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• D) He introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in Congress.

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16. What bill unsuccessfully attempted to ban slavery in any territory gained from the War with

Mexico?

• A) Missouri Compromise• B) Wilmot Proviso• C) Compromise of 1850• D) Dred Scott Decision

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17. What bill settled the controversy over slavery in California and the rest of the

Mexican Cession?

• A) Missouri Compromise• B) Dred Scott Decision• C) Compromise of 1850• D) Wilmot Proviso

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18. Which political party was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery?

• A) Federalists• B) Whigs• C) Democratic• D) Free-Soil Party

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19. Which law aroused great opposition and widespread disobedience in the North?

• A) the Emancipation Proclamation• B) the Missouri Compromise• C) the Fugitive Slave Act• D) the Wilmot Proviso

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20. Whose lawsuit to gain freedom was denied in a landmark Supreme Court decision?

• A) Harriet Beecher Stow

• B) Dred Scott

• C) Charles Sumner

• D) Stephen A. Douglas

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21. How did the outbreak of the War with Mexico revive disagreements over

slavery?• A) The South sent slaves to fight in the War with Mexico.

• B) Northerners tried to block the admission of California as a slave state.

• C) Some congressmen wanted to force Mexico to abolish slavery.

• D) Northerners believed Southerners wanted to expand slavery into new lands.

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22. Northerners were unhappy about the fate of which two people?

• A) Dred Scott and John Brown

• B) Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner

• C) Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

• D) John Brown and Preston Brooks

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23. Which of the following was favored by white Southerners but opposed by Northerners?

• A) the Compromise of 1850

• B) the Wilmot Proviso

• C) the Fugitive Slave Act

• D) the Crittenden Plan

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24. Why did John Brown lead an attack on Harpers Ferry?

• A) to get revenge for his brother’s death

• B) to gain weapons to fight the Civil War

• C) to inspire slaves to fight for freedom

• D) to punish those who enforced the Fugitive Slave Act

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25. Which of the following made white Southerners fear that the North would abolish

slavery?• A) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book won the Nobel Peace Prize. • B) The President ordered the army to free Mexican slaves.

• C) Northern abolitionists helped slaves in Mexico to escape.

• D) Northerners in Congress tried to pass the Wilmot Proviso.

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26. What impact did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on the slavery controversy?

• A) It gave a true account of slavery.

• B) White Southerners viewed it as an unfair attack on their lifestyle.

• C) It led to the Fugitive Slave Act being repealed.

• D) The profits from the sale of the books supported runaways.

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27. This political party was dedicated to stopping the spreading of slavery.

• A) Whigs

• B) Free-Soil Party

• C) Libertarian

• D) Jacksonian Democracy

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28. This man was responsible for getting Congress to accept the Compromise of 1850.

• A) David Wilmot

• B) Dred Scott

• C) Stephen A. Douglas

• D) Frederick Douglass

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29. What effect did the Compromise of 1850 have on slavery?

• A) Congress admitted California as a free state.

• B) Congress passed a stronger law to recapture fugitive slaves.

• C) Congress banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• D) All are true.

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30. This settled the controversy over statehood for California and the issue of slavery in territories

gotten from Mexico.

• A) Emancipation Proclamation• B) Wilmot Proviso• C) Compromise of 1850• D) Missouri Compromise

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31. This Northerner supported the Compromise of 1850 in order to keep the

nation from breaking apart.• A) Henry David Thoreau

• B) Daniel Webster

• C) Edgar Allan Poe

• D) Harry Beecher Stowe

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32. This man created a plan to settle the issue of statehood for California that satisfied both

Northerners and Southerners.

• A) James Fenimore Cooper

• B) Dred Scott

• C) William Lloyd Garrison

• D) Henry Clay

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33. What could happen to Northerners who refused to obey the Fugitive Slave

Act?• A) receive a fine and possibly a jail sentence

• B) their property could be seized

• C) they got several warnings before a punishment was given

• D) breaking this law was punishable by death

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34. What was a common symbol used by slaves to guide them to the North?

• A) the planet Venus

• B) a full moon

• C) the North Star

• D) a setting sun

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35. These were used to signal and direct slaves to escape routes.

• A) fires• B) quilts• C) maps with detailed written directions• D) bread crumbs

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36. Henry Brown shipped himself in a ________.

• A) reinforced sack• B) mailing pouch• C) box• D) barrel

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