US History Antebellum Test 7

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History Test 7 (Us Antebellum) K-12 to University (USA History) USA — Us Antebellum USA History Standards & AP

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Question 1

Provide the definition of Fugitive Slave Act:

A) 1850 forced returns

B) Freeing runaways

C) Northern veto

D) Court mercy

Question 2

Who caned Sumner?

A) Butler

B) Preston Brooks

C) Mason

D) Toombs

Question 3

What best defines the gag rule?

A) Free debate

B) More petitions

C) Banning slavery petitions

D) Court review

Question 4

Which term means "1848 no-expansion party"?

A) the Missouri Compromise

B) the gag rule

C) Nat Turner's revolt

D) Free Soil

Question 5

What best defines Kansas-Nebraska?

A) 1854 popular sovereignty

B) Free states

C) Slave states

D) No territory

Question 6

Who raided Harpers Ferry?

A) Lee

B) John Brown

C) Stuart

D) Wise

Question 7

What was Bleeding Kansas?

A) Peaceful vote

B) Flood

C) 1854 to 1859 violence

D) Drought

Question 8

What was Nat Turner's revolt?

A) Peace march

B) Labor strike

C) Tax revolt

D) 1831 slave uprising

Question 9

Who wrote Dred Scott?

A) Roger Taney

B) Curtis

C) McLean

D) Nelson

Question 10

Which of the following best defines the Missouri Compromise?

A) Free all

B) 1820 slavery line

C) Slave all

D) No line

Question 11

What line did Missouri set?

A) Mason-Dixon

B) Equator

C) 36-30 parallel

D) 49th parallel

Question 12

Who attacked Pottawatomie?

A) Quantrill

B) Lane

C) Geary

D) John Brown

Question 13

Provide the definition of Nat Turner's revolt:

A) 1831 slave uprising

B) Peace march

C) Labor strike

D) Tax revolt

Question 14

What best defines the Compromise of 1850?

A) War declaration

B) Clay's package deal

C) Secession pact

D) Trade deal

Question 15

Which term means "1820 slavery line"?

A) the gag rule

B) Nat Turner's revolt

C) the Missouri Compromise

D) the Amistad case

Question 16

What best defines the Missouri Compromise?

A) Free all

B) Slave all

C) No line

D) 1820 slavery line

Question 17

Who caught Brown?

A) Robert E. Lee

B) Stuart alone

C) Wise

D) Militia

Question 18

Which person ran Free Soil?

A) Taylor

B) Martin Van Buren

C) Cass

D) Hale

Question 19

Name the person who argued Amistad.

A) Calhoun

B) Clay

C) John Quincy Adams

D) Webster

Question 20

Name the person who ran Constitutional Union.

A) Everett alone

B) Houston

C) Crittenden

D) John Bell

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