US History Antebellum Test 8

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History Test 8 (Us Antebellum) K-12 to University (USA History) USA — Us Antebellum USA History Standards & AP

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Question 1

When was gag rule?

A) 1836 to 1844

B) 1820s

C) 1850s

D) 1860s

Question 2

Which of the following best defines the Wilmot Proviso?

A) War funds

B) 1846 slavery ban bid

C) Peace treaty

D) Land sale

Question 3

Which term means "1846 slavery ban bid"?

A) the Missouri Compromise

B) the gag rule

C) the Wilmot Proviso

D) Nat Turner's revolt

Question 4

Who ran South Democrats?

A) Douglas

B) Bell

C) Everett

D) John Breckinridge

Question 5

Provide the definition of the Liberty Party:

A) 1840 antislavery party

B) Proslavery

C) Labor group

D) Farm bloc

Question 6

What was the caning?

A) Debate win

B) 1856 Sumner beating

C) Duel

D) Fistfight

Question 7

What was the Missouri Compromise?

A) Free all

B) Slave all

C) 1820 slavery line

D) No line

Question 8

Which of the following best defines Freeport Doctrine?

A) Lincoln joke

B) Court ruling

C) Party plank

D) Douglas popular twist

Question 9

What was the Crittenden plan?

A) Failed 1860 compromise

B) War plan

C) Secession pact

D) Trade deal

Question 10

Which of the following best defines Kansas-Nebraska?

A) Free states

B) 1854 popular sovereignty

C) Slave states

D) No territory

Question 11

What died with Kansas-Nebraska?

A) Fugitive law

B) Dred Scott

C) Missouri line

D) Gag rule

Question 12

What was Free Soil?

A) Proslavery

B) Gold seekers

C) Rail builders

D) 1848 no-expansion party

Question 13

How did North see Brown?

A) Martyr many

B) Villain all

C) Ignored

D) Mocked

Question 14

Who won 1860?

A) Douglas

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Breckinridge

D) Bell

Question 15

What was Prigg v. Pennsylvania?

A) Freeing all

B) Banning hunts

C) 1842 fugitive ruling

D) State victory

Question 16

Which of the following best defines Fugitive Slave Act?

A) Freeing runaways

B) Northern veto

C) Court mercy

D) 1850 forced returns

Question 17

What best defines the Wilmot Proviso?

A) 1846 slavery ban bid

B) War funds

C) Peace treaty

D) Land sale

Question 18

Name the person who pushed Kansas-Nebraska.

A) Lincoln

B) Stephen Douglas

C) Chase

D) Sumner

Question 19

Which person argued Amistad?

A) Calhoun

B) Clay

C) John Quincy Adams

D) Webster

Question 20

Which person ran Constitutional Union?

A) Everett alone

B) Houston

C) Crittenden

D) John Bell

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