Sectionalism and Slavery

Which condition did both slaves and free blacks in the United States experience in the antebellum period?

• Both groups were allowed to testify in court

• Both groups were able to vote in elections

• Both groups were forced to pay taxes

• Both groups were denied citizenship rights

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8.7B

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captures under the Fugitive Slave Law

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C., slave markets

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession

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8.7B

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories

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8.7C

Which of these directly resulted from the event announced in this headline?

• The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North

• Members of the U.S. Senate sought to end Black Codes in southern states

• The federal government allowed the expansion of slavery into all new western territories

• Abolitionists moved to the South to avoid living under the new law

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8.7C

Which statement describes BOTH the Free-Soil Party and the Republican Party in the mid-1800s?

• They supported actions to stop escaped slaves from entering the North

• They supported enacting safety regulations to protect factory workers

• They were against the expansion of slavery into the western territories

• They were against the establishment of American Indian reservations

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8.21A

What was the decision in the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• Dred Scott was given his freedom

• Slavery was outlawed

• African Americans are not citizens

• African Americans had the right to vote

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8.8B

Dred Scott believed he should be free because...

• he had a wife and children

• he had lived in a free territory

• Native Americans should be slaves

• Missouri was a free state

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8.8B

The Fugitive Slave Act, as a part of the Compromise of 1850, meant that...

• any Black person could be kidnapped into slavery

• any Black person could start a business

• any Black person could move to Canada if they didn't want to be slaves in the U.S.

• any Black person could vote

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8.8B

An abolitionist wants to...

• keep slavery

• end slavery

• pay slaves

• make slaves work in factories

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8.24A

The Fugitive Slave Act made abolitionists...

• fight harder

• move to Canada

• give up

• stop trying

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8.24A