Unit 7B Review (22-23)

What part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Fugitive Criminal Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• California-Maine Act

Which issue brought about the need for a compromise measure in 1850?

• the application of California for statehood as a free state

• The outbreak of violence in the Kansas Territory

• The need for a new Oregon Treaty

• The dispute over the California Gold Rush

What part of the Compromise of 1850 caused the most conflict between the North and the South?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Balance of power in Congress

• That California was entered as a slave state

• That Oregon became a slave state.

In 1850, _______ with its' large population as a result of the Gold Rush, applied for statehood.

• Arizona

• California

• New Mexico

• Utah

How did Harriet Tubman help slaves?

• She helped injured and sick slaves hurt their masters.
• She brought food to the slaves who were starving.
• She offered the escaped slaves a place to live.
• She helped them escape through the Underground Railroad.

Which of the following individuals was a former slave who published a newspaper titled “The North Star” which spoke about the evils of slavery?

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman

How did the Underground Railroad help slaves to escape to freedom?

• A train took slaves north to Canada

• Slaves were able to hide in box cars and head out west

• Conductors on trains led slaves to free land

• It was a series of paths, safe houses, and secret hiding places that helped the slaves escape.

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.
• Someone who wants to end voting for slaves.
• Someone who doesn't want to work with slaves.
• Someone who wants to never wear jeans.

Abolitionists believed slavery ___.

• was morally wrong

• was great for us

• Would stay here forever

• would eventually fade out

A series of hiding places where those who were escaping slavery traveled.

• conductor

• suffrage

• abolition

• underground railroad