Chapter 7 Review

What did the 13th amendment do?

• Freed all slaves

• Freed some slaves

• Gave African Americans citizenship

• Gave African American males the right to vote

What time period is the so called Reconstruction period? 

• 1910-1950

• 1865-1867 

• 1868-1899

What did the 15th amendment do?

• allowed black men and women to vote

• allowed black men to vote

• allowed women to vote

What did the 14th amendment do?

• Ensured citizenship for African Americans.

• Abolished slavery in 1865.

• Declares that states may not deny the vote to any person on the basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

Why didn't the Southern states want California to join the Union?

• California was not under the control of the United States

• It would mean there were more free states than slave states

• California was too big of a state and would control all of Congress on its own

Who came up with the Compromise of 1850?

• Roger Sherman

• Henry Clay

• Thomas Jefferson

• Frederick Douglass

To avoid serious conflict Congress passed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

• New lands would be divided into slave states and free states

• New lands would all be slave states.

• New lands would all be free states

• New lands would decide if they would be be a slave states or a free states

The Compromise of 1850 centered around what important issue of the time?

• trade

• slavery

• taxes

• foreign invaders

What were the "key facts" on which Dred Scott based his claim for freedom?

• He had a young daughter and wife to support.

• He was owned by Eliza Emerson.

• He had lived in free states before.

What was the name of the document Abraham Lincoln signed to set slaves free?

• The Voting Rights Address.

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• Dred Scott Petition for freedom.