PRACTICE QUIZ || "The Path to Civil War"

What was main goal of the Free-Soil Party?

• to prevent settlement in new territories and states
• to open new states and territories for settlement
• to expand slavery into new territories and states
• to keep slavery out of new territories and states

What was one provision of the Compromise of 1850?

• It admitted California as a free state.
• It decided all conflicts about slavery.
• It admitted California as a slave state.
• It prohibited slavery in territories won from Mexico.

How did the Fugitive Slave Act discourage people from helping enslaved people?

• People faced harsh penalties.
• People agreed with the law.
• People respected the federal marshals.
• People did not agree with the law, but they followed it.

What could federal marshals do under the Fugitive Slave Act?

• free enslaved people who made it to a free state
• confront slave catchers and free enslaved people from jail
• collect rewards offered for escaped enslaved people
• force ordinary citizens to help capture enslaved people

Which event prompted John Brown’s attack on the Pottawatomie Creek settlement?

• the passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• the attack on Senator Charles Sumner
• the violent proslavery raid in Lawrence, Kansas
• the contested elections of the Free-Soil Party

What was the main obstacle to Stephen A.Douglas's proposed Chicago-San Francisco railroad?

• It would be far too expensive to build.
• The territory was not organized into states.
• Settlers in the territory objected to a railroad.
• The territory between the cities was dangerous.

In addition to creating two new states, what else did Kansas-Nebraska Act call for?

• creating incentives for settlers to move west
• ending the long-standing ban on slavery in the North
• building a railroad between Chicago and San Francisco
• establishing one new slave state and one new free state

What is popular sovereignty?

• making territories into states
• bringing new voters into a state or territory
• electing the president of the United States
• allowing residents to decide issues by voting

Why was the territory called "Bleeding Kansas"?

• The territory's population was decreasing sharply.
• The territory's land contained acres of red soil.
• The territory included former enslaved people.
• The territory had several violent incidents.

What reason did the judge in the Dred Scott case give for ruling that “members of the negro African race” did not have a right to sue?

• They were not allowed into courthouses.
• They were not actually U.S. citizens.
• Few African Americans could read.
• They were not allowed to vote.