History of the United States Quiz

The_______ was part of the Compromise of 1850. (p. 149)

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Slave Trade Act

The first Southern state to secede from the Union was (pg 155)

• Alabama

• South Carolina

• Virginia

Document issued by Lincoln declaring the freedom of all slaves in the states that had left the Union (p. 164)

Secret routes leading to the free Northern states and Canada (p. 148)

Eleven states that withdrew from the Union to form their own country (p. 158)

Political party founded on the belief that slavery should not be allowed in the United States territories (p. 151)

Speech given by President Lincoln that honored fallen soldiers from both sides of the war (p. 164)

Wrote a book about his life as a slave (p. 147)

Personally led over seventy people to freedom on the Underground Railroad (p. 148)

Slave who brought an important case to the Supreme Court (p. 150)