Southern Slavery/Reform Test

Question 0

What amendment was the outcome of the abolitionist movement?

Answer 0

The 13th amendment

Question 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe- what did she write and what was its purpose?

Answer 1

She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its purpose was to educate and turn people against slavery

Question 2

Who wrote the Kansas/Nebraska act?

What did he want?

Answer 2

Stephen Douglas. He wanted to build a railroad that would pass through his home state and western territories

Question 3

What is the process that allows people in their territory or state to vote directly on issuer rather than have their elected representatives decide?

Answer 3

Popular sovereignty

Question 4

What was the Republican Party’s main goal?

Answer 4

To oppose and stop slavery expansion in the western territories

Question 5

Why was Bleeding Kansas called that?

Answer 5

Named for the violence between pro and anti-slavery groups

Question 6

What was the outcome of Bleeding Kansas?

Answer 6

It caused popular sovereignty

Question 7

What did John Brown do? Who supported him?

Answer 7

He led a massacre resulting in the death of proslavery men. The north supported him

Question 8

What did the south think of John Brown?

Answer 8

They were in fear of him and others like him

Question 9

Who used a walking cane to beat who?

Answer 9

Brooks used the walking cane to beat Sumner

Question 10

What was the Dred Scott case?

Answer 10

A slave sued for his freedom but he wasn’t considered a citizen.

Question 11

What caused the Democratic Party to split into two parties?

Answer 11

The Dred Scott case

Question 12

What was the outcome of the Dred Scott case?

Answer 12

The Supreme Court ruled that slaves are considered property even if they are in a free territory; they are unable to sue

Question 13

What did Lincoln insist?

Answer 13

Lincoln insisted that territories be kept free of slavery (against expansion)

Question 14

Why were the Lincoln/Douglas debates so important?

Answer 14

They were between two candidates running for president

Question 15

What did Douglas support?

Answer 15

Popular sovereignty

Question 16

What political party was Abraham Lincoln a part of?

Answer 16

The Republican Party

Question 17

What were the three results of the Second Great Awakening?

Answer 17

1. Church membership rose
2. Increased motivation for many reform movements
3. Inspired many Americans to dedicate their lives to ending slavery

Question 18

Who was the leader of the education reform?

Answer 18

Horace Mann

Question 19

What was school like before the education reform?

Answer 19

Most children attend school, only the wealthy children did

Question 20

What did Dorothy Dix represent? What reform did she lead?

Answer 20

She represented the suffering of humanity (the mentally ill treated in an inhuman manner). She lead the prison/mental hospital reform

Question 21

Who was Frederick Douglas?

Answer 21

He was an abolitionist and a former slave

Question 22

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 22

The most famous conductor on the underground railroad, and she was often referred to as the Moses of the Underground Railroad

Question 23

What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton do?

Answer 23

She supported woman’s suffrage and she helped expose women’s inequality

Question 24

What was the outcome of women’s suffrage?

Answer 24

19th amendment

Question 25

What did Henry David Thoreau support?

Answer 25

Supported living simply and no need for luxuries

Question 26

Who wrote the compromise of 1850?

Answer 26

Henry Clay

Question 27

What was the outcome of the Compromise of 1850? (2 things)

Answer 27

1. The territory from the Mexican Cession would be open to slavery (popular sovereignty)
2. Ended slave trade in Washington DC

Question 28

What was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850? What did it do?

Answer 28

The Fugitive Slave Act required citizens to capture and return runaway slaves