1. This vocabulary word means voting rights .

1. This vocabulary word means voting rights. • A) emigrant • B) abolition • C) suffrage • D) transcendentalism

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2. The movement to end slavery was called __________. • A) suffrage • B) popular sovereignty • C) transcendentalism • D) abolition

3. What person escaped from slavery, became a well-respected speaker, traveled overseas, and published an antislavery newspaper? • A) Lloyd Garrison • B) Frederick Douglass • C) John Brown • D) Harriet Tubman

4. Why did white Southerners NOT want slaves to learn to read? • A) No colleges accepted African Americans. • B) They feared that educated slaves would rebel. • C) Reading was not a skill slaves would use. • D) There was a shortage of available books.

5. For what reason is Harriet Tubman famous? • A) She gave a speech at Seneca Falls. • B) She helped people with mental illness. • C) She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. • D) She wrote abolitionist poetry.

6. This is associated with expanded rights for women including the right to vote. • A) Sack of Lawrence • B) Kansas-Nebraska Act • C) Dred Scott case • D) Seneca Falls Convention

7. She was an antislavery reformer who also worked for women’s rights. • A) Sojourner Truth • B) Mrs. Frederick Douglass • C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton • D) Harriet Tubman

8. Why did Stanton and Mott organize the Seneca Falls Convention? • A) because male abolitionists were slow to organize a movement • B) to win for women the same rights as men • C) to form an all-female antislavery organization • D) to win women’s support for more public schools

9. What did the women’s rights movement and the abolitionist movement have in common? • A) both began in Seneca Falls • B) women made up the largest number of supporters • C) temperance workers supported both movements • D) both tried to help a group that had been denied their rights by law

10. The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for _____. • A) the residents of Kansas & Nebraska vote to decide the issue of slavery • B) the punishment of slaveholders in Kansas for attacks on antislavery settlers • C) a ban on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska • D) land in Kansas and Nebraska to be given to escaped slaves

11. What was the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin? • A) It caused the proslavery settlers to attack antislavery settlers in Kansas. • B) It convinced Northerners to support the Fugitive Slave Act. • C) White Southerners charged that the book did not portray slavery accurately. • D) It angered Northerners because it described slavery as a positive experience.

12. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? • A) William Lloyd Garrison • B) Harriet Beecher Stowe • C) Sojourner Truth • D) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

13. Stephen A. Douglas tried to win Southern support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act by allowing the issue of slavery in these territories to be settled by ______. • A) the establishment of the Free Soil Party • B) representative government • C) popular sovereignty • D) primary elections

14. How were educational opportunities limited for African Americans in the 1800’s? • A) Horace Mann set up schools for them because he believed in the power of education. • B) They had to go to special schools also attended by women. • C) African Americans had to secretly set up their own schools. • D) It was illegal in the South to teach an enslaved person to read.

15. What role did John Brown play in the slavery controversy? • A) He attacked an antislavery senator in the Senate. • B) Hemurdered several proslavery settlers in Kansas. • C) He fought for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act. • D) He introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in Congress.

16. What bill unsuccessfully attempted to ban slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico? • A) Missouri Compromise • B) Wilmot Proviso • C) Compromise of 1850 • D) Dred Scott Decision

17. What bill settled the controversy over slavery in California and the rest of the Mexican Cession? • A) Missouri Compromise • B) Dred Scott Decision • C) Compromise of 1850 • D) Wilmot Proviso

18. Which political party was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery? • A) Federalists • B) Whigs • C) Democratic • D) Free-Soil Party

19. Which law aroused great opposition and widespread disobedience in the North? • A) the Emancipation Proclamation • B) the Missouri Compromise • C) the Fugitive Slave Act • D) the Wilmot Proviso

20. Whose lawsuit to gain freedom was denied in a landmark Supreme Court decision? • A) Harriet Beecher Stow • B) Dred Scott • C) Charles Sumner • D) Stephen A. Douglas

21. How did the outbreak of the War with Mexico revive disagreements over slavery? • A) The South sent slaves to fight in the War with Mexico. • B) Northerners tried to block the admission of California as a slave state. • C) Some congressmen wanted to force Mexico to abolish slavery. • D) Northerners believed Southerners wanted to expand slavery into new lands.

22. Northerners were unhappy about the fate of which two people? • A) Dred Scott and John Brown • B) Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner • C) Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln • D) John Brown and Preston Brooks

23. Which of the following was favored by white Southerners but opposed by Northerners? • A) the Compromise of 1850 • B) the Wilmot Proviso • C) the Fugitive Slave Act • D) the Crittenden Plan

24. Why did John Brown lead an attack on Harpers Ferry? • A) to get revenge for his brother’s death • B) to gain weapons to fight the Civil War • C) to inspire slaves to fight for freedom • D) to punish those who enforced the Fugitive Slave Act

25. Which of the following made white Southerners fear that the North would abolish slavery? • A) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book won the Nobel Peace Prize. • B) The President ordered the army to free Mexican slaves. • C) Northern abolitionists helped slaves in Mexico to escape. • D) Northerners in Congress tried to pass the Wilmot Proviso.

1. This vocabulary word means voting rights .