Week 12 Quiz

The fragment "In no trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of such alleged fugitive be admitted in evidence" comes from which document?

Select one.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act, a federal statute
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, a Supreme Court decision
• The Fugitive Slave Act, a federal statute
• The Constitution's fugitive clause

The fragment "shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of the admission" comes from which document?

Select one.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act, a federal statute
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Northwest Ordinance
• The Fugitive Slave Act, a federal statute

The fragment "knowledge unfits a child to be a slave." comes from which document?

Select one.

• The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a dictated narrative
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, a Supreme Court decision
• The Fugitive Slave Act, a federal statute
• My Bondage and Freedom, Frederick Douglass's autobiography

What did the Supreme Court hold in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

Select one.

• It decided only whether one man, Dred Scott, would stay enslaved, and it left every larger question about citizenship and about the territories open for later cases
• It held that Black Americans were not citizens under the Constitution and that Congress had no authority to bar slavery from a federal territory
• It admitted Kansas as a free state and restored the Missouri Compromise line
• It held that Congress could bar slavery from any federal territory it chose

The Compromise of 1850 ended slavery in the District of Columbia.

True or false.

• True
• False

For the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, who decided about slavery in the territories each measure covered?

Select one.

• Missouri Compromise: the settlers' vote in each territory; Kansas-Nebraska Act: a line drawn by Congress
• Both measures: a line drawn by Congress
• Missouri Compromise: a line drawn by Congress; Kansas-Nebraska Act: the settlers' vote
• Both measures: the settlers' vote

Which list puts the four measures of the territories set in order, earliest to latest?

Select one.

• Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Compromise of 1850, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Kansas-Nebraska Act

For how many years did the Missouri Compromise line stand before the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed it?

Select one.

• 30 years
• 37 years
• 4 years
• 34 years

Which of these did the Compromise of 1850 do? Select every one that applies.

Select every option that applies.

• Admitted California as a free state
• Ended slavery in the District of Columbia
• Left slavery in the new territories to popular sovereignty
• Admitted Kansas as a free state
• Passed a stricter fugitive slave law

The laws of the 1850s protected a status in which a child was enslaved for life because the mother was enslaved. Which course term names that status?

Select one.

• Hereditary racial slavery
• Indentured servitude
• Popular sovereignty
• Manumission