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8TH GRADE AMERICAN HISTORY Slavery Sectionalism and the Road to Civil War - Part 1

Question 3
Which describes John Brown's attempt to end slavery in the United States?
A. He ran for Congress to propose antislavery laws.
B. He wrote a powerful book about runaways slaves.
C. He attacked a federal arsenal to encourage a slave revolt.
D. He made speeches and staged marches for abolition.

Question 4
Why did John Brown lead an 1859 raid on a government arsenal in Harpers Ferry?
A. to sell arms to Indian tribes in the West
B. to steal weapons for the Confederate army
C. to obtain weapons for a planned slave revolt
D. to purchase arms for the Kansas militia

Question 5
Which term describes the pre-Civil War, loose-knit organization that helped runaway slaves escape to Canada?
A. Freedmen's Bureau
B. Ku Klux Klan
C. Underground Railroad
D. Know-Nothing Party

Question 6
How did Harriet Beecher Stowe help increase opposition to slavery?
A. by donating money to abolitionist newspapers
B. by writing a powerful book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, showing the evils of slavery
C. by writing "Civil Disobedience," an essay that describes ways to undermine slavery
D. by organizing religious revivals against slavery

Question 7
Which political leader supported nullification, the idea that each state could decide which federal laws to obey?
A. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
B. Henry Clay of Kentucky
C. Stephen Douglas of Illinois
D. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts
Question 8
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts was against slavery but he agreed to compromise on the issue. Why?
A. He was willing to do almost anything to keep the United States together.
B. He wanted to appeal to the proslavery majority of voters in Massachusetts.
C. He wanted to run for president and needed southern support.
D. He was swayed by John C. Calhoun's sound arguments in favor of slavery.

Question 9
Which statement about Harriet Tubman is true?
A. She wrote a compelling novel about a slave's life on a fictional southern plantation.
B. She drafted the Seneca Falls Declaration that demanded legal equality for women.
C. She led more than 300 slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
D. She worked undercover as a journalist to expose unsafe working conditions in mills.

Question 10
Which is an accurate statement about slavery in the United States?
A. Slavery had existed for millennia, but only the United States used slaves for farm labor.
B. Laws guaranteeing their rights made it possible for runaway slaves to live openly in northern states.
C. Most slaves in the United States worked in the coal mines of Appalachia or the mills of New England.
D. Despite a well-meaning movement by whites to send freed blacks to Africa, most did not want to go.

Question 11
Which former slave became an adviser to the president and spoke out on behalf of poor people—white and black—and for the rights of women, Chinese immigrants, and Native Americans?
A. Paul Cuffe
B. Frederick Douglass
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
D. William Lloyd Garrison