Prepare for the Short Answer Quiz
This practice section will prepare you to answer the short answer section on the quiz for this lesson. It is designed to help you learn and reflect on background information that will help you craft a strong answer to the quiz question.
This practice assessment will not count against your grade in the course. However, if you score a 70% or higher, you will earn extra credit on your quiz.
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Question
The new Fugitive Slave Law threatened the freedom of Americans because (choose 2):(2 points)
Responses
It restricted the ability of slaveholders to travel across state lines.
It restricted the ability of slaveholders to travel across state lines.
It required all citizens to turn in any person they knew to have escaped from slavery.
It required all citizens to turn in any person they knew to have escaped from slavery.
It put free Black people at risk of being enslaved if they were accused of being a runaway.
It put free Black people at risk of being enslaved if they were accused of being a runaway.
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Correct answers:
- It required all citizens to turn in any person they knew to have escaped from slavery.
- It put free Black people at risk of being enslaved if they were accused of being a runaway.