8. Building a Republic, 1775

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence: The Northwest Ordinance and Slavery

Choose the best answer to each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. What provisions did article 6 make for fugitive slaves?

Fugitive slaves had to obtain permission from the territorial government to stay in the Northwest Territory.

Any slave fleeing to the territory would immediately be freed.

Fugitive slaves from other states would be returned to their rightful owners.

Fugitive slaves would be officially freed after remaining in the Northwest Territory for one year.

2. According to Nathan Dane and William Grayson, how was article 6 received in Congress?

Most states supported it, but Virginia and Maryland were vociferously opposed to it.

It passed easily, with support from northern and southern states.

The northern states did not think the article went far enough.

It had little support from either the northern or the southern states.

3. What did the residents of the Northwest Territory hope to gain with their petition of 1796?

They wanted to be able to keep ownership of the slaves they already had.

They hoped the federal government would abolish slavery completely.

They wanted to be allowed to use Native Americans as laborers.

They asked the government to allow them to keep any captured fugitive slaves for themselves.

4. Which of the following did Jacob receive in exchange for his labor as an indentured servant?

Food and lodging

A small yearly salary

A large plot of land

An apprenticeship as a carpenter

5. What reason did William Grayson give for the southern states’ support of article 6?

They wanted to make sure they could get back their runaway slaves.

They hoped to protect slavery in the southern states.

They wanted to ensure that their cash crops could not be grown in the territory.

They found out that abolitionists opposed the measure and thus chose to support it.