A Dividing Nation

​A Dividing Nation

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Multiple Choice

FROM FRIDAY'S LESSON:

A Missouri slave named Dred Scott traveled with his owner to Wisconsin, where slavery was _____________. When he returned to Missouri, Scott went to court, arguing that his stay in Wisconsin had made him a free man.

• banned

• allowed

• encouraged

• discouraged

Multiple Choice

FROM FRIDAY'S LESSON:

On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Taney delivered the decision. By a vote of seven to two, the Court decided that Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court because he was not a ___________,

• person

• slave

• citizen

• immigrant

Multiple Choice

FROM FRIDAY'S LESSON:

He could never become an American citizen because he was an __________ ___________, whether slave or free.

• married man

• Northern slave

• Southern slave

• African-American

Multiple Choice

FROM FRIDAY'S LESSON:

How did the public react to the Dred Scott decision?

• People were pleased and they agreed with the decision.

• People were angry and it moved the abolitionist movement forward.

• People were sad and they gave up.

• People were passive and didn't care.

Multiple Choice

QUESTION:

What compromise did the Kansas-Nebraska Act cancel?

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Three-Fifth's Compromise

Multiple Choice

QUESTION:

The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed the new territories to use the policy of _____________ ________________ to determine if they would be free or slave states. What did the Kansas-Nebraska

• general consensus

• manifest destiny

• federal law

• popular sovereignty

Multiple Choice

QUESTION:

The Kansas-Nebraska act further divided the nation because Northerners envisioned slavery _______________  throughout the western territories; Southerners tried to calm Northerners’ fears by saying Kansas did not have the climate to ________ slave labor.

• spreading; suited

• limiting; fertile

• stopping; use

• expanding; increase

Multiple Choice

QUESTION:

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, _____________ poured into Kansas. Some settlers moved to Kansas either to _____________ or to _____________ slavery.

• Northerners; promote; end

• settlers; support; oppose

• abolitionists; arm; kill

• Southerners; end; promote

Multiple Choice

QUESTION:

The South sent their young men to Kansas; Northern abolitionists raised money to send ___________ to antislavery settlers. Soon, Kansas had two competing ___________ in the territory, one for slavery and one against it.

• food; factions

• weapons; factions

• money; missions

• money; factions

Multiple Choice

QUESTION:

What two notable acts of violence occurred after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed?

• Violence in Congress and the killing of slaves

• The killing of abolitionists and the Raid on Kansas

• The Raid on Kansas and Violence in Congress

• The Raid on Congress and Violence in Kansas