8th Grade Chapter 10 Test "A Nation Divided"

A person that wanted to end slavery was a(an) 

• Fugitive 
• Abolitionist 
• Northerner 

A fugitive was a 

• runaway slave
• a hard working slave
• a young slave 

If a group secedes they are 

• withdrawing from the group
• joining the group
• staying with the group 

False or misleading information to further a cause is called 

• Libel 
• Slander 
• Propaganda 

A Civil War is a war 

• against other countries 
• against opposing citizens of the same country 
• fought in a foreign country 

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Thomas Jefferson
• John Brown 
• Jefferson Davis 

"A house divided against itself cannot stand...I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the House to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided.  It will become all one thing or all the other"
What division does this quotation describe?

• Church and State
• Free states and slave holding states 
• The House of Representatives and the Senate

How did the question of admission of new states to the Union fuel the debate over slavery and states' rights?

• It threatened the balance between free states and slave states 
• It threatened to send slaves back to Africa 
• It threatened to unite the Union 

A proposed law that would have banned slavery from lands gained as a result of the Mexican-American War

• The Missouri Compromise
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Wilmot Proviso 

The Compromise of 1850 tried to please

• Only the North
• Only the South
• Both the North and South