The Union is Challenged

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 divided slave and free states along the ___________________ River.

• Mississippi

• Hudson

• Sacramento

• Ohio

Which is not a part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine enters the Union as a free state.

• Missouri enters the union as a slave state.

• Slavery is forbidden in new states above the 36* 30’ parallel.

• California enters the union as a free state.

In 1831 ____________________ lead the largest slave rebellion in American history.

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Fredrick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

When our home state, California, entered the Union is 1850, it entered in as a _______________ state.

• neutral

• free

• slave

• republican

The Kansas- Nebraska Act cancelled the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to use ____________________________ in deciding if the state was to be free or slave.

• popular sovereignty

• civil war

• debate

• lottery

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote _______________________________, an anti slavery story first published in a newspaper.

• The Diary of Anne Frank

• Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation

• Confessions of Nat Turner

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

n 1836 Congress voted to enact a _____________________ which table all abolitionist petitions.

• ban

• gag rule

• parade

• immediate vote

Dred Scott sued his master for freedom claiming that he had spent time in a ____________ ___________________ and was therefore free.

• Ohio

• free territory

• prison cell

• foreign country

The Supreme Court ruled in Scott v Sanford that African Americans are not _____________ and therefore Scott had no right to sue. This is view as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in American history.

• human

• citizens

• to be enslaved

• aliens

What new political party arose out of anger over the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• Federalists

• Whig

• Democrats

• Republican