A Dividing Nation

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

What temporarily ended the slavery debate?

• The Monroe Doctorine

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Women's Suffrage Movement

Where was the Missouri Compromise line?

• 36-30 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 46-40 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 56-50 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 66-60 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

Who was afraid of losing voting power if there were more free states than slave states?

• Southern Senators

• Northern Senators

• The President

• All of Congress

In the Compromise of 1850, the law that all escaped slaves should be returned appeased (satisfied)...

• The North

• The South

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

Daniel Webster and Henry Clay

• worked on the Compromise of 1850, so that the north and south were happy.

• ran for president in 1850, and narrowly lost to Abraham Lincoln.

• had a debate about the fugitive slave act in Virginia in 1851.

• both play guitar in Metallica.

What publication turned many Americans away from slavery?

• The Diary of Sourjourner Truth

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Missouri Compromise

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beacher Stow

• Robert E Lee

• Fredrick Douglas